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The Incredibly Dangerous Barack Obama

A while back I sent an email to a friend and fellow Kossack expressing my concerns about Barack Obama. This is what it said:"Obama has become code for anything and everything people hope to accomplish....

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Nixon's Wet Dream

One of the most important aspects of this whole FISA mess has been largely overlooked. That is that it is not just about privacy. Or principle.It is about political power.The power of the Executive to...

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People Power vs. Getting Democrats Elected

A commenter said that there are consequences to us FISA fanatics (my term), making fun of Democrats.What are those consequences exactly? Seriously. For the last 2 years we've had the House and the...

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Obama's Taken His Lumps - Now For Some Perspective

You won't find anyone here who's been more critical of the FISA capitulation than I. I did my best to try to incite a riot for a week - and got troll rated for it plenty.I had hoped that we could...

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History: How the US Government Was Overthrown In Three Easy Steps

So what if I told you that the powers of financial capitalism (bankers etc.), had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands, able to dominate...

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What a Democrat Sounds Like - Bill Moyers Interviews Fritz Hollings

Ah, the good old days before our party was bought and sold to the highest corporate bidders (No, I don't mean Obama). Listening to this interview on Bill Moyers' Journal harkened me back to the days...

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Pssst: You Suck

I won't name names. But this is a shoutout to all you perfect people, and Dr Phils, and relationship experts, and psychics who think they know all about John Edwards'"secret lust for power":You Suck.

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This Is No Longer Obama Vs. McCain

John McCain is an embarrassment. I don't think anyone would have predicted he would be such a horrible campaigner. He's like Fred Thompson redux.His brain can't keep up with the heavy information load...

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Oh Media Whore, I Love You

My favorite corporate media whore was so special tonight. He asked a really hard question from those asshole people. I get so sad because my media whore usually doesn't have time to ask the really hard...

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World War III and Nancy Pelosi

I  know there's an election going on, and people are caught up in the day to day of the campaign. But something is occurring that is way too important to ignore: Our world has just been thrust into the...

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Hunter's 'Obama, Please Don't Suck' Now a Song and Music Video

So after reading Hunter's poem, A Plea To That Guy At The Podium, last night, I thought it would be fun to put it into a little folk song in the tradition of Dylan or Guthrie with a little Coen...

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Making Barack Obama Disappear

If Barack Obama had come out and read the phone book at last week's Democratic convention, it would have been an historical event. But Obama did something amazing last Thursday and what he actually...

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Still Want to Play Nice Kos?

So the Republicans have learned a new trick under the tutelage of Karl Rove these last few years. Say anything you want to. It doesn't matter if you lie through your teeth because the vast majority of...

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McCain Won - Barely

Barack Obama brought a pillow to a knife fight. He allowed himself to be bullied. He got jabs in. But he allowed McCain to set the terms of the debate.When will Democrats learn that there is no...

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McCain: "I Don't Know What's Going To Happen"

We normally call this foresight. McCain's lack of it marks his life.He lacked the foresight to predict the fiasco in Iraq.He lacked the foresight to predict the failure in Afghanistan.He lacked the...

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PLEASE, Get Your Facts Straight On ACORN

It's bad enough having to endure the lies and disinformation emanating from the corporate news, right wing media, and the McCain campaign. But there's no excuse for people on Daily Kos to fall for it....

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Shockingly Leaves the Farm

I've been fascinated by the evolution of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges (Not to be mistaken for the bloviating drunk Christopher Hitchens). This is a guy who's been doing hard...

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I Got Your Un-American Right Here

For too long, the Rabid Right has gotten away with calling us un-American, all the while, displaying nothing but contempt for everything America stands for. Now is the time to fight back.I first became...

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Behold: FiveThirtyEight's Very Blue America

So I have a background in advertising, including the psychology of marketing. And I can tell you unequivocally that the maps of the United States that the media uses showing red and blue states have...

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Sorry If This Isn't What You Want To Hear

We are never going to get fundamental change, at least not the change we need and want, in this media environment.People here continue to underestimate the power of the Establishment media's Public...

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This is the Beginning of the Bush Depression - $2 Trillion Credit Lines to be...

Prepare to be afraid.Last week I was amused to see a debate on CNBC about whether we were in a depression or not. It is especially amusing now that we have been "officially" informed that we are in a...

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If You're Going to Defend Obama, Do It Right

Obama's been taking a lot of hits lately, here and elsewhere, for his cabinet appointments. And it has become clear to me that few are prepared to defend these decisions credibly and often end up...

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SciFri: How Einstein Discovered Time Travel

Back at the beginning of the 20th Century, there was a problem. A mundane problem perhaps, but as you will see, it led to the most revolutionary  discovery in the history of science - changing the way...

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Obama Campaign Hack Selling Snake Oil

In 'A Message to Obama's Progressive Critics', a screed intended to address the widespread concern among the progressive movement over Obama's staff picks, Steve Hildebrand succeeds only in making my...

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History: The Failure of the Great Gobalist Vision

There is no future in globalization. At least not the kind of globalization that we've seen emerge for the last 50 years.One component of the great globalist vision was that the world would shrink with...

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UPDATED w video - Barack Obama's Historic Speech On the Economy

I am posting the transcript to Obama's historic speech on the Economy. Today he introduced his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. I am refraining from commenting because I think Obama should have...

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George Bush's Very Successful Presidency - No, Seriously

I always like to say our health care system is not broken, it's working perfectly. Just not for us. And it is true. The American health care system is doing exactly what it was designed to do - make a...

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Why Are You Here

I would love to hear about what brought you to this site and what you want to accomplish by writing here. This is my brief story.I began my political journey in the environmental movement. Since I was...

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The Reincarnation of George W Bush

Mcjoan has an excellent piece on the front page about how the big post-Watergate reform agenda petered out. Via digby, she cites an excerpt from a book by Kathryn S. Olmsted, Challenging the Secret...

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The Dead Horse and Daily Kos

Many years ago I had taken a cab from the New Orleans airport to the French Quarter. I had a time share and went every year for Halloween. Very fun. So I had had a few drinks on the plane and found...

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How the Bankers Stole America

So what if I told you that the powers of financial capitalism (bankers etc.), had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands, able to dominate...

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Those Rockets Matter

I keep seeing people here try to play down the firing of rockets by Hamas into the civilian population of Israel. Usually, they are not trying to dismiss them as completely harmless. But in their...

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Is Rachel Maddow Right? Are the Dems Really Screwing the Stimulus Package?

Forgive me for being out of the loop lately on the whole Democratic stimulus package. I've been doing the whole, you know, life thing. But I just saw Rachel Maddow's show and I'm in shock. Did she make...

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Sorry, But the Democrats Have Failed Again

I'm literally sick to my stomach. I have been for a few days now. I know this will be unpopular among some here. But I don't care. I see very few facing the reality of what has happened with the...

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A Parable

There was this bus see. And all the people on the bus had started to realize that it wasn't headed for a cliff. It was headed to Hell. The Promised Land was north, and the bus always seemed to end up...

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It Finally Happened

For decades, space experts have worried that a speeding bit of orbital debris might one day smash a large spacecraft into hundreds of pieces and start a chain reaction, a slow cascade of collisions...

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Counterpoint: We Don't Need a Truth Commission

Truth Commissions: Where investigations go to die.Senator Patrick Leahy has proposed a Truth Commission to investigate the crimes of the Bush administration. While this may sound appealing on the...

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-------- BREAKING ---------   Bill Clinton Redux

I thought I had been transferred back to 1993. People may forget that the economy was disastrous then too, though not cataclysmic like now. And just like Obama did tonight, Clinton offered a neoliberal...

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Nate Silver Vs. Progressives

Some of you may know that there's been a bit of a dust up lately between Nate Silver of 538 and David Sirota and, somewhat, Open Left's Chris Bowers. I have no interest in revisiting that drama.But...

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Unbelievable: Las Vegas Casinos Pay People to Lose

Just when you thought you'd seen everything.

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Jim Cramer Uses CNBC to Manipulate Stocks

I've been waiting for a good time to bring this story to Daily Kos and, since it's CNBC day (or week hopefully), I figured now would be a good time.By now, everyone should have heard about the ongoing...

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Gordon Brown's New World Order

So an amazing little story was leaked out this week. Turns out that a lot of the taxpayer money going to AIG is actually going to save European banks. The implications that US taxpayers are bailing out...

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Obama Critics Just Like My Wife

So about a year ago, I was watching TV. It was late at night and one of those information shows was on about how you can start your own alpaca farm. I never watch those things but this time, it just...

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Michelle and the Queen - As Ususal, Real Story Goes Unnoticed

I would rather not have to point this out. There are, after all, real problems going on. But it simply amazes me how so many in the media can be so utterly devoid of awareness.By now, the story of...

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William K Black Responds To Daily Kos Critics

I contacted Bill Black this weekend in the midst of the flame up over his statements on Bill Moyers Journal that the Obama administration, just like the Bush administration before, is violating the law...

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Olbermann Smacks Down Obama's Loss of Credibility

For those who don't know, or don't want to know, the Obama Justice Department made a most disappointing move late last Friday - late so as to circumvent the press in what is called a Friday news dump -...

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A Short Story

Five teenagers are in a car. It's a dark, rainy, Friday night and the music is loud as they cruise along to their destination. They're heading to an old abandoned Mill on the far outskirts of town...

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Time to Tell the Truth About Global Warming

I have a confession to make. I've been lying about global warming for years. You see, I have known for over a decade that we were long past the "tipping point" for preventing catastrophic climate...

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Buying Brand Obama

This is one of the most powerful and important essays I've ever read. Whith special thanks to Truthdig, I am posting it here in its entirety. Visit Truthdig to read more of Chris Hedges and other...

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The Conspiracy Theorist Label

The conspiracy theorist label is the cleverest tool the conspirators have come up with to deter the people from investigating and questioning their (the people's) own government.The truth is, the...

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