Preview of the Attack on Health Care Reform
It didn't take long. Yesterday's NY Times had a column by David Leonhardt called Free Lunch on Health? Think AgainEssentially, this is a hit piece on the idea of reforming the way Americans pay for...
View ArticleFISA Apoligist Op-Ed in Today's NY Times
An op-ed in today's NY Times argues that there is nothing at all wrong with the warrentless wiretapping newly authorized by the extensions of FISA. The Warrantless Debate Over Wiretapping
View ArticleRebuilding the Big Easy -- Follow the Money
It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that post-Katrina recovery and rebuilding in New Orleans is going badly. The twin goals of the Bush-Cheney cabal -- whether in Iraq or the U.S. Gulf Coast -- have...
View ArticleHey, I Can Write A Diary About Tasers, Too
I've had enough of the diaries about the incident at a John Kerry speech at the University of Florida. Personally, I think the guy at UF was either disturbed or a provacateur who deliberately set out...
View ArticleWeather Update
Time for a break from the Palindrome?Just because Gustav more or less spared New Orleans, don't forget that we're going into the peak of hurricane season. Currently there are three more tropical...
View ArticleGovernment Does Not Run Government-Run Healthcare Insurance
(or, Don’t Worry About The Insurance Industry, It Will Continue To Profit No Matter What)The main reason supporting the inclusion of a public option as part of any healthcare reform is that doing so...
View ArticleFor the fact-based members of this community
Although I've frequently seen DKos members self-described as "fact based" (this is usually part of a derogatory comparison with right-wing ideologues), the amount of sheer speculation, assumption, and...
View ArticleWhat the US Military Knows That Politicians Don’t
It’s no secret that most Tea Baggers, many Republicans, and even some Democrats don’t believe that human activity has caused, and is increasingly causing, the Earth’s climate to change.Apparently,...
View ArticleKilling Granny in Wisconsin
By now, the entire country knows how Governor Scott Walker and his Republican legislature have paid back their wealthy right wing donors by stripping government employees of virtually all collective...
View ArticleWho is ALEC Screwing Now?
No, not Alec Baldwin.ALEC is the acronym for the semi-secretive American Legislative Executive Council. This self-styled “nonpartisan membership association for conservative state lawmakers who share...
View ArticleThings You Should Know About Enrolling In Social Security & Medicare
The following is a expanded version of a comment I made in a recent diary. A couple of commenters suggested that I “post” it, so here we are.I’m not sure of DKos demographics, but I suspect there...
View ArticleBenghazi One Year Later
Other than a fizzled rally yesterday, we haven’t heard much about Benghazi! from the usual suspects. So what’s been going on?
View ArticleMad As Hell In Detroit
You may or may not have been following the Republican destruction of democracy in Michigan, and especially the efforts by the Republican-appointed "Emergency Manager" to sell off the assets of the...
View ArticleNews Update: Sandy Hook Suit Not Dismissed
Just hours before tonight’s Clinton-Sanders debate, a Connecticut State judge has denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit by the families of the Sandy Hook victims against the manufacturer of...
View ArticleUnsurprising News of the Day: San Bernardino iPhone Has "Nothing of Real...
CBS news reports that a “law enforcement source” says that iPhone belonging to San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook contains “nothing of real significance.”After Apple refused to compromise the...
View ArticleRussia Announces Ceasefire in Syria -- Trump Can Participate In Talks, But...
Reuters:Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire between Syrian opposition groups and the Syrian government starting at midnight on Thursday.The parties were also prepared to start peace...
View Article35 Dead in Istanbul Nightclub Attack
www.bbc.com/...One or two gunmen, reportedly dressed in Santa costumes, struck Istanbul's Reina nightclub on New Year's Eve, killing at least 35 people and injuring at least another 45.Reports say that...
View ArticleTrump Isn't As Dumb As You'd Like To Think
Two observations from this afternoon’s news conference with Abe and Trump.First of all, despite much speculation to the contrary, it’s pretty certain that Trump can read. He’s not very fluent, but...
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Fly The Friendly Skies And You Might Get Flambéed
Not content with violently dragging a passenger off a plane, pushing a 71-year-old passenger to the floor, attacking a symphony violinist who, relying on United’s written policy, dared to attempt to...
View ArticleUS Embassy in Montenegro Attacked
An apparent suicide bomber threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, into the U.S. Embassy compound in Podgorica, Montenegro, just before midnight, Wednesday February 21, 2018. The attacker...
View ArticleRussia Won
That’s the headline on an article by Jane Meyer in the October 1, 2018, edition of The New Yorker.In the article, Meyer discusses a new book: “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a...
View ArticleLighten Up, Francis (FBI Report Edition)
This article by Alexandra Petri at the Washington Post offers a bit of relief to the current stress.The FBI was very easy to reach, and the report has been quite easy to read“Even before the...
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What's Wrong With This Picture?
I just heard Ali Velshi on MSNBC cover a story about the USNS Comfort helping Venezuelans and Colombians. The same story was reported by the AP a day or so ago, despite the caption in the photo that...
View ArticleWith All Deliberate Speed
“With all deliberate speed” is the phrase Chief Justice Earl Warren used in Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294, 301 (1955) to describe how quickly school desegregation ought to be accomplished....
View ArticleSheldon Whitehouse: "SCOTUS is not well"
Just a brief note to recommend a recent Think Progress piece: “Five Democratic senators just declared all-out war on the Supreme Court.”Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Richard...
View ArticleWaPo: Kevin McAleenan out as Acting DHS Secretary
And down goes another one.Washington Post reports that Kevin McAleenan, the acting Secretary of DHS has resigned after becoming “increasingly frustrated” with the Trumpistas in his...
View ArticleLying Liars and Their Coronavirus Lies
From the Politico Playbook:YOU’D BE FORGIVEN, in this time of trouble and distress,for wondering whether your federal government has a handle on this pandemic, or if it’s a complete and utter train...
View ArticleThe Latest Case of Voter Fraud: Donald J. Trump
On March 17, 2020, Florida held its Presidential preference primary election. On the Democratic side, Joe Biden beat Bernie Sanders 62% to 23%. On the Republican side, not surprisingly, Donald Trump...
View ArticleAnother Police Shooting
Today, Utah police repeatedly shot a 13-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome. For no good reason. He happened to not be Black, but that didn’t save him....
View ArticleLongtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA
This story seems to have slipped under the wire.NPR reports that “David Legates, a University of Delaware professor of climatology who has spent much of his career questioning basic tenets of climate...
View ArticleThe Lincoln Project Will Not Be Intimidated
Last Friday, a DK Diary described the Lincoln Project’s one-word reply to the letter from Marc Kasowitz threatening a suit for “enormous compensatory and punitive damages” unless the Times Square...
View ArticleBiden Picks Merrick Garland As AG
Not the best pick, IMO, and I’m surprised that he’s willing to give up his lifetime tenure for a temp job.www.kold.com/...
View ArticleCriminal Charges From The Insurrection
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.Lawfare is compiling the list of criminal cases in the U.S. District Court for D.C. and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that...
View ArticleThere's No Toilet Tank In The Bathroom
Louie Louie, oh noYou gotta goAye-yi-yi-yi, I saidLouie Louie, oh babyYou gotta goOkay, let's give it to 'em, right now!Louie Gohmert fined $5000 for bypassing a metal detector."I explained to the...
View ArticleCan You Say "Poison Pill"?
Fresh from his success in stalling debate on the America Rescue Plan, Joe Manchin (Dickish-WV) warns that he’ll pull a similar stunt with respect to infrastructure.Manchin said that the expected...
View ArticleChauvin's Potential Sentence
The jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all three charges that had been brought against him: second-degree murder (“unintentional felony murder”), third-degree murder (“depraved heart”), and...
View ArticleHis Name Was RICO ...
After Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in connection with Trump hush-money payoffs, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance began an investigation into possible criminal charges related to those payoffsThen...
View ArticleSick Gun News Of The Day
In a surprising demonstration of unanimity, the families of the children and teachers murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School agree that some gun nuts are just … nuts.James Fetzer is a Second...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Give $$ To the DNC, DCCC, or the DSCC – And Neither Should You
Who would you vote for as your Member of Congress?Candidate G grew up and lived in your state (although not in your district), studied computer science at Stanford University, worked as a software...
View ArticleIt's Not The Crime, It's The Cover-up
One of the statutes used as a basis for the search warrant of Mar-a-Logo is 18 U.S.C. § 1519 — Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy.Whoever...
View ArticleLindsey Loses Again
AP: Judge again denies Graham’s effort to skirt Georgia subpoenaA federal judge on Thursday ruled that constitutional protections don’t shield U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from testifying before a special...
View ArticleTrump Asks Clarence Thomas To Throw Out 11th Circuit Order
TFG has filed an “Application” asking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to vacate the order of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that had stayed Judge Aileen Cannon’s injunction concerning the...
View ArticleOops! He Did It Again!
Just a short news snippet from the MaddowBlog and the DOJ.Texas man Jesse Benton didn’t know when to quit.Benton has been a GOP “political consultant” since around 2008, working for the odious Pauls,...
View ArticleTime To Revive An Old "Conservative" Slogan
At a poorly-attended rally in New Hampshire yesterday, Trump finally admitted that he’s not “America First,” after all."I could have been relaxing at Mar-a-Lago or in the south of France, which I would...
View ArticlePassing The Time Until The Shoe Drops In Fulton County
Much of the media, including numerous authors here on Daily Kos, have been publishing stories speculating about what Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis is going to do. How many defendants will be indicted?...
View ArticleHow The Mighty Have Fallen
Kim Jong-un and Putin Plan to Meet in Russia to Discuss WeaponsNY Times – Sept. 4, 2023, 2:40 p.m. EDTKim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, plans to travel to Russia this month to meet with President...
View ArticleNext Up At Bat: It's Shirtsleeves Gym J.
House Republicans on Friday nominated Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the hard-right Republican and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to be their next speaker, after he turned back a challenge...
View ArticleEducatin' with Satan
Fighting back against religious zealots in a Connecticut elementary school:Christian and satanist organizations that sponsor after-school clubs throughout the nation — the latter often swooping in to...
View ArticleTrump Gag Order Reinstated In New York Case
A four-judge panel in the New York Appellate Division, First Judicial District, has reinstated the gag order barring Trump and his lawyers from posting, emailing, or speaking about the court and its...
View ArticleSweden Is In NATO
Hungary’s Parliament Approves Sweden’s NATO Bid After StallingHungary’s Parliament voted on Monday to approve Sweden as a new member of NATO, allowing the Nordic country to clear a final hurdle that...
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