Three More Days to Leave it ALL on the Road
(Please excuse this re-post from yesterday; the site went down almost as soon as I hit publish!) Three days is all the time we have left between now and the election, three more days to GO every last V...
View ArticleDiary That Needs to be Rec'd
http://www.dailykos.com/...that diary needs to sit atop the rec list all day today. i can think of just about no story that could be as important as this info...
View ArticlePolling Place Info, Registration Check, Numbers for Election Fraud Assistance
Hopefully with Steven D's forgiveness, I am re-posting his diary from earlier, because really, seriously...there is no subject matter more important or more deserving prominence today of all days....
View ArticleSince We're Doing the Time Warp (again), Let's Review Some Other Years-old...
Okay, wow. If current headlines are any indication, one would think we were right back at the grand bargain hoopla of yore, as though we'd entered a wormhole or something. So, in the spirit of "when...
View Article"Regardless of the Politics"
President Obama made this statement at his presser following the Newtown shooting yesterday:And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this,...
View ArticleSolutions We Can All Agree On
The cold, cold comfort coming out of Newtown is that at least the country seems a little more ready and willing to address the question of (gun) violence. It's a national dialogue that's been a long...
View ArticleThe Thing About Social Security
We've heard it from all the major pols: Social Security does not contribute to the deficit. So why is it even being mentioned in grand bargain-type talks? That would be because Social Security has a...
View ArticleGun Control vs Social Security
How's that for a sacred cow cage match, hey? But why am I even putting them in the same sentence, let alone presenting them as in direct conflict with one another?Well, in a word, it's about...
View ArticleGetting Specific on Gun Control
Oy vey...the gun debate is going to make HCR look like a church picnic. By virtue of the technical and constitutional questions involved, there are few issues in which clarity of purpose and precision...
View ArticleDon't Support Komen This Mother's Day
As you all know, Mother's Day is coming up; it will be here May 12th. Yay moms! And yay flowers! But since it's "Boo Komen!," one must be careful in choosing their Mother's Day bouquets. To wit,...
View ArticleR.I.P. Ray Manzarek
Sad, sad day today. On top of all the tornado devastation, Ray Manzarek has passed away. : (
View ArticleThings (besides new front pagers) that are bad for Daily Kos
Allow me, please, to present to you, in no particular order, some things that are not healthy for the Daily Kos community.Thing the first: not being factual. For example, here is the verbatim quote...
View ArticleMy take on Oregon's Ballot Measures
I love that Oregon has a referendum process whereby we the people get to vote on proposed laws.This year is especially exciting because we get to vote to legalize weed! Again. If the same passle of...
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