Arnold To Declare Special Election On Monday June 13th
I've just received word that the Goverator of California, Herr Arnold, will declare a special election for Tuesday, Novemenber 8th, 2005. We've been expecting this for quite some time now, and now,...
View ArticleAfter CAFTA: Who Will Run Against Diane Feinstein
As just appeared on the front page, the US Senate voted today to approve CAFTA. This in itself is a problem. But worse, the following Democrats voted for this bill. They are:Bingaman (D-NM)Cantwell...
View ArticleFixing McCain-Feingold
For years, many of us fought for what's now known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)-- or as most people call it, McCain-Feingold. It wasn't much of a reform, but many of us thought that any...
View ArticleSICKO: Unmasking The Industry Puppeteers
Cross-posted at MyDDLithiumCola did a great diary this morning on Michael Moore's SICKO, and an example of some of the kinds of news articles we're seeing, and likely to keep seeing. If you haven't...
View ArticleDown With The King
Enough of Bush's Tories and Corporate Cronies. Independence Day is here, and it is incumbent upon us all to declare our Liberty:When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to...
View ArticleRep. Conyers Takes On The Insurance Companies
I just got this from the California Nurses Association, the kick-butt union that has been working with Michael Moore to promote SiCKO, and the idea of universal, single payer health care for America:If...
View ArticleWhat Digby Said
Digby, the Sage Of Santa Monica, has seen Michael Moore's SiCKO, and she is mad as hell: First of all, it made me cry and a Michael Moore film has never made cry before. I've laughed and cheered and...
View ArticleSpeaking with a forked tongue on the News Hour
I've just viewed tonight's PBS Newshour, and I can't say I'm happy about it.One of tonight's segments was Congress Eyes Expanding Children's Health Insurance. The segment is described on the PBS...
View ArticleACTION: Is California Getting Enough National Guard?
Kossacks,I could use a bit of help trying to answer a question: is the war in Iraq preventing the National Guard from doing what's needed now in Southern California? I don't know the answer, since I...
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Stealing California On Halloween
They came from Giuliani....It's Halloween, and Count Giuliani's undead minions are wandering the streets of Santa Cruz County.Well, they're not exactly the undead. In fact they are very much alive....
View ArticleObama and the Populist "Threat"
As DHinMI points out in his front page diary (Repub Congressman Diagnoses GOP Illness, Declares Them Terminal), Tom Davis, former head of the GOP congressional campaign, has done a very interesting...
View ArticleHow *Not* To Make Friends And Influence People (Updated!)
Updated: with less, um, graphic photosThe last week has not been the most fun we've had around here in Kos-ville. People are of two minds about how our candidate Barack handled the FISA issue. I'm not...
View ArticleBrian Of Nazareth
Because like everyone else tonight, I don't want to be left out either, because like everyone else, I AM AN INDIVIDUALYou may have not voted right on FISA, but I'm still supporting you.Brian -- you rock.
View ArticleUppity -- From Karl Rove's Thesaurus
Jake Tapper, a political reporter for ABC News, did a piece yesterday that got some deserved criticism. He wrote, among other things: I've seen racism in campaigns before -- I've seen it against Obama...
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The GOP Horror Show: ideological radicalism and malfeasance edition
Joe Klein, as we're increasingly seeing, has signed a Wheaties endorsement deal and fallen off the Straight Talk Express. Big time. Via Kevin Drumm's spiffy new digs at Mother Jones, we get the...
View Article"A struggle we seem to be losing"
Paul Krugman has a very good, if scary column for Monday's New York Times. Here's the money quote: The current U.S. financial crisis bears a strong resemblance to the crisis that hit Japan at the end...
View ArticleAnd now for something completely different
This will be a relatively short diary, but since I don't think this has come up around here yet: the identity of The Eleventh Doctor has just been revealed.So what the hell am I talking about?I'm...
View ArticleWho knew David Brooks could be right?
Generally speaking, there's no body more risible on the New York Times than David "Bobo" Brooks. A neocon and a movement conservative, he's hitched himself to every bad cause the Bush Administration...
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I'll be back... with the cash
It's now official. The Late, Great State of California is now officially out of money, and all we have left are theseIt's really true, sadly enough. California is reduced as of today to paying its...
View ArticlePatriotism With A Liberal Heart
It's less chic to make this criticism than it once was, but back in the Vietnam era, displays of patriotism lost their luster for many Americans. Patriotism got mixed up with the worship of using...
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