Live Blogging/Streaming From Denver: Early Vote for Change Rally
How The West Will Be WON!Returning to the campaign trail after visiting his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, Barack had three Early Vote for Change Rallies yesterday: two in Nevada, one each in Reno and...
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He Went To Indiana, Instead - 11/04/2008
During the last week of the presidential contest, there was a lot of interest as to which red states Barack Obama would visit. Speculation ran wild as the polls tightened in Georgia, North Dakota,...
View ArticleBuyer's Remorse? Who Would You Vote for Today? (w/ Poll)
Though I have been an Obama-for-prez supporter since the night of July 27, 2004, his "compromisin ways" are really becoming a big turn-off. Not that I was unaware that being compliant a consensus...
View ArticleObama to Speak to Congressional Black Caucus
President Obama is scheduled to speak tonight at the Congressional Black Caucus's 39th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) Phoenix Awards dinner. As of yesterday, Mr Obama was considered the special...
View ArticleI Thought It Was Obama's Fault. I Was Wrong
Proximate Cause: An act from which an injury results as a natural, direct, uninterrupted consequence and without which the injury would not have occurred.Proximate cause is the primary cause of an...
View ArticleFracking Contamination: Proven Decades Ago?
Since the release of the film documentary GASSLAND, by Josh Fox, the term fracking has become widely known. Yet the process of fracking, or, hydraulic fracturing, has been used since 1947 to extract...
View ArticleFinally! The Bulls Are Leaving the China Shoppe
Military operations in Iraq have, finally, ended (officially,that is) and the "unpopular conflict" is,finally, over. For us. Well, maybe not really over, even for us. But officially, it's over. Anyway,...
View ArticleNewtmentum: It Ain't Just A Southern Thang
Public Policy Polling has some "good" news for the Newtster - and it has nothing to do with Florida. Nothing directly, anyway. It seems that in the far-north state of Minnesota, Gingrich is gonna kick...
View ArticleJanuary 27th: National Downwinders Day
On January 27, 1951, the first nuclear weapons test at the Nevada Proving Grounds took place. Also known as the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and located just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the 1,350...
View ArticleACA, ACO's and the End of the Health Insurance Industry
One of the major complaints that progressives had regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka ObamaCares) is that it did little to limit the control of the health insurance industry on the health...
View ArticleSweetHearts of the GOP
I was kind of saddened by the recent Quinnipiac Poll. Saddened by its inference that if the election where held today, President Obama would beat Romney by only 4 points (46-42). As the poll was...
View ArticleBREAKING: Fed Judge - NYPD Has "Little Regard for Constitutional Rights"
Step-by-step, the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactic will be ended. Today, a major step was taken by a federal judge in NYC to ensure that this reprehensible policing "strategy" will be stopped - hopefully...
View ArticleStop & Frisk Kabuki: Bloomberg's & Kelley's Epic Fail
A day after being excoriated by Federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin for NYPD's “facially unlawful stops” and “deeply troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental constitutional rights”, PD...
View ArticleStop & Frisk: Bloomberg's Plan to Criminalize Minority Males?
* Note *Between the time I checked to see if anyone had diaried this and the time I finish mine, Mets102 published an excellent diary covering this topic; however, I cannot let my "hard" work go to...
View ArticleSound Of Silence - A Photo Diary of the Silent March Against Stop & Frisk
I attended the Silent March to End Stop and Frisk in New York City yesterday. The impact of the March was louder than a million voices chanting down Babylon.The silence of the March reflected the...
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So You Thought It Was Democrats Who Were Committing Suicide
So the RepubliKlans are turning tail and running home.Their Plan B has aborted any fantasy they had that, somehow, they were gonna win the Fiscal Curb/Austerity Bomb war on the peeps of the USoA.Once...
View ArticleHere's Your Minuscule Terrorist Threat
Minuscule terrorist threat? Well that's how one well-respected DailyKos diarist described the threat the civilized peoples of the world face from zealots who wrap themselves in the guise of being...
View ArticleBetween al-Qaeda and the NSA
between al-Qaeda and the NSA my life's in jeopardy my liberty is being whittled away one wants me dead the other wants me deaf dumb and blind while it riffles through my life looking for a tie that...
View ArticleNeither Liberty Nor Security: A Fractured Continuum
In 1755, Ben Franklin wrote: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."There's a continuum implied by this statement, with...
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No, The Republicans Have NOT Lost Their Base
I have a simple dictum when it comes to politics:Don't tell me what you believe. Tell me who you vote for, and I'll tell you what you believe {Yea, I know. A rip-off of MB's tagline. May he have mercy...
View Article"Shoot The N*****": TeaBigotry Run Amok
Want to get visited by your local smiling Secret Service agents? Well, if you do, just post a picture of President Obama on your Facebook page with the caption "Shoot the [N-word]" and before you know...
View ArticleA Rotten Apple From A Toxic Tree
Tex-ass Senator Ted Cruz has made quite a name for himself as one of the true TeaBigots of the RepubliKlan party. I'm sure that he will be one of the leading contenders for the 2016 RepubliKlan...
View ArticleYellen vs. Summers: Now I'm Confused
First let me make it clear that I am very biased against Larry Summers, and have been so since he pushed for repeal of Glass-Steagall, in 1999, as Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary. Concurrently,...
View ArticleHow to Cover the Cost of Drug Testing Welfare Recipiants? Make Them Pay!
As vuzvilla noted in a diary from earlier todayHere's the problem with testing welfare recipients for drugs. It's expensive, inefficient, heartless, and probably unconstitutional.It also doesn't work....
View ArticleOn Being the "Gatekeeper On Who's Progressive."
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.Mahatma Gandhi During the Democratic Town Hall last night in New HampshireClinton shot back in her session following...
View ArticleThe Art of Smearing
Talk about the urinal calling the toilet white.While the HillYes campaign has been crying foul over the Sanders campaign's “artful smearing” of Hillary — by telling the truth about her nefarious...
View ArticleBreaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Dodd Frank Act & Too-Big-To-Jail, err...
A Breaking News article in today’s New York Times details some of the complexities involved in preventing large financial institutions from destroying the economy again as the did in 2008:Five giant...
View ArticleGaming A Closed Primary: Reagan Democrats & The Games People Play On...
Though Hillary Clinton supporters often complain about Open Primaries, believing that allowing non-Democratic affiliated voters to vote in Democratic primaries favors Bernie Sanders, the truth is that...
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Vermont GunRunners: Hillary Clinton and the Art of the Smear
In her continuing attempt to frame Bernie Sanders as soft on guns, Hillary Clinton has given a perfect example of the aphorismThere are lies, damn lies, and statisticswhen she claims thatMost of the...
View ArticleSecretary Clinton: Please Do NOT Release Your Wall Street Transcripts.
As a Bernie Sanders supporter from way back in da day (c. 1988), I fully understand why he has incessantly called on Secretary Clinton to release the transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street — he...
View ArticleLock-Down: New York's Hermetically Sealed Primary.
If Closed primaries are actually a benefit to Hillary Clinton in her campaign to secure the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party then her winning her home primary on April 19th should be a...
View ArticleLone Black GOP Senator's Experiences with "Da Law"
While many so-called “Leftist” and self-described “Progressives” continue to proffer arguments that racism is a product of economic inequality, People of Color, of every socioeconomic status, continue...
View ArticleAs You Sow So Shall You Reap
Don’t you just love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning!California Farmers Backed Trump, but Now Fear Losing Field WorkersMERCED, Calif.Jeff Marchini and others in the Central Valley here bet...
View ArticlePutin's Puppet: Trump's Treason Implies Vlad Really Must Have Something On...
Let’s not forget that it was President Putin who ordered President Trump to meet with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister in the Oval Office last week. You know, the meeting during which Donald...
View ArticleBreaking News: Anthony Weiner, What a D*ck!
Ex-Congressman, and known sex deviant, Anthony Weiner will plead guilty to charges related to his sexting with a minorFormer Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned in 2011 over an earlier sexting...
View Article“If he really cared about the good guys out here, he would have stood up for...
Philando Castile’s mother is calling BS on NaziRacistAsshole Wayne LaPierre for regurgitating the meme that “to stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun” at CPAC.Valerie Castile told...
View ArticleFacebook Faceplants @ CPAC: 6-Figure Donation and Virtual Reality Shooter Game.
This is sad enough:Sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell The Daily Beast that Facebook made a six-figure contribution to CPAC, the yearly conference for conservative activists which will...
View ArticleTV Station's Closed Caption Slurs Austin Terrorist Victim: "This Monkey"
From RawStory:TV station’s closed captioning slurs Austin bombing victim Draylen Mason as ‘this monkey’However, not to worry because not only was it not the TV station’s fault that they broadcasted...
View ArticleLetting the Terrible Be the Enemy of the Awful
Recently, when the Senate passed the Dodd-Frank rollback Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Bill (S.2155) — thanks to the complicity assistance of seventeen Democratic...
View ArticleKISS: It's Illicit to Solicit
Ukraine-gate:By now, it is obvious to all but the most willfully blind that Trump made a quid pro quo offer to Zelenski during that July phone call for which Trump will soon be impeached: the quid...
View ArticleOuting the Whistleblowers: That's Right, There's More Than One
TeamTrump's obsession with outing the Whistleblower has become ever more hysterical as the general public becomes ever more informed as to just what was wrong with President Trump's "Perfect Phone...
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737 MAX: Deadly, by Design. [Updated]
On March, 2019, when an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crashed shortly after takeoff:its impact in a field near Addis Ababa created a hole about 32 feet deep, 92 feet wide, and 131 feet long.The plane's...
View ArticleWhiten Up! Towards a New Democratic Coalition in the New South
Although nationally 60% of Democratic voters are White Americans, in South Carolina, and many other Southern states, POC are the vast majority of Democratic voters - especially Democratic Primary...
View ArticleTrump, 2011: Obama Will Start War With Iran to Win Reelection [UPDATED]
*** Edit *** Originally Published HOURS before the announcement of the assassination of high-profile commander of Iran's secretive Quds Force, Qassim Suleimani, and the subsequent flood of "War with...
View ArticleIowa Nice? A BIG "FU!" To Black America.
So much for the myth that Iowans give a ratz azz as to the presidential preferences of African-American. After all, it's not as if it isn't news that Mayor Pete is the least popular Democratic...
View ArticleTrump's Electoral Viability: Gettin' Near "GET OUT!" Time?
I have to believe that it can't be just me who is scared sh!tless by the fact thatafter 4+ years of Lord and Master Donald John Trump, that even after his demented performance at the National Prayer...
View ArticleReverend Dr Martin Luther King, Jr: Democratic Socialist
When Chris Matthews totally lost what little common sense he has left and went on a Trumpian tiraid against Bernie Sanders and socialism - going so far as to imagine political executions in NYC's...
View ArticleBloomberg and Abrams: Money CAN Buy You Love
Now that a recording of Mayor Mike expressing some really heinous racist shit has surfaced, many people may think that this will be the end of his emerging positive popularity amongst...
View ArticlePolitico (NOT The Onion): "Bloomberg distances himself from Wall Street..."
No, really. He even has a plan for that:Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg is calling for stricter rules on banks and other financial firms in an apparent bid to prove he can be tough on...
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