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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