So the NRA called my Vet..just now..I usually hang up but he wanted to talk...
I am still sitting here with my jaw dropped. We are not members of the biggest lobby for gun violence so they must have assumed to just call random or had a list of veterans. The conversation went...
View ArticleH&TNV's Great British Breakfast and Euro-APR
Welcome to this week’s trawl through the Euro-press’s comments on the US election. Links take you to Google Translate versions of non-English sources - if you get messages about malformed requests,...
View ArticleRepublicans Wonder Why Black People Vote For Obama and Democrats. Really?
Surrogates for Donald Trump are flooding the airwaves, questioning the voting behaviors of black folks. They can’t understand why black people have been a reliable voting block for the...
View ArticleCBS/You Gov Poll: PA: Clinton +8 in 4 way race
d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/…Leads 45-37-6-2August 30-Sept 21091 Likely Voters+/- 4.1% MOELeads in every age demo except 45-64 (43-45). Leads among men and women. -7 among white voters w/Trump...
View ArticleThe Clinton scandal the NYT is looking for exists, but it won't be reported...
This is infuriating. It’s one thing to work tirelessly to find some (frequently false) equivalency, to preserve the ideal of BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES that has infected the political press and...
View ArticleTrump's Black Outreach Colorfully Crushed As 'Nothing But A Scam'
On Friday Donald Trump went to Detroit to speak at the Great Faith Ministries Church. It was billed by the campaign as an attempt to reach out to African-American voters. However, most Americans saw it...
View ArticleTremors reveal the structure of deep shafts in the Greenland ice sheet, so...
Those who do pay attention to global warming know that Greenland is melting. The world’s second largest ice sheet is melting fast, the rate of melt is accelerating, and it is not going to stop melting...
View ArticleThey couldn't get the fire hoses to reach that far so they went with plan B
Plan B being attack dogs. Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! reporting on the latest protest at Standing Rock x YouTube Video x@democracynow Your doggie pic wuz too cute so here's something more...
View ArticleAll welcome to comment here at CUA: Hey Connecticut! Asheville meet-up! A...
Welcome to Connect! Unite! Act! A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the vote, support...
View ArticleHillary & Tim Hangout #StrongerTogether 9.5.16
Good Afternoon HillPeeps! This diary is an afternoon hangout to discuss everything to do with the Clinton/Kaine campaign. We here are enthusiastic supporters (yes …. there is enthusiasm!) so we ask...
View ArticleHillary News & Views 9.5: Labor Day, Feminism, Letters, Tim on ABC, Jimmy...
*** SUPPORT HILLARY CLINTON ***Donate Today!For more coverage of Hillary Clinton at Daily Kos, visit the Hillary Writers Circle.For open discussions with fellow Hillary Clinton supporters, visit...
View ArticleWow! Former CNN Host Soledad O'Brien Eviscerates CNN: "You Have Normalized"...
Leave it to a media pro like Soledad O’Brien to call out her media colleagues for their normalization of Donald Trump’s hateful, racist campaign in a way that I’ve seen few others do. Speaking on CNN...
View ArticleThe Dakota Access Pipeline guards unleash attack dogs on our American Indian...
Big oil is relentless. Our tribes’ battle with KXL pipeline was not long ago and now we’re dealing with another attempt to transport dirty oil through our nations. For those of you needing a primer,...
View ArticleRemembering Freddie Mercury on (what would have been) his 70th birthday
It’s hard to believe that were he still with us today, Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara), the lead singer of Queen who died nearly 25 years ago from AIDS, would be 70 years old today. To many,...
View ArticleA Conservative Bastion No More: How Obama Transformed the 4th Circuit, and...
What if we could take perhaps the second- or third-most powerful court in the country, a favorite court of conservatives, and install a liberal/progressive majority instead? What if this is not a...
View ArticleE-Ghazi: The FBI report that exonerates Clinton
Part 1 of 2On Friday, September 2, the FBI made public its report (Part 1 and Part 2) on its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email on a private server to conduct government business...
View ArticleThe worm is starting to turn
I just glanced at Upshot Blog's Presidential Forecast page. As of this morning it has Clinton at 86% chance of winning, up from the low point as recently as yesterday of 85%. Similarly, when I check...
View ArticleKrugman: 2000 redux? Hillary Being "Gored" By Innuendo
Krugman writes a piece in the NYTs that brings memories of the 2000 elections screaming in my head. I have to admit I had just moved back from Chile , but I do recall all those small whispers and...
View ArticleCharles M. Blow takes on Trump's visit to the Black church
and it is simply delicious.His column today is titled Donald Trump Does Detroit and for those of us of a certain age it seems to be a deliberate reference to a porn film of another time, “Debbie Does...
View ArticleNew WaPo/SM Poll: Polled 50 States.... TX is A Tossup
There is a new WaPo/SM poll out today which polled all 50 states…. Youza 74k registered voters online from August 9-sept 1 ( I assume this will have an effect if the dud all 50 states in 3 weeks or...
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