The 800 pound donkey in the GOP debate
On Tuesday night, Fox Business will host the next debate between the 2016 GOP presidential contenders. All involved are hoping to avoid a repeat of the last such event, the CNBC fiasco which left the...
View ArticleI'm A Veteran - Don't Thank Me
Yeah, yeah, I know...it has become de rigueur for folks to intone, “thank you for your service” as soon as they find out you’re a veteran. In some cases—usually in public settings, such as athletic...
View ArticleWhy President Bernie Sanders will be a strong and effective leader
With all of the Sanders love being tossed around, I find it frustrating that many enthusiastic and dedicated supporters fail to complete the argument as to why Bernie Sanders will be a strong and...
View ArticleSara and Ann Have Done a Great Deal for the Daily Kos Community. Now, They...
Meowna Lisa and Her Hooman, Leonardo da Vinci, Support This Community Fundraiser. And So Should You. I remember even to this day when I first worked with Sara R. With the passage of time, the details...
View ArticleDucks Unlimited Steps In It
A very old respected large conservation org has been caught out acting in a way antithetical to the very basic values of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation on which hunting conservation...
View ArticleBNR - 'Sanders Readies Aggressive Climate Proposals' & 'How Bernie Brought...
Sanders Readies Aggressive New Climate ProposalsBernie Sanders says he’ll have much more to say on climate change.The Vermont senator, who is taking on Democratic White House front-runner...
View ArticlePissed Off Southern Pastor treats the right wing to an epic rant
When Melanie Tubbs wrote a blog entry on LiberalAmerica.org last month on being a proud member of the Christian Left, she expected some blowback, but frankly, she probably didn’t expect that many...
View ArticleMizzou Students Evacuating Campus Tonight Due To Death Threats (Update)
Unfortunately BLM is not really bulletproof. Tonight there have been a number of online threats made against black Mizzou students and the Mizzou activist group ‘Concerned Students 1950’ in the wake...
View ArticleSimply Red: The Con-Man Behind the Rightwing's Starbucks Cup Freak-Out
When I read that the latest persecution of the rightwing Christian involved Starbucks changing their cups to red for the holiday season, I thought that the War on Christmas had officially hit rock...
View ArticleWhat the TPP 'Expropriation' Clause means in the Real World
Here’s the Link to that Report, mentioned in the Title photo.And here's a key bullet point from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Executive Summary found on TPP Final Table of Contents: Investment --...
View ArticleDK5 Update, Day 3: Why fix what wasn't broke? Because it was. Broken.
Huzzah! Annoying new-message pop-ups are gone! That one was fortunately easy to kill (at least until the whole feature can be rethought). Others will take longer. We are doing design review of various...
View ArticlePresident Trump = A Deportation Nightmare
So you want to deport over 11 million people “humanely”?Where do you send them?How do you get them to go voluntarily?You don’t think many will resist?How do you overcome the resistance?They have...
View ArticleMcClatchy-Marist: Sanders beats Trump by 12 points, Bush by 10
Brent Budowsky of The Hill is reporting a new McClatchy-Marist poll showing how Bernie Sanders faring very well in a general election match-up against either Donald Trump or Jeb Bush:In a new...
View ArticleTwo Reasons I Can't Vote For Hillary
I cannot support Hillary Clinton. Don't get me wrong, if she ends up the nominee I’ll definitely vote for her. She's much better than Marco, Ben, Ted, Donald, Jeb, or Carly. But there are too many...
View ArticleChristie Team Hiding Thousands of Documents inc. Emails re Bridgegate
In what will come as no surprise to anyone here, Chris Christie seems to have been indulging in a little projection at last nights Republican debate.The revelations today couldn’t have been more ironic...
View ArticleWhy I Don't Wear a Poppy for Remembrance Day
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada, called Veterans Day in the United States. It is traditional to wear a poppy pin leading up to today to commemorate the men and women who served and lost their lives...
View ArticleWhat do you mean I can't bring my service animal in?
(NOTE: Wow, I’m truly humbled by all of the great comments and recommendations you’ve all given me about this article. Luna and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts, the heart of our bottoms, and...
View ArticleHillary News & Views 11.12: An Inclusive, Feminist Plan for Veterans, a...
Today’s Hillary News & Views focuses heavily on Clinton’s expansive plans for meeting the needs of our veterans, along with those currently serving in the military.Clinton used the occasion of...
View ArticleSimple answer to anti-electric-vehicle talking points: "Never Show a Fool a...
This is a slight modification of a post I wrote for insideevs.com a few weeks ago. I was hesitating whether to cross-post it here — and now my curiosity about writing diaries in DK5 has tipped the...
View ArticleControversial judge orders baby removed from same-sex parents and placed with...
April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce have been fostering a Utah infant for three months. With the approval of the infant’s biological mother and a recommendation of the foster care caseworker, they were...
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