Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines flips off Ted Cruz before kicking off first tour...
Outspoken musician and activist Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks once stated during a 2003 World Tour that she was basically ashamed to be from the same state as then-president George W. Bush. The...
View ArticleThe Pootie Queen Needs Our Love And Energy!
A healing touch….. In case folks don’t check their messages, Joey got in touch with some of The Peeps to share the news that Tricia has gone to the ER by ambulance. I got the word at 7:15 Eastern, to...
View ArticleHillary with Massive Lead Nationwide
Sampling size: 1,002 with a MOE of +-3Updated 7:07 PM ET, Mon January 25, 2016www.cnn.com/...Hillary is winning on enthusiasm. Of those enthusiastic about their candidate:Hillary 37% to 33% for...
View ArticleWaPo Columnist, The Nation Editor: Bernie Sanders is the realist we should elect
Just saw this on my twitter feed and hadn't seen it posted here yet. While I encourage you to go read the entire piece, I'll relate some of it. The author is Katrina vanden Heuvel, a weekly...
View ArticleSanders Places Hold on FDA Nominee
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that he has placed a hold on Food and Drug Administration Commissioner nominee Dr. Robert Califf because of his close ties to the...
View ArticleHow CBS Smothered the Smothers Brothers
In the late 1960's, at the height of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the hippie revolution, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour became the most controversial show in TV history and,...
View Article[UPDATE x3]: So this is what dKos has been reduced to?
Over the past 2 1/2 years, NY Times columnist, Princeton Economics Professor and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has cited my work a number of times, for which I am eternally flattered. However, I'm pretty...
View ArticleMSNBC, New Hampshire Union-Leader Announce Unsanctioned Democratic...
Apparently too many in the Democratic party have had enough of Debbie Wasserman Schultz obstructing further debates. Talking Points Memo is reporting that MSNBC and the New Hampshire Union-Leader are...
View ArticleWith Joy!! Powerful Endorsement for Hillary from Joan Walsh
here is a link to the endorsement www.thenation.com/... but what is really interesting and powerful is her description of how she and her daughter have been attacked online by Bernie supporters.for me...
View ArticleFBI directs media to leave the area, militants at the standoff declare law...
The remaining armed militants at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge vow that they will continue to fight until the end. The FBI asked the media to leave the area at approximately 7:45 AM PT. The militants...
View ArticleAmerican Women Have Waited 227 Years for a Female President...and It's Time...
There is so much to recommend about Joan Walsh's incredible piece in The Nation today entitled "Why I’m Supporting Hillary Clinton, With Joy and Without Apologies" that it's hard to know where to...
View ArticleAmmon Bundy issues plea to remaining militants via his attorney: 'Please...
Ammon Bundy has a message for the remaining armed militants at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge:"I'm asking the federal government to allow the people at the refuge to go home without being prosecuted,"...
View ArticleBernie Meets with President Obama, says Obama and Biden are "Evenhanded and...
Bernie met with the President today for an hour. Here’s what he said afterward:Emerging from the White House after meeting with Obama for more than an hour, Sanders said he wasn't bothered by a recent...
View ArticleEspying a Ghost at Sanders' Duluth Event
Senator Bernie Sanders came to Duluth, MN yesterday afternoon and I was delighted to be among the crowd of some 6,000 souls packing the old DECC Arena to see and hear him. Bernie was introduced by Jake...
View ArticleI Like this Sanders Fellow. He's Conservative.
adj. holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion. synonyms: traditionalist, traditional, conventional, orthodox,...
View ArticleBernie Sanders "comes clean" about his paid speaking fees
So I put up a diary the other day letting the Kossacks know about the amount of money HRC has personally made from speaking fees to the health care industry in the last couple of years ($2.85 Million)....
View ArticleBernie Sanders Town Hall with guest Susan Sarandon Live from Mason City, Iowa
Please join Bernie Sanders and activist, actress, and humanitarian Susan Sarandon for a town meeting in Mason City to discuss the major issues facing our country. x YouTube VideoFor your listening...
View ArticleBERNIE SANDERS – some people just don't get it
Pundits, politicians, establishment folk. They can't imagine what's going on. Like the clueless billionaire in Davos who expressed bewilderment that people are unhappy. He just couldn't wrap his head...
View ArticleBernie's Master Stroke in asking for SANCTIONED debates!
Bernie Sander’s is not allowing himself to be maneuvered by Clinton or NBC into a pre-New Hampshire debate. Instead he is using their strategy to prevent them from ‘cornering’ him to do what they...
View ArticleI admit it. I'm having fun.
Okay, today I discovered, accidentally, that I was the subject of a very long (and not very nice) conversation here in Lysis’ daily “Hillary News & Views” diary. The nature of the conversation was...
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