Climate change will affect us for 10,000 years. But it still hasn't had 10...
I thought that maybe, just maybe, since we had climate change denier Kimberly Strassel of The Wall Street Journal on board as one of the Republican debate moderators tonight we might get a question on...
View ArticleSanders, Photographs, Civil Rights, and Responsible Reporting: An Update
This is a rather strange story for me. Honestly, I don’t pay that much attention to US politics these days — some of my coworkers here in Reykjavík pay more attention that me. Up until recently I...
View ArticleA Few Hundred Kossacks Should be Ashamed This Morning. Truly Ashamed.
Normally, on Saturdays, I do a Nuts & Bolts Diary. Don’t worry, one will still happen tomorrow, it has already been written. Today, I was scheduled to be in North Carolina. Tickets in hand, plan in...
View ArticleHuge Turnout of 18,000 at Sanders Rally in Denver and a Statement on Justice...
Press ReleaseHuge Turnout at Sanders Rally in DenverFebruary 13, 2016TwitterFacebookEmail LinkDENVER – More than 18,000 stoked Bernie Sanders supporters crowded into the Denver Convention Center on...
View ArticleHillary Reminds Republicans Who The President Of The United States Is,...
Hillary was on fire tonight talking about the consequences of the SCOTUS vacancy and reminding Republican’s who the President is, "whether the Republican's like it or not”. I truly enjoy when Hillary...
View ArticleBNR - 'Sanders Fires Up 18,000+ In Denver' & 'Small Gifts Boost Bernie's...
Small Gifts Boost Bernie In The Fund-Raising BattleIn the back of a Concord, N.H., school gymnasium, as Bernie Sanders gave a triumphant speech after winning the New Hampshire Democratic primary,...
View ArticleLet's Not Twist It. My Differences with Scalia Were More Than "Political"
I opened a giant wooden door that separated the West Courtroom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals from the bare hallway that connected the room to the fresh outside air. A small man with a patchy...
View ArticleIsle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha Indians become the first...
The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw just received $48 Million to move off of their disappearing south Louisiana island. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in January that it had...
View ArticleMADAM PRESIDENT'S DAY Starts Now!
It's midnight on the east coast...and that means Madam President's Day has officially begun! We're now starting a 24-hour online donation marathon (aka "moneybomb") for the woman who will be the next...
View ArticleBernie calls on Hillary to respect Obama's policy and overturn DNC decision...
Link: www.ibtimes.com/…Immediately after last week’s Democratic debate, the DNC curiously lifted President Obama’s ban on campaigns accepting money from PACs and lobbyists that he instituted in 2008....
View ArticleDespicable: Attacking Hillary for Defending Children
Once again, hundreds of Bernie Sanders supporters have elevated a vile lie to the top of the Kos rec list. In this case a diarist calls Hillary Clinton a monster in a profanity laced tirade for...
View ArticleSyrian war about to get catastrophically worse
If you thought the political and humanitarian situation in Syria couldn't be any worse, you are about to be proven horribly wrong. Unless several nation pull back from the brink right now, the Syrian...
View ArticleBern! "My opponent says free college is too expensive. Well the Iraq war was...
BOOM! x @BernieSanders in NV just now: "My opponent says free college is too expensive. Well the Iraq war was pretty damn expensive."— Jordan LeDoux (@jrledoux) February 14, 2016We used to get pissed...
View ArticleNew Hampshire was a bigger deal than I thought
After having read everything on Kos twice I was still reluctant to wash dishes, so I started reading Alternet. An article by Thom Hartmann surprised me.Although New Hampshire was a great victory, the...
View ArticleBNR - 'Sanders Speaks To Thousands Of Supporters In Las Vegas' & 'Bernie Goes...
Sanders Takes His Message To ChurchSenator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Hillary Clinton took their increasingly contentious battle for the Democratic nomination to a predominantly black church in Las...
View ArticleWhy my daughter will never vote for Hillary under ANY circumstances
My daughter, a school teacher, and my son in law, an IT for Amazon, were stunned while watching the most recent debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Actually, they were rather horrified....
View ArticleTop economist, UN advisor and climate activist: "Clinton is a danger to world...
Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Bloodbathby Jeffrey D. SachsCommon DreamsSunday, February 14, 2016In the Milwaukee debate, Hillary Clinton took pride in her role in a recent UN Security Council...
View ArticleThoughts on Sanders, Clinton, and Susan Faludi's op-ed in today's NYT
In her op-ed in today’s NYT, Not Their Mother's Candidate, Susan Faludi begins by rightly taking to task the media for simplifying the statements of Madeleine Albright (there's “a special place in...
View ArticleHillary Distances From Campaign Staff & Repudiates "We Might Lose in 80%...
I keep getting surprised by Hillary shooting herself in the foot. An endless list of gaffes and poor past judgments, relations, and transactions.Now apparantly, Hillary attributed the “we might lose in...
View ArticleA gentle response to Laura Clawson's anti-Bernie diary
First, a link to Laura’s diary. Laura is one of the best writers anywhere on things that affect working people. I share of a lot of the same interests and have lots of links to Laura Clawson diaries...
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