Wilkerson op-ed piece in today's LA Times
For those of you who didn't participate in the Red Eye diary and thread, it was announced that Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff while Secretary of State, has an op-ed piece...
View ArticleThank you, DENVER! (poll)
The early coverage has been submerged in the A.P. article about the Chimp's campaign appearance today for an endangered Republican congresswoman in Denver, but 300 chanting, drumming demonstrators...
View ArticleAstonishing new Army enlistment bonus
Somehow, I suspected it would come to this.As one of the "innovative recruiting initiatives" authorized by the 2006 National Defense Authorization Act, the office of the commanding general for the U.S....
View ArticleFor-profit traffic enforcement (poll)
The toughest thing about putting this diary together has been coming up with a title. I could have named it "implications of red light cameras", or "do you have a spare $350?", or "have you heard...
View ArticleChafee endorsement followup (poll)
I haven't seen anyone else following up on the diary Markos wrote last week about the Rhode Island chapter of the Sierra Club endorsing Senator Lincoln Chafee for re-election. So...below the fold, I...
View ArticleFeel like freeping a movie review? POLL
If you feel like doing something else while Bush reads his speechwriters' and political advisors' words in the background (or if, like me, you prefer to read about what was said tomorrow), you might...
View ArticleStrike for peace (poll)
If you haven't read Maccabee's recommended diary, Bush Has No Idea How Much Trouble He Is In, take some time to do so. As I read the discussion there, and as I pondered the announcement I'd read in...
View ArticleAre Republicks showing up here, trying to mess with DailyKos?
I spent more than ten years helping to moderate an Internet site which had nothing to do with politics. That experience has made me a bit more sensitive about attempts by outsiders to interfere with...
View ArticleGasBuddy's "Gas Temperature Map"
Forgive me if links to the "Gas Temperature Map" maintained by the GasBuddy site appeared in the diaries by Jerome a Paris or the other Kossacks who have written on the subject recently....
View ArticleYahoo Mail is classing e-mail from Democratic groups as spam
Over the past month or so, I have had a problem with Yahoo Mail: e-mail messages to me from Democratic groups and liberal groups (groups like the NAACP, which don't contain the words "Democrat" or...
View ArticleModerator for a Day
Motivated by the vice-presidential debate, which still is going on, I’d like to ask my fellow Kossaks how they would act as moderator to control some of the stuff going on. If you were moderating a...
View ArticleTRUMP BUDGET DETAILS--Briefing by Mick Mulvaney--Links to WaPo and NYT...
This will be fast and dirty. I waited for someone else to post something, and I looked for an appropriate diary for me to add this news, but here you are, before everyone hits the hay.Monday afternoon...
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