The End Game for Humanity
This is a solemn moment in America. Things have gotten quite serious. We're on the verge of losing not only democracy but the battle to leave a viable ecosystem for future generations. And I'm talking...
View ArticleIt's time to support the Quilting Sisters of Daily Kos
As our friend, JekyllnHyde says, Sara and Ann have done a great deal for the Daily Kos community.
View ArticleBernie is for real
It's time to break out of the straight jacket of incremental progress or none at all. We are told that we must support the establishment democrat or get stuck with a crazy republican. Either way, the...
View ArticleRise above and float away (an illustrated poem)
* Dedicated to Paris, Beirut and all who suffer
View ArticleShe told Wall Street, “Cut it out!” and took their millions because 9/11
How can anybody be sucked in by such shallow and deceptive swill? It's not like it is in any way convincing or genuine – or even rational. It's pure bullshit and obviously so. Someone wrote a diary...
View ArticleThe rec list belongs at the top of the page
The rec list should be put back at the top of the page above Community Spotlight, in my humble opinion. No offense to Community Spotlight or the small group of people who make those choices, but the...
View ArticleLest they be angels (in honor of Daily Kos's BFSkinner)
*This is dedicated to our brother in trouble, BFSkinner , and also to victims of war, terrorism, violence and illness, refugees from any nation, the desperate, the poor and all who suffer in this...
View ArticleHillary led Obama at this point too
And we all know how that turned out. In November 2007, many in the media counted Obama out, said he had no chance and quoted polls such as the Gallup poll that I cite here. They were all wrong. As I...
View ArticleDon't vote for the problem, vote for the solution
The economic inequality that's run rampant in this country has run its course. We can no longer tolerate its harmful effects: enforced poverty, homelessness, the destruction of our environment, blatant...
View ArticleThey're doing it again: Using fear and war to subvert hope and change
We are a nation beset by problems, many of which are the predictable results of unregulated capitalism, human greed and selfishness, a monstrous and out-of-control Military Industrial Complex and a...
View ArticleThink for yourself
At this moment in history, having just suffered yet another horrific terrorist attack, it is vital that we be wise and smart - and think for ourselves.It's neither practical nor moral to destroy entire...
View ArticleYou can't change a corrupt system by taking its money
“The truth is, you can't change a corrupt system by taking its money.”Bernie SandersAnd you can't effect the desperately needed changes in our energy crisis by continuing to subsidize and back the...
View ArticleIf you want to be safe from terrorists, tell the govt to stop making them
It's not complicated. Drop a bomb, kill a few people, create some unknowable number of new 'terrorists' who will hate us forever and want to kill us for perfectly understandable reasons: we killed...
View ArticleDon't overlook the significance of Bernie rejecting corporate money
This is unlike any presidential campaign in history. The Democratic primary pits a rich and powerful oligarch against a people’s champion and person of relatively modest means. It’s not our usual...
View ArticleHey, hey! Ho, ho! Oligarchy's got to go!
It's a sad day in America when Jimmy Carter, a mainstream politician, albeit a moral giant compared to most of our politicians, can say with conviction that America has become an oligarchy. HARTMANN:...
View ArticleHillary Is Already Triangulating Against Liberals
* Every word of this is true to the best of my knowledge.Yep, she's come out against single-payer universal health care. She's attacking Bernie for trying to do the right thing for America. Showing her...
View ArticleThe American ruling class are honoring war criminals and torturers
Every American needs to face the facts of who we really are. I've believed that ever since reading Dee Brown's excellent Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West in 1970 at...
View ArticleTelling the truth does NOT a hit piece make
Telling the truth is a public service.If you are a blogger, a writer or just a concerned citizen, and you see a significant number of democrats contemplating what you honestly believe to be a disaster,...
View ArticleAre you satisfied?
NOTE: Fair warning. I'm going to be very blunt in this pro-Bernie Sanders diary. If that's just going to piss you off, hurt your feelings, or otherwise offend you, cause you agony or despair – spare...
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