Mention Hitler, Make People More Willing to Intervene
That's the conclusion of a poll by YouGov.com. In the poll,We asked one half of our survey takers the standard sort of questions about U.S. involvement in Ukraine: "Do you think the U.S. should get...
View ArticleUS Senator Ron Johnson and Wisconsin Assemblyman Bill Kramer
Ron Johnson is the Republican Tea Party U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Replaced Democrat Russ Feingold in 2010. Ignoramus.Bill Kramer is a Republican Wisconsin Assemblyman. Elected last year Majority...
View ArticleWhy Is the NBA Exempt from Anti-Trust Law?
The recent problem with Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers, has led me to think again the exemption of the NBA and other national sports associations from the Sherman Antitrust Act. I wonder...
View ArticleIf Not Warren, How About Biden?
I've just read a great article, "The Biden Agenda: Reckoning with Ukraine and Iraq, and keeping an eye on 2016." by Evan Osnos in the July 28, 2014 New Yorker.It suggests to me that failing Warren...
View ArticleHere's an Example of Why Holder is Dangerous
As reported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, theEFF is suing the NSA and other government agencies on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal unconstitutional and ongoing dragnet...
View ArticleMy PR Letter From the White House
I'm on the distribution for some White House public relations emails. Here's the outline of one I just received, based on President Obama's 9/17/14 address to service men and women at McGill Air...
View Article'Intervention Fatigue' Indeed
Our ambassador to the United Nations delivered an address on Wednesday in which she said:I think there is too much of, ‘Oh, look, this is what intervention has wrought’… one has to be careful about...
View ArticleSign me up, Russ
This is a potential bright spot for me: "Progressive favorite Russ Feingold moves closer to a comeback," especially the part describing the less than positive polling numbers of the Republican dolt who...
View ArticleThis Speech Reminds Me Why I Worked For Obama
The President's speech at the City Club of Cleveland goes for the first 36 minutes of this CSPAN clip.This is the kind of thing I wanted from him, and he's delivered domestically, although he's also...
View ArticleYou Don't Get to Decide Yemen's Future
If you're like me, you know next to nothing about Yemen. You don't know its people or its history. Until fairly recently, you could barely find it on a map. Maybe, though, you still have an opinion...
View ArticleDon't Trade A Military Alliance With Israel for the Iran Nuclear Deal
I just saw Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct) address the Senate on the Iran deal.He supports the deal on conditions that include committing to use of u>all means to prevent Iran from getting a...
View ArticleCrony Capitalism in Action
Carl Icahn, corporate raider, helped the incoming Trump administration to select cabinet nominees, particularly succeeding when the Senate acquiesced in the case of now-EPA director Scott Pruit. In...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Standard for Attribution
Here’s a section of a front page entry from yesterday: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a f*cking moron, but check out national security adviser H.R. McMaster:Here’s how the same story was...
View ArticleYou are reading the New York Times...
or the Washington Post, or Bloomberg, or Mother Jones, or Politico, CNN, MSNBC, CBS. If you are reading diaries here, you are getting summaries, excepts, aggregations from the MSM. If you doubt that,...
View ArticleWhat's Your Angle in Attacking Media For Not Saying Trump Lies?
There have been a few front-page diaries in the past few days which have attacked, with varying degrees of anger, the New York Times and other (primarily) newspapers because when they have broken news...
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