Where did Obama learn his positivity?
In case you didn't know, the hope creed pre-exists all of us and has been a solid part of the American psyche on both sides of the color line for over a century.Do any of you Obama scholars out there...
View ArticleThat's President Umptuous To You!
Here's a tale about a winner who whined a time* then went on winning. Thrills for all and smiles and crowds reserved for the few. That's it, of the few, just one more. Many like him. If you're lucky...
View ArticleWish the Obama family a nice vacation!
I heard Rachel Maddow today bemoaning that Barack Obama will get some well-earned rest in Hawai'i. I'm happy because for Sarkozy to ask him when he would be taking a vacation means that he has been...
View Articledemconvention.com - how do we make the most of it?
I'm so happy we have demconvention.com to work with as the campaign heads towards the debates and November. Every speech! And following right after the comprehensive Olympics coverage online at...
View ArticleInformation Literacy logo is really cool
Edgar Luy Perez won UNESCO's contest to design a logo for information literacy. International information literacy logo contest: a new logo selected!Announced August 25Please click on the link and look...
View Articlea %20 I'm very unhappy about
Easy to say this doesn't rate it's own diary but I'm peeved. So I turn to you. Having just watched KO and RM, and refreshed the MSNBC Rachel page at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...I am upset that her...
View ArticleMaddow Watchers Poll ALERT
update:[She's back on...although I'm still suspicious]Did you think while it was happening that the sound/audio cut-off during Rachel's Palin coverage was being caused by someone's finger on a knob. I...
View ArticleCan you name one thing John McCain believes in?
Can you name one thing John McCain believes in?Torture is wrong. Nope. Military readiness. Degraded on his watch. Conservative ideological principles? Few would give this to him. It is only as compared...
View ArticleMaverick tax-relief: self-help
Two HuffPo stories paint a picture of undeclared personal income that should be framed in terms of the importance Republicans and this ticket place on lowering American's taxes.Sam Stein, who has been...
View Articleheads up & heads down for Shakir Stewart. sad
This is so sad. I don't see any diaries on this and why would there be in a way but here is one. Tragically it seems a successful black brother killed himself while on top of the music industry as...
View ArticleCounting Down ~75 Days
First I'd like to agree with our erudite ones here that we have to stay flexible and not second guess our President-Elect's deep game. But there is much for us to do. I'll try not to fall into any tin...
View ArticleGOP the idealistic elephant
A fable of failureThe W years were an idealistic time when being pachydermous became more important than anything in America, including a lot of traditional values, the sort represented by pieces of...
View ArticleThe poll I want to see on evolution
I follow this site closely and haven't diaried for a while. Since I've been thinking about this, I'm breaking down and expect to get jumped on some. I would like to see a poll that asks three questions...
View ArticleScott Wilson's WaPo crap
How not to talk about a sitting president in a major "news" paper:Obama's New Tack: Blaming BushPresident Points to 'Inherited' Economy By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14,...
View ArticleTake Webb's Back! Easy ACTION: Click & Subscribe
Glenn Greenwald's post today justifiably praises Webb's courage for introducing S. 714, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009. http://www.salon.com/...Webb has a landing page with links...
View ArticleJoin Webb's list today! Overhaul U.S. unjust detention.
"The United States has by far the world's highest incarceration rate. With 5% of the world's population, our country now houses nearly 25% of the world's reported prisoners. We currently incarcerate...
View ArticleSurge of empty pop-ups: has this happened to you?
I don't know whether this is some sort of malware attack that only affects liberal websites. I'm asking.I'm on a PC with Internet Explorer. (I'm not sure of the version. It came with my Dell about...
View ArticleNYT's latest cover up - the Fox behind the straw
May 23, Helene Cooper's White House Memo titled "Some Obama Enemies Are Made Totally of Straw" (linked at HuffPo home page) http://www.nytimes.com/...attempts to cover up right-wing crazytalk by...
View ArticleRepublican Soto oppo's clinging to Euro vision of how laws should work
I know something about this but not a whole lot. I am not a lawyer. Mostly, I remember my careful reading of Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr.'s "The Common Law" years back. http://www.amazon.com/...I've also...
View ArticleIn Awe Of emptywheel's Recent Efforts
In case you haven't been trying to keep up with it, the fact is that Marcy Wheeler at http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/has gone turbo. She's always been great. Her work has almost always been hot. But...
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