Before you give all your money to Barack Obama... (updated)
There's a diary scrolling down you should read. Our friend and fellow Kossack Scott Kleeb had a debate with his self-funded opponent in the primary race, and did so well even his opponent was full of...
View ArticleKnow any overweight kids?
StrangeAnimals has posted the latest in the Thursday Night Health Care series, an outstanding contribution on preventing childhood obesity. This problem is epidemic in our society, and threatens to...
View ArticleThe Clinton Intervention [with coda]
Howard Fineman dropped a bombshell tonight on Countdown. On the lead story, about Hillary Clinton's decision to suspend her campaign, Fineman reported that figures in Hillary's campaign reached out to...
View ArticleThe Ted Kennedy Health Care for All Act: Thursday Health Care Series
Those of us who care about health care reform in America have different goals. Barack Obama wants to make health insurance more affordable and available. Johm McCain wants to, uh, cut taxes or...
View ArticleThank You, John Edwards
I've just spent some time reading the various reactions to John Edwards' disappointing admission of his extramarital affair and his lying about it. I can sympathize with those who remember and honor...
View ArticleFaith Forum Liveblog VI
Jumping in here because so many comments have appeared on V.McCain spent ten minutes on his Hanoi Hilton days, which he's so reluctant to mention normally.Mothership by PLS. Live Blog II by MTmofo....
View Article"I've been to the mountaintop"
I sit here with tears in my eyes, just having watched Teddy Kennedy, the old liberal lion, give a loud and rousing roar. His speech was beautifully set up by the filmed appreciation of his family and...
View ArticleJust Lost My Virginity: Obama Donation Match
So far this year I've donated over $3000 to various candidates across the country, but not a dime to Barack Obama. I figured he had plenty of money and I saw a lot of other needy candidates who needed...
View ArticleNation of Service Liveblog III: Obama!
audiored's liveblog thread is the mothership. Please recommend that diary if you're inclined.Scubaval has Liveblog II.UPDATE:RoCali has posted Liveblog IV. Please decamp to that diary for the dial-up...
View ArticleMcCain Fell into Obama's Trap Tonight (with Poll!): Update -- Obama Won CBS Poll
Watching the debate tonight, I was shaking my head wondering why the last chance people have to hear from the presidential candidates was consumed by Ayers and ACORN and nasty attack ads against John...
View ArticlePlease Rescue: GOTV for Equal Rights in CA
Early this morning pico wrote an important diary pleading for help with the No on Prop. 8 campaign in CA. It is full of useful links and the latest information on polling in this tight race, where all...
View ArticleLieberman: Don't Get Mad, Get Effective
Yeah, yeah, I'm late to the party on the Holy Joe issue today. But listening to Harry Reid's pathetic excuse for a justification, and Lieberman's utter refusal to show any contrition -- or even...
View ArticleWhat Is It to Be a Citizen? (Updated)
I can't expect to live in a democracy if I'm not prepared to do the work of being a citizen. This was my signature line for much of last year. Some of you admired it, for which I give you thanks....
View ArticleFrank Rich Blows the Smoke Away from Washington
Frank Rich is perhaps our best national opinion columnist. His background in theater criticism gives him an unique and invaluable background for observing the goings-on in national politics. In the...
View ArticleObama's Katrina Moment: An Invitation to Radicalism (Updated)
Frank Rich's column this week, Has a ‘Katrina Moment’ Arrived?, is only a little hyperbolic in its thesis. In Rich's column, Tim Geithner and Laurence Summers play respectively the roles of Michael...
View ArticleIran: The End Game Approaches?
Tonight the invaluable Nico Pitney at HuffPo cites a very interesting analysis of Iranian clerical politics published at EurasiaNet, a project of the Open Society Institute which is sponsored by George...
View ArticleOne Year Ago: The Lion's Last Roar
A year and a day ago, Ted Kennedy gave a speech in Denver which stirred the soul of every listener, which summed up the courage and the humanity with which he had conducted his life and career. On...
View ArticleMacArthur at Incheon: How to Win Health Care Reform
On June 25, 1950, the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea invaded South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The South Koreans were quickly routed, and despite an initial influx of US soldiers and...
View ArticleSenate Democrats Listen to Dallasdoc. Finally!
As a few of you may recall, on September 19th I wrote a diary suggesting some alternative tactics to take the pressure off the public option and distract its opponents by making them fight on new...
View ArticleOne Every Twelve Minutes
Five weeks ago a Harvard Medical School study revealed the estimate that 44,789 Americans die every year because of lack of health insurance. Forty-four thousand, seven hundred eighty-nine. That's...
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