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Hate Bush? Nah. Can't Be Bothered.

Right wingers often try to defuse criticism of The Leader by accusing critics of being "Bush Haters." Talking heads of the O'Reilly, Krauthammer, and Jacobyilk hurl the term like a thunderbolt from...

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This Week in Review: 1984, Meet Soviet America

The only good thing I can say about the terror bombshell dropped on US voters last week is that it was an "August Surprise" and not an "October Surprise." But don't think for a minute that Karl isn't...

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An Immodest Proposal

My poor mailman. Every day he brings more pounds of mail from Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, James Carville, Charles Schumer, the DNC, the DFA and it never ends. All are asking, begging,...

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Why Doesn't the Demo Leadership Get It?

We just never learn....do we? I've been watching the brouhaha over "The Path to 9/11" and, on the one hand, I've been very gratified by the overwhelming and noisy reaction by liberals to this...

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When do we hit rock bottom?

Based on postings and comments, there is little doubt that nearly everyone who reads and participates in Daily Kos feels that the Bush Administration represents a huge distortion of American culture...

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War on Women...or a Lot More?

The ongoing religious right's assault on reproductive rights brings me back to a dining hall conversation in the '60s during my Jesuit university undergraduate days. At one bull session I recall a...

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L'Affaire Snowden

The forced grounding of Bolivian President Morales' airplane over European airspace this week hints at an intense level of desperation if not panic among US security organizations over the Snowden...

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A lurker comes out

My Daily Kos profile says I joined the site on 29 September 2004...9 years ago! Wow!! How time flies...!!It also rates my diary frequency at "seldom" and my commenting frequency at "often." However,...

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An American Tragedy

My apologies to Theodore Dreiser for stealing his title, but the jury's verdict in the George Zimmerman trial suggests that the price our "exceptional" Republic continues to pay for its past embrace of...

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Ferguson's best hope

Missouri Governor Nixon is deploying the state National Guard, while according to news reports the St. Louis Military Police have drawn up plans to do battle with their taxpayers and of course the...

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The Libertarian Fantasy

Somehow I've missed seeing a root-cause analysis of why Libertarians, aka Republicans, hate "the government" so much. Why is the GOP view of any program benefitting the poor or the middle class, a case...

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