The Number of Medically Uninsured in our Country Equals the Population of 25...
I don't think many of us were surprised when we read this:Washington, DC --- With just over a week before the Super Committee's deadline, today U.S. Representative Heath Shuler (D-NC), Democratic Whip...
View ArticleAnother Reason to Love Congresswoman Giffords
In a letter sent yesterday to the members of the Super Committee, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords urged the twelve leaders to add Congressional salary cuts to any proposal they make to reduce the budget.
View ArticleAuthor Says Occupy Wall Street Has Reached A Turning Point
Have the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street protesters reached a turning point? Author Michael Chorost, says yes. In an article published two days ago in Psychology Today, Chorost says the moral...
View Article"What happens to one of us, affects us all."
“What happens to one of us, affects us all.” From the movie Desert Flower, the story of Waris DirieI became a Democrat on July 12, 1960.I have been a party faithful for over fifty years. I have fought...
View Article4.4 Earthquake North of Yorba Linda
I've experienced quite a few earthquakes since moving to California, and even though they aren't as startling as the first few I went through, those that are close enough - or strong enough - like...
View Article"Exceeding July 1936 at the peak of the Dust Bowl heat -- is BIG."
More people here where I live in the Texas oil patch of West Texas who have been unwilling to admit climate change science are beginning to question the position they have held in the past. They are...
View ArticleIt is time for ALL Democrats to rally around President Obama
As many of you know, I have been a fierce critic of President Obama’s policies, believing that many of his decisions have been wrong for our country and wrong for the Democratic Party. But after...
View ArticleYou can feed hungry children, if you pay $1,000
From the time that I was five until I reached eighteen, my parents owned a mom and pop grocery store in a small town in Southern Oklahoma. It was an aging, box-like structure that featured a large...
View ArticleGame Over
“…water is on the table for every single one of us. When it’s gone, game over.” Erin BrockovichThe 7 p.m. Mexicana Airlines flight from DFW to Ixtapa was running late, so I spent the down time talking...
View ArticleUnfit To Govern
In 2010, Lloyd Blankfein earned $53,965,418. Just two years earlier, as CEO of Goldman Sachs, he had petitioned the U.S. Government to give his company $12.9 billion dollars in bailout money, despite...
View ArticleMichael Bloomberg Rids NY City of Life-threatening Bras
Today, in New York City, six police officers thwarted the attempts of CODEPINK terrorists to…uh…shame Bank of America officials who had been accused by environmentalists of having helped finance the...
View ArticleThe Strength of Democratic Values
When James added his signature to the enlistment form, his Army recruiter leaned across the desk and shook his hand. He told him the decision he had made represented an honorable commitment to his...
View Article“They’re out of feed, they’re out of pasture, they’re out of water"
David Horsey posted an excellent commentary in yesterday's online issue of the L.A. Times. Under the heading: Republicans have a medieval mindset about climate change, Horsey says:In California, plans...
View ArticleAn Unfortunate Truth About the Keystone XL Pipeline
Either global warming is real, or the volumes of scientific evidence supporting climate change have been created as a cruel hoax.Since I’m not one who puts much stock in conspiracy theories, and...
View ArticleUnited Effort to Save Polar Bears
Between the years, 2001 and 2010, hunters hoping to sell trophy skins to collecters, killed an estimated 6,000 polar bears in Russia. That might not seem like a large number, but it represents a...
View ArticleCould This Be A Practical Solution For Coping With Climate Change?
Instead of blasting rock and forcing oil sludge to the earth’s surface; instead of usurping land rights from American citizens to allow a Canadian company to lay thousands of miles of environmentally...
View ArticleA List of Uncommitted Democratic Senators (On CPI)
MoveOn.org has published a whip count of declared positions by Democratic Senators re: CPI. You can visit their page here:http://pol.moveon.org/...According to their list, the Senators we need to...
View ArticleAnother Republican Nominee? Really?
“I think one of the enduring legacies of the Obama administration is that he has normalized assassination as a central component of U.S. national – it’s called national security policy –- he’s also...
View ArticleThe Heart of Freedom and Democracy, in Robert Kennedy’s Words
In response to the news that the NSA has collected vast amounts of electronic information on all Americans, many people on this site have downplayed the report’s significance. As usual, Digby, a master...
View ArticleWhy Data Mining Matters
Many of the Obama supporters on this site have been making the case that there is nothing new about the discovery of the NSA’s collection of massive amounts of personal information. And they say there...
View ArticleThe Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis
When presidential candidate Barack Obama promised change in 2008, no Progressive could have imagined that the change he meant would require a revamping of the Democratic Party to look more Republican...
View ArticleA monitored human being is not a free human being
A monitored human being is not a free human being. And every state that systematically contravenes human rights, even in the alleged service of security, is acting criminally.Jakob Augstein -- Spiegel...
View ArticleGovernment Workers Ordered to Spy on Fellow Employees
The recent revelation that Obama is using OFA members to quash opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline gave credence to accusations that the president has already endorsed big energy's interests while...
View Article"…the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
The first time I saw John V., he was dressed in a shirt that was dirty, and ragged, and much too small for his six-foot frame. He was walking on the right shoulder of a long stretch of road that led to...
View ArticleWant a Preview of the New Secret Trade Agreement?
Four days ago, War on Error posted an excellent diary on The Daily Kos that discussed the new secret trade agreement that is being negotiated by the White House. He linked to an email that was posted...
View Article14 Year-old Activist Destroys CBC Hosts
The next time you feel that one person acting alone can’t make a difference; watch 14 year-old Rachel Parent destroy CBC corporate shills, Kevin O’Leary and Amanda Long. The debate was about...
View ArticleThe City of London – and Why it Matters
If you’re unfamiliar with UK geography, then you might not know the difference between “greater London”– where the Queen resides -- and “The City of London”– where the London Stock Exchange is located....
View ArticleCanadian Company to Make the Fight Over the Keystone XL Pipeline Even More...
There’s a simple way for Canadians to take the spotlight off the Keystone XL pipeline.Find a way to make the fight even more offensive.In fact, they’ve learned the easiest way for a Canadian company to...
View ArticleDon't Vote
Don’t vote. Forget about handing out pamphlets, or making house calls. Don’t contribute. Do not attend political rallies or attend Party conventions. Ignore political polls. Log off your favorite...
View ArticleA Notable Shift in the Dialogue By Progressive Bloggers
For liberals the last two weeks have been pivotal.The notable shift -- by many prominent progressive bloggers -- from playing defense to taking the offense is a harbinger of things to come, and the...
View ArticleWhy Progressives Will Be Unfairly Blamed if There is a Midterm Election Loss
If you want to identify the most unpopular political entity in modern American history, then you need look no further than the current Republican Party. As of today’s date, according to a new Gallup...
View ArticleThe End of Neo-liberalism
In the fall of 2000, during an interview with Teresa Welch, a senior editor for the Austin Ledger, George W. Bush incurred the wrath of mainstream Republicans by making an off-the-cuff remark that...
View ArticleLessons Learned From a Stray Cat - A Celebration
Several years ago, a pitiful stray cat searching for food came to our back door. He had been beaten so badly he trembled uncontrollably, walking slowly and deliberately the same way a person in the...
View ArticleHow to Lose the 2014 Mid-term Elections in One Easy Step
A video posted today at Upworthy.com documents an unusual tactic employed by a group of environmental activists who are trying to gain the attention of John Kerry at the State Department. Concerned...
View ArticleA Response to the Third Way Article Posted at Politico
To the leadership of the Third Way:Your policies have failed.Despite your constant efforts to mask the truth, most Americans are intelligent enough to know the realities of their own lives. If they...
View ArticleObama Fatigue. Why 2/3 of U.S. Voters Want the Next President to Move in a...
A newly released ABC poll reaffirms what many Progressives have known for sometime -- the Democratic Party is in trouble. With two-and-one-half years left in Obama’s presidency, the American people, by...
View ArticleThe Washington Post is Wrong About Rahm Emanuel and Liberals
Neo-liberals have accrued a long track record of failed policies, not just in America, but globally, and yet, they have successfully avoided accountability for their misdeeds by transferring the blame...
View ArticleStop Lying
It’s indicative of the fragile propaganda that’s underpinning Democratic strategy when DNC leaders call for party unity at a time when they are coronating one of the most polarizing political figures...
View ArticleAmerica For Sale
In 2001, four months before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, I moved from a small town in the Midwest to San Clemente, California. The main artery leading from the sleepy coastal town...
View ArticleWhy The TPP is a Game Changer
In February 2008, with only two candidates left in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama distributed a flier to Ohio voters denouncing Hillary Clinton’s support of NAFTA....
View ArticleWhy Many Populists Are Abandoning The Democratic Party
On March 30, 2011, an international human rights observer witnessed and reported an unusually cruel and violent confrontation between a NY police officer and an Occupy Wall Street protester. While...
View ArticleA Response to Brooklyn Bad Boy
I think it is timely that Brooklyn Bad Boy presented an opposing view to the diary I posted yesterday. In fact, a discussion about the anger that is creating a huge rift in the Democratic Party is way...
View ArticleThe Bloodbath of 2016
Long before the 2014 midterm-elections, I was one of the few people on this site warning members of the Democratic Party to prepare themselves for huge losses during the midterm elections. For holding...
View ArticleThe Reason Hillary Clinton Refuses to Discuss the TPP
The TPP agreement has never been about helping average Americans obtain jobs. Its overarching purpose has been to ensure US corporations gain enough power to dominate international trade markets. More...
View ArticleThe Fight Over the TPP Has Created a Dilemma For Democrats
When grassroots activists and union leaders threatened to withhold campaign donations from Democratic Congressmen who voted for Fast Track, it should have been a wake up call for all Democrats. If...
View ArticleCongratulations. We’re all Republicans now.
Congratulations. We’re all Republicans now.After six years of forcing party members to support Republican and corporate drafted polices, Obama has finally made the transition complete: the Democratic...
View ArticleDem Senators Made Money Off Their Votes: You Get To Return to School
As a result of the 2010 and 2014 midterm “sit out” votes cast by angry Democratic voters, one thing was made explicitly clear: Democratic leaders seem incapable of learning from their mistakes. No...
View ArticleTrue Liberal vs. Too Liberal
Dear Senator McCaskill,Re: your appearance on Morning Joe, today: Thank you for being so candid about Senator Sander’s voting record. I think it opens up a great opportunity for Democrats to clear the...
View ArticleHow the TPP Will Impact the Outcome of the 2016 Presidential Elections
You’re life isn’t worth much.That statement doesn’t reflect my personal beliefs, but rather the consensus of government and corporate leaders who have deemed your lack of value a liability.If you don’t...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Civil Rights Record Should be Respected, Not Condemned
In the 1970s my wife was murdered, and my daughter – who was a toddler at the time – was kidnapped. It was the most horrifying experience I’ve ever endured. But as devastating as it was to learn of my...
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