OH redistricting fund drive: House in the balance?
From David Nir's front-page diary of earlier today:• OH Redistricting: Here's some very unhappy Ohio referendum news: Democrats say they're short of funds to complete their petition drive to put the...
View ArticleTake back the House: stop GOP gerrymander* of Ohio; $ needed
From David Nir's front-page diary of earlier today:• OH Redistricting: Here's some very unhappy Ohio referendum news: Democrats say they're short of funds to complete their petition drive to put the...
View ArticleAbandon ship? Best country for progressives to move to?
OK, if the Supremes strike down Obamacare, should we progressives just take our ball and go home? To a new home, that is, in a more sensible country?I hear it's hard for Americans to get immigration...
View Articlepot reform, marriage equality win TX-16
In a deep-blue Congressional district in Texas, Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke knocked off longtime incumbent Silvio Reyes in the primary, without (barely) a runoff.Kossacks more knowledgeable...
View ArticleRangel skullduggery? Primary do-over? Enthusiasm gap reason #973.
Charles Rangel, longtime ethically challenged Congressional rep from NY-15, first appeared to have won his primary last week over challenger Adriano Espaillat.But developments continue to develop.From...
View ArticleMy 10,001st DailyKos comment...
...will be the tip jar for this diary.I hope to accumulate enough mojo to earn an orange Christmas-tree plug-in-hybrid-car air freshener from the DKos Trusted User online store.Over the orange...
View Articlecable guy, Obama, Harry Reid, us
Kevin the cable guy came to my house to work on our cable hookup today. Our conversation shows why, in this election:* Obama is barely hanging onto a lead by his fingernails, and* the GOP is likely to...
View Articlecollection of Ryan fact-check links
The real news of the day seems to be about...the news. There's a sudden outbreak among journalists of, um, doing important journalistic work--that is, telling the public the truth.The important...
View ArticleNew blog: Bluestate Georgia
Folks, there's a dude in Georgia (yes, USA) named Larry Felton Johnson who's recently started a blog: Bluestate Georgia--Towards a Democratic Georgia.Larry has posted 8 diaries since going live on...
View ArticleMarijuana & Obama: a legal way out
The voters of Washington state and Colorado have put the Federal government, especially President Obama, in a bind by legalizing (to varying degrees) marijuana. Article II of the Constitution requires...
View Article"The major parties are the same"--disproven.
Today's DOMA decision was 5-4.As Jesse Jackson said in 2000, the three main reasons to vote Democratic are the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court.
View ArticleObama's new jobs speech: bullshit.
I regret to say that Obama's speech today on middle-class jobs is bullshit.Bullshit for what he says, and—more importantly—bullshit for what he doesn't say.Obama's speech today is bullshit in the sense...
View ArticleHoax? "Democrats Against UN Agenda 21"
This is going around Facebook as real: http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/It smells like a hoax to me. I've done some Googling and found no analysis of whether it's real or a scam. Surely it's a...
View Articlesustainable housing opportunity (possible) (updated w/picture)
I can't make promises. But I may know of a house that could be available for someone willing to put in some sweat and TLC.My mom inherited her old family home, on a large lot in a small college town in...
View ArticleThursday: national low-wage worker strike
This will be brief--just to get the word out--I see no other diaries on this now up. From today's Time:Fast Food Strikes Go Viral: Workers Expected to Protest Low Wages in 35 Cities ThursdayBy Victor...
View Articlemy Hurricane Katrina story
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Monday, August 29, 2005.Within a few days it became obvious that the people of Louisiana needed more help than they were getting.My church in the suburbs of Atlanta...
View ArticleHow every Congresscritter voted on shutdown & default (w/spotlight: Georgia)
Final vote in the US House on ending the shutdown and lifting the debt ceiling was 285 to 144:Republicans: 87 yes, 144 no, 1 not votingDemocrats: 198 yes, 0 no, 2 not votingIndependents: noneHow each...
View Articlemeta: embed image in comment? (have fun!) (update!)
If someone smarter than me will please explain a simple way to:(a) embed an image in a comment (not a diary), with(b) appropriate sizing of the image,I would greatly appreciate it.The instructions on...
View ArticleNext marriage equality target: Alabama!
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, challenging Alabama's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.The...
View ArticleDebunkings of Obamacare horror stories, collected
This is an attempt to collect, in one place, all the debunkings of all the right-wing Obamacare horror stories.If you know of any I missed, please add them in the comments.A number of the links in this...
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