Obama Rips Off Romney's Teflon: slam dunk win [Updated w/ pic, poll]
WOWWW!! That's my President!!! Mitt Romney with his Teflon removed by President Obama, second presidential debate.President Obama delivered the performance that progressives wanted and felt they...
View ArticleOhio online poll being Freeped; needs some Smurf-love
This poll at Cincinatti.com is either being Freeped, or (more ominously) their software is off and the results are switched.Assuming it's the former: some blue attention is in order:...
View ArticleRomney Losing MA = as Big as Gore Losing TN. Where's the media??
Why isn't the media jumping all over the fact that Mitt Romney, former Gov. of Massachusetts, is behind Obama in Massachusetts polls by a 39-57 margin? MA voters know Romney -- and most aren't voting...
View ArticleRomnesia: first known use of word, April 2011?
Just curious, what is the earliest recorded use of this pithy neologism?The earliest I've found, so far, is from April 4, 2011: the title of a post on A Healthy Blog: http://blog.hcfama.org/... I...
View ArticleCan we all please work to LOWER expectations for Monday's debate?
I've commented on this elsewhere, but maybe it's time for a short diary.Every campaign strategist knows that one should lower expectations ahead of a debate, and raise the expectations of your...
View Article"Revenge of the Reality-Based Community": must-read article by ex-GOP...
Kudos to DailyKos diarist(s) Roosevelt Institute for spotting the article this morning, and succinctly summarizing it, as follows:Bruce Bartlett explains how he got shunned and excommunicated from the...
View ArticleTry saying it out loud: "We should repeal or amend the 2nd Amendment." (w/...
[Update: I'll write more about this when some work deadlines are over, but a quick note for now is in order. For weeks, the poll below reflected that about 70% of DailyKos members support repeal or...
View ArticleRodrigo Abad Diaz, 22, Killed by NRA-Fox-GOP Stochastic Terrorism
At least one of the vignettes from Tom Begnal for Jan 29, 2012 deserves wider attention:Lilburn, Ga. -- A 22-year-old man was fatally shot about 10 p.m. Saturday after the GPS in his car directed him...
View Article"Open-Carry" poster boy arrested on gun-related charges
Four days ago, Dereck J. Simonsmeier, 24 (pictured left, wearing grey-black), of Wisconsin whined in an op-ed that he was asked to leave a Pick 'N Save store (owned by Roundy’s Inc.) for openly...
View ArticleShould we amend the US Constitution? Justice Stevens thinks so, incl. 2nd...
Six Amendments (book cover), by Justice John Paul Stevens As if on cue, US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (ret.) has written a new book, titled Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the...
View ArticleMalaysian Airlines MH370: any insights from EgyptAir MS667's cockpit fire?
I'm not sure which is worse: the hype and disinformation on mass media about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, the irresponsible lack of candor, clarity, and timely information and responses from...
View ArticleArm yourself: *read* Breyer's dissent in McCutcheon v FEC
Breyer writes in clear English. His arguments (signed with Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan) are as informed and articulate a defense of campaign finance laws as you will find. It's better and more...
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