News O' The Day: Gonzales Defends Coming to Work Pantless
Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General that has been embroiled in a scandal involving eight fired US Attorneys, came in to work today not wearing pants, according to several insider sources.
View ArticleNo Knock Raids: A Travesty of Justice
Today, CNN reported that two police offers pled guilty in the killing of a 92 year old woman in Atlana. How did this come about, you wonder? Due to yet another one of our liberties that have been taken...
View ArticleIntroducing our new War Czar... Zapp Brannigan!
Today, President George W. Bush and the White House administration announced that they had finally found someone willing to be the new War Czar in charge of overseeing Iraq operations "24/7". The man...
View ArticleOrwell vs the Administration: A War of Words
Orwell was highly interested in language, and how people speak. The revolutionary premise behind 1984 was that the population was controlled, more than anything, by language. Reduce the amount of...
View ArticleWhy the Right Wing is Wrong for Ron Paul
Note: Updated upon reading commentsAfter the debates we viewed yesterday, and the commentary surrounding them at right-wing websites, it can be no doubt that the Republican party has given up trying to...
View ArticleWhat Dems could learn from the New England Patriots
Alright Democrats out there, planning to vote on a bill that will give Bush a blank check, listen up. I don't know if you watch football, but you're about to get a lesson from the 2001 New England...
View ArticleOrdered to Shelter
I just received order that I will be sheltering on Keesler AFB instead of evacuating. Meanwhile the wife will be evacuating to Birmingham, Alabama.
View ArticleFraming the Bailout: No "Amnesty" for Wall Street!
Now that Republicans have been shown to enjoy "safety-net" policies as much as Democrats do, let's use their own words against them in another way.
View ArticleA Letter to my Representative: Vote "No" on this Bailout Bill
After reading the bailout bill proposed by the House, I have decided to write a letter to my representatives.Feel free to use this letter as a template, or write your own. Citizens should be powering...
View ArticleThe Bailout and Game Theory
Game theory has always been a hobby of mine. Though I've never studied professionally, I've done research online. The bailout has intrigued me greatly, as it seems a great study down the road for...
View ArticleWhat Brought you to DailyKos?
After reading a fellow diarist detail how the words of Bill O'Reilly brought him to DailyKos (ah, one must love unintended consequences!), I figured it would be interesting to have an article in which...
View ArticleWhat Makes One "Progressive"?
I have been thinking lately about the people that post on DailyKos. We all have different agendas, different backgrounds, different views. Is there one thing that unites us all? (Other than our hatred...
View ArticleProgressive Priorities: We Can't Afford to Be Complacent!
We have shown the world how strong the netroots influence can be, and helped deliver a mandate for Democratic policies. Now that we've elected these better Democrats, what policies do we want them to...
View ArticleDemocratic Taxation
With the economy in a mess, and a war going on over bailouts left and right, it got me to thinking: What's the best way to determine what the general public thinks our tax money should be spent on?
View ArticleThumbs Up to Fisher House Foundation, Thumbs Down to Rep. Pitts
It's amazing, isn't it? When you shut down large swathes of government, sometimes things that Republicans like are affected! Now, you would think they learned this, after the Memorial debacle,...
View ArticleLead article from National Review Online? "The Way Out"
Could it be? Have Republicans started paying attention to facts? Did the realization that they might be responsible next week for breaking the world economy sink in? Let's find out together, shall we?
View ArticleSinging Amazing Grace? Really Republicans? Really?
According to Politico (http://www.politico.com/...)In the House Republican conference meeting Tuesday, leadership put up a slide that read “Senate Jam.”At the beginning of the meeting, Republicans sang...
View Article2 dead in shooting at Lackland AFB, TX
Today, there was a shooting at Lackland AFB that left two dead. According to this CNN article:http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/us/texas-lackland-shooting/index.htmlIt was an airman who shot his squadron...
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