Odom, Korb call for unilateral pullout
A recent diary on Kos laid out the scenario for the October Surprise in 2006, one having the Bush executive pull troops out of Iraq on a regular basis leading up to the November elections, the better...
View ArticleKosmix search engine
Tired of Googling for one reason or another? What about Kosmixing? This search engine, www.kosmix.com, which I recently found out about at www.politicaltheory.info (an excellent daily news sorter)...
View ArticleThe Road to Serfdom (Ironically)
In the 50s General Motors published a cartoon depicting "the road to serfdom." Obviously an anti-commie tract given the times. But seeing it today, it points directly at the tone of our times. It...
View ArticleClark, Schweitzer, Webb alliance
There's no known official alliance between these three politicians but consider the possibility that any of them in tandem would make a better ticket that one that's headed by Hillary or most any other...
View ArticleWe don't need "guest workers"
A majority of Americans react to the "illegal" part of illegal immigration before they can get to the "immigration" part. Just as Bush's illegal wiretapping has raised the ire of many Americans, so too...
View ArticleVenezuela has more oil than rest of world
According to the U.S Department of Energy, "Chavez controls 1.3 trillion barrels of oil - more than the entire declared oil reserves of the rest of the planet." This information comes from Greg...
View ArticleTotal Information Awareness to go
This is a short diary about an audio file a friend just sent me. The set up is a man ordering pizza from his workplace by phone to a pizza franchise. The employee at the pizza place is full of...
View Article10 year old charge against Conyers
Sidney Rooks, a former staffer in Conyers's office, is being put on television to talk about something that may have happened 10 years ago. Conyers office has released a statement saying that some...
View ArticleImmigration Advocates Speak Out for American Workers
The Nub of the Idea: Spokespeople for the Undocumented Laborers expand their advocacy to include the needs of all U.S. workers. The pitch: A national living wage and affordable health insurance for...
View Article8th General against Rummy led Millenium Challenge
The latest retired general to criticize the leadership and thinking of Rumsfeld is the very same general who led his team to victory in the war game (it was named "Millenium Challenge") prior to the...
View ArticleAir America to lose NYC flagship WLIB
Media Week is reporting this morning that WLIB, Air America's flagship station in NYC, will be taken over by P1, the outfit that manages Ed Schultz's show, among others. WLIB will continue with...
View ArticleW IS bad luck
The premise of this diary is: The stink of bad luck is on George W Bush and the damage caused by that stink is subconsciously more powerful than any reasoned argument against him and his administration...
View ArticleMaking the world free for defense contractors
Cheney's recent foray into foreign travel in Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan is just another in a long line of events that make it clear that the GOP agenda under Bush has nothing to do with defending...
View ArticleWhat rules can House/Senate Dems use?
Jonathan Turley told Randi Rhodes that he's surprised that the Dems aren't doing more with procedural moves to evidence their disagreement with and disapproval of the GOP agenda in Congress. While...
View ArticleHey Dem idiots! Dean gets it.
Kant's diary the other day called for the national Democrats to make the '06 elections about Rove vs. Murtha, comparing the former's fat-assed non-service to Murtha's exemplary record of military and...
View ArticleStep right up and get yer stems cells!
Randi Rhodes made the brilliant point today that if the GOP and the Fundies were so convinced that using blastocysts for research was murder, then PRIVATE INDUSTRY would be forbidden from pursuing such...
View ArticleGood riddance to Jeanane Garafalo
Small potatoes compared to the events of the world, and sort of a negative take on someone who may not deserve it on a personal level, but Garafalo is leaving The Majority Report this week, to return...
View ArticleCharles Barkley on Sportscenter: Income Inequality #1
I know Barkley's made news the past couple of days saying he was rich like a Republican, until they lost their minds. Great quote. Today he was interviewed on one of the Sportscenter shows, 2-3pm...
View ArticleArnold will win CA in Nov.
Flame me or don't. I'm not a "concern troll" or trying to gratutitously provoke a response. I'm going to vote for Angelides in November. But I was just going over the results of the poll taken by The...
View ArticleBush Brought to Heel
I live not too far from the Dog Psychology Center, Cesar Millan's canine clinic in South Central LA. Most dog owners may know something about Cesar Millan. He's got a cable show on the National...
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