My First Diary
Pasted below is the letter I wrote today to Daniel Okrent, Public Editor for New Pravda. Atrios finally motivated me to write the prick. Dear Mr. Okrent: I just read your latest and have finally...
View ArticleWaPo Mouths Bushco on Vote Fraud
WaPo did its best today to innoculate the public against any outrage at Republican attempts to steal the election. The thrust was that Democrats are doing it too -- they even registered Mary Poppins!...
View ArticleEl Chimpo Splashes Giant NYC Billboard
Remember the painting of Bush's face made up of monkeys? It closed an art gallery in Chelsea a week or so ago when the owner grew incensed upon seeing what he thought was an insult to, well, Chimpy....
View ArticleBillmon Surfaces in Best Blog Thread Ever
If you want to see one form of how great blogging can be (and in the meantime learn a lot about how perilously close the world economy is to meltdown) check out the parallel and intertwining threads...
View ArticleDelay: The Next Corrupt Shoe Drops
The L.A. Times advances the DeLay story its next sorry step, uncovering yet another cynical scam. The story tells a tale of corruption right out of Mark Twain's The Gilded Age. More below the fold.
View ArticleBringing Sheehan Local: What Experience Means
This is the front page lead story in the local paper about about my assistant taking off on the spur of the moment to visit Camp Casey in Crawford. It's a tale of what the Democratic Party's fearsome...
View ArticleBillmon's Back With Flair
This is a public service announcement. Yes, I know, it's bad form to have a diary just pointing to something someone else posted. But Billmon is special. So sue me; I write about two diaries a year....
View ArticleAn Enron Primer
This is a very lightly edited version of a comment I posted yesterday at TNH. I don't normally write diaries, but thought this might be interesting to a wider audience. The main issue at the Enron...
View ArticleMcNerney Wins
It's over. CNN, the SF Chronicle have both called CA-11 for McNerney. The CA Secretary of State has him winning 53.3 to 47.7 with 90% reporting. Hats off to kid oakland, Land of Enchantment, all the...
View ArticleDeLong on Clinton and Health Care Reform
For those of you who are interested, Brad DeLong has reincarnated an old piece he wrote on the Clinton Administration's attempt to reform health care. Brad worked on that project, so his insights are...
View ArticleFitzgerald Indicts Obama Patron
It's not as if Obama is in the same league as Duke Cunningham, but it doesn't really look good. Chicago real estate connecto Tony Rezko gave Obama some really timely help in buying a fancy, very nice...
View ArticleObama's Bi-Partisanship and Nuclear Power
Barak Obama sold out his constituents to the nation's largest operator of nuclear plants -- and one of his major contributors. The typical Washington cave-in happened when Obama's constituents were...
View ArticleClinton Admin Sold Out Ozone Layer to Pass NAFTA
In 1993 it was questionable whether Bill Clinton would have the votes to get the North American Free Trade Agreement through Congress. So he did something he almost never did for any other cause. He...
View ArticleWill Clinton Denounce Pedophilia's Crooner?
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Hillary Clinton is a "big fan of the Rolling Stones." So am I.
View ArticleJohn Ensign a Resource in Hard Times
The Rachel Maddow Show last night detailed how John Ensign's parents had each written $12,000 checks to Senator Ensign's mistress, to her husband, and to each of two of their children. These were...
View ArticleIs Pelosi Too Effective to be a San Franciscan?
In the wake of Nancy Pelosi's success in getting health insurance reform through Congress, pundits still can't resist punching phantom hippies. Today's Abbreviated Pundit Roundup featured a column by...
View ArticleWI-Senate: Thompson Won't Run Against Feingold
Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson announced today that he will not be running against incumbent senator Russ Feingold. Thompson's announcement appears to put Feingold's seat in...
View ArticleJerry Brown's Great New Ad
It's been gratifying to see that Jerry Brown is pulling away from Meg Whitman in the race for California's governor. Most people seem to focus on what Whitman has done wrong -- her troubles with her...
View ArticleAnother Brilliant Move by Jerry Brown
Jerry and Meg met again this week at a women's conference. Matt Lauer moderated it. Brown punked Whitman in brilliant fashion. He made her look really bad. And that's fun to watch. But the video is...
View ArticleWalker Favors Gun Control
The list of items banned from the Wisconsin Capitol building is somewhat astounding. Easels? Crockpots? Massage Chairs? Vuvuzelas. Easy to understand how things like that would be threatening to...
View ArticleMatt Stoller on What Schneiderman tells us About Obama and Ourselves
Usually it is the great bobswern who brings us news from the pages of Naked Capitalism. But I don't see one of his posts up today, so I thought I would bring today's readers one of the best pieces I...
View ArticleAl Gore Comes Out Swinging at Obama
I was wondering when or whether this might happen. I guess one of the benefits of being retired from electoral politics is that it gives you a little independence. I a show of resolve that he never...
View ArticleFBI Raids Home of Top Scott Walker Aide
The F.B.I. has served a search warrant on a top aide to Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker. The aide is Cynthia Archer, who had been one of Walker's top aides while he was Milwaukee County Executive....
View ArticleGrayson Wins in FL?
Just saw on the screen that MSNBC projects Alan Grayson as winning back his house seat. If so, that's great news and a harbinger
View ArticleHere's to the Republicans
They never give up and they fight hard no matter what the odds. What happened in Virginia's governor's race is a good example. The polls had McAuliffe an average of more than seven points ahead. All...
View ArticleWingnut Welfare Recipient Dinesh D'Souza Indicted for Campaign Finance Fraud
This is going to be a very short diary. Long-time right wing pundit, lifetime recipient of wingnut welfare (going back to his days at the Dartmouth Review) Dinesh D'Souza has been indicted in New York...
View ArticleChina's Take on Happenings in the Ukraine
It has taken until today for China to react officially to the Russia's sending of troops into the Crimea. I was curious what China's position would be, since it jealously defends its territorial...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin on Bush and Putin
For me this pretty much summed it up. Where was John McCain when this was happening?Bush and Putin talk together, To each other's charms succumb. Bush thinks Putin can be trusted. Putin thinks that...
View ArticleIF THEY MAKE MUSLIMS REGISTER
During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the Nazis required Jews to wear yellow stars of David. The non-Jewish Danes — including the King of Denmark — donned yellow stars of David.I was raised as a...
View ArticleTRUMP SUPPORTER ARRESTED FOR PLAN TO BOMB MUSLIMS
Police in Richmond, California have arrested a man who said he was making bombs “with the intent of harming the Muslim community.” A tip came into the police on December 17 saying that a man was...
View ArticleIf Clinton Wins Nomintion: A Possible Strategy
Watching Drumph’s press conference last night I was in turns repelled, fascinated and frightened. The themes he was outlining for the general election (and that is what he was doing) were all about...
View ArticleIs Our Front Page Learning?
Or just a coincidence? Just now, scrolling through the entire front page, there wasn’t a single Trump story. If the editors are responding to creative department (diaries) prodding, that’s great...
View ArticleClinton's Recent Approach to Sanders Bespeaks Tactical Inflexibility and...
This diary assumes that Clinton is the inevitable Democratic nominee and that she knows this. I focus here on evaluating how she is handling this new reality in light of the unexpectedly strong...
View ArticleZephyr Teachout Comes Up With a Creative New Approach to Combat Big Money...
Zephyr Teachout is running for Congress in the Obama +1 NY-19. This is a seat we can flip, as the incumbent Republican is retiring. Teachout has come up with a new tactic and turned it into a great...
View ArticleWhat the Heck is Going on in Kansas?
Until a few minutes ago Chris Reeves had a confusing story up on the Recommended List. It was about a meeting of the Kansas Democratic Party and the race for DNC Chair. It was hard to follow the...
View ArticleChina Threatens Both U.S. and North Korea re Potential War in Northeast Asia
China has responded to escalating tensions in the Korean Peninsula by threatening both North Korea and the U.S. According to Zero Hedge, China has told the U.S. that it will fight to defeat any attack...
View ArticleBeware: There are Violent Anti-Nazi Nutcases Who Will Try to Wreck Anti-Nazi...
I have written about this before, so if you’ve seen it, forgive me. There are violent, scary people who will be perceived to be on the anti-Nazi/KKK side. They are a political time bomb waiting to...
View ArticleJudges in Trump-Russia Prosecutions are both Obama Appointees
Both of the judges drawn for the Trump-Russia defendants were appointed by President Barack Obama. These judges are Amy Berman and Randolph Moss. Because of the federal rule concerning related cases,...
View ArticleI Was Sexually Assaulted; What Should I Do?
It was the spring of 1976. I was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, a mere lad of twenty. There was this older woman (mid-30’s) who was in a couple of classes with me. We were...
View ArticleThere's Something in the Air
Change is coming to California's North Coast.For ten years I’ve been on the Board of the Westhaven Community Services District; we are a local public agency that provides drinking water to 237...
View ArticleA Report from Westhaven
Westhaven, California is a small unincorporated rural area 300 miles north of San Francisco. It is a very liberal community. Bernie won Westhaven. So did Jesse Jackson. I’ve been voting at the...
View ArticleKamala Harris Was Not a Progressive Prosecutor
Lara Bazelon has a profile of Kamala Harris’s years as a prosecutor in today's New York Times that should be required reading if you want to have context for the kinds of claims Harris makes about her...
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