The National Catholic Reporter Prints a Pro-Marriage Equality Opinion Piece
Progressive Christians have a hard time getting their views into mainstream discourse. Popular media, eager for sensationalism, far prefers the religious right to the religious left. For progressive...
View ArticleReports: Timbuktu Manuscripts Threatened By Mali Insurgents; Some Saved
UPDATE: A report by Time says that manuscripts in one library earlier reported destroyed are safe, having been smuggled out of Timbuktu before insurgents took control of the city. News is leaking out...
View ArticleUSA Today: Atrios Says, "401(k)s Are a Disaster;" Raise Social Security...
The big Pale Blue guy has an online column on USA Today.
View ArticleYou People Get Back to Work, or Marissa Mayer Will Take Over Your Company and...
New Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has sparked outrage and open derision from technology professionals with her recently command that Yahoo! employees stop working from home and come into the office every day.
View ArticleWHOA! Holy Carp.
This great video from YouTube user politizane has been making the rounds for a couple of weeks. I'm sure you've seen it, as it has appeared a couple of times on Daily Kos and doubtless in your Facebook...
View ArticleHost of TV Show "A Rifleman's Journal" Shot and Killed in Montana, Followed...
Gunz:Police in northwestern Montana say a man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show A Rifleman’s Journal while the TV personality was visiting the shooter’s wife. Whitefish police say...
View Article6 Shot, 4 Dead, Killer on the Loose in New York State
The latest in our current drama, "AMERICA, A CELEBRATION OF GUNZ!!!1"
View ArticleYep. Fox's Bill O'Reilly, Traditional Marriage Advocate, Recently Got a Nasty...
Bill O'Reilly, proud patriot, proud American Catholic, proud advocate of "traditional" marriage ...Is coming out of a nasty, nasty, nasty divorce.
View ArticleIt's Okay for Christians to Celebrate Easter, Too
This wonderful diary entry by Purple Priestess is full of fun info and is a great reminder about the origins of Easter.It follows on a very strange Facebook post by Richard Dawkins on the same topic,...
View ArticleHoly Jesus. NYT's Keller Calls on Obama to Appoint KENNETH STARR to...
I can't stop laugh-crying.
View ArticleDetroit Emergency Manager Considers Selling off Matisses, Van Goghs in...
In Michigan, everything is for sale!Or it might be, if "emergency manager" Kevyn Orr decides to sell of the multi-billion dollar collection of fine art in the city's art museum to pay off its debts.
View ArticleIf You Read This, You Will Laugh
My apologies for the short diary, but I have to share this. I don't want to describe the article on the other side of this link, though you might deduce what it is about from the title. Please do...
View ArticleObama Should Use the Phone Records to Uncover Adultery Among GOP House Members
Come on, folks. Let's get real. Politics is hardball.The Obama Administration should use the phone records that it is collecting to uncover adultery and other blackmailable activity on the part of...
View ArticleWe Must Pray for Obama to Endure this NSA Leak Scandal
I'm sick of these leakers attacking our president and his administration. It doesn't matter how you feel about NSA surveillance, leaking is never okay.
View ArticleBooz Allen Is Owned By the Carlyle Group
In case you were wondering if there would be any repercussions against them in the wake of the Snowden mess.
View ArticleNo, Edward Snowden Is Not a 'Traitor'
Over the last 24 hours, we've seen dozens of high-profile politicians in both parties step before the microphone, each obediently repeating the words that they have been given to speak:"Edward Snowden...
View ArticleAPB for New York Area Kossacks: 5:30 PM at Stonewall Inn
Hi folks,In response to today's Supreme Court rulings on DOMA and California Proposition 8:The Stonewall Democrats of New York City are putting on a hell of a party tonight from 5:30 to 8:00 pm....
View ArticleBreaking: Obama Puts 4-Star General Under Investigation for Leaks to New York...
Retired four-star general James E. Cartwright of the United States Marines has been put under investigation by the Obama Administration, according to a new article on the New York Times website.
View ArticleSoledad O'Brien Joins Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera America confirmed this morning that former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien has moved to their network.
View ArticleI Doubt the NSA Knows What Data It Has, Where It Came from, Who Has Accessed...
I'm going to make a guess here.
View ArticleBolivian President Not Free to Move Around the World Without Permission from...
Well, this was a big, big, big mistake.
View ArticleIf the Security of Our Country Rests on Secrets, We've Got a Problem
I was just reading this provocative diary entry and musing ...If the security of our country rests on secrets, we've got a problem.A big one.
View ArticleDetroit Emergency Manager Approves Go-Ahead on New $450 Million Sports Arena
More evidence that the effort to bankrupt Detroit is ideologically, rather than fiscally driven:New $444 Million Hockey Arena Is Still a Go in Detroit.
View ArticlePennsylvania's Marriage Equality Limbo: Just ... Wow
Sumpin' odd is going on in Pennsylvania.
View ArticleShould Daily Kos Start Its Own Free Encrypted E-Mail Service?
Even though Washington thinks that savvy businessmen are located exclusively on Wall St. and run from the manor houses in the Hamptons/St. Tropez/Aspen where their executives live and vacation ...
View ArticlePfc. Manning Statement Re: Gender Identity on Today Show
The Army private who pled guilty to leaking confidential material gave this statement:
View ArticleNASDAQ Trades Halted
The NASDAQ has been down for about 90 minutes following a "technical glitch."
View ArticleWhoa: New York Times Now Has Snowden Docs Carried By Secret Courier into the US
And now the plot really thickens, as the New York Times enters the fray.
View ArticleNYT: Obama Asks Netanyahu, AIPAC to Lobby Congress for Syria Strike
I do not think that this is especially wise.
View ArticleWas the NSA Spying on Congress, Obama Administration?
How many of us really believe that Dianne Feinstein cares whether the NSA was spying on the German Chancellor?
View ArticleBreaking: U.S. Confirms Israel Was Responsible for Today's Strike at Syrian...
CNN doesn't have much yet but there will be more to come.
View ArticleIf You Could Be Pulled Over and Raped Roadside By Cops at Any Time, Would It...
Over the last couple weeks, news outlets have reported several high profile cases where police pulled over motorists, raped them anally and vaginally roadside and then took them to a hospital where...
View ArticleIranian Embassy in Beirut Bombed; At Least 22 Dead
Strife continues -- does it ever let up? -- in the Middle East.
View ArticleU.S. Citizenship Should Be Automatic And Compulsory for All Residents After 5...
The New York Times is offering you -- surprise, surprise -- this suggestion on behalf of the 1%.In the article, they advise the creation of a permanent guestworker underclass in America, because, you...
View ArticlePope Francis Comforts the Poor; NYC Cardinal Dines at Wall St. Event Honoring...
It's hard to imagine a greater contrast between the new Pope in the Vatican and the hard-right, cold-hearted, greedy American church hierarchy than this.
View ArticleBig Trouble in Little Crimea
Armed gunmen have taken over airports in two cities in the Crimea, a historically-Russian region ceded to Ukraine in the 1950s and now part of the independent Ukrainian state.
View ArticlePutin Just Doesn't Understand the Neoliberal Consensus
He doesn't understand the way the world works now!
View ArticleEurope's Russian Gazproblem
Like most in the Daily Kos community, I want Barack Obama to start a nuclear war with Russia as soon as possible. I'm not a sucker for Russian propaganda! Unfortunately, this is not going to happen. In...
View ArticleGays Went Too Far on Brendan Eich
I'm really concerned about what happened to Brendan Eich last week.
View ArticleMore on Why Oklahoma Will Always Be a Poor State
Oklahoma ranks at the bottom of every measure. It's dirt poor. It's people have poor rates of education. Their incomes are low. It's a bad place to live.
View ArticleThe Nephew Just E-mailed Me. He's in Ukraine and says Putin Is Going to...
The Nephew just e-mailed me. He's in Ukraine and he says that Putin is planning to invade Poland!
View ArticleCasey Kasem Has Passed Away
News outlets are reporting that Casey Kasem has passed away.
View ArticleAnti-Hillary Hysteria Returns to Daily Kos
She's a bitch! She's racist! She's a rich racist bitch who is out of touch! She's Hillary! And we're Daily Kos, duly repeating every piece of messaging that comes out of the RNC to describe her.
View ArticleReport Shows Obama's Negotiators in Trans-Pacific Trade Scheme Being Paid...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is widely believed to be in the process of transferring significant regulatory power from sovereign governments to private industry, specifically to...
View ArticleI Think Our Imminent Attack on Syria Will Turn Out Pretty Well
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is suggesting that it's time for military action in Syria.
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