Using abortion as a wedge to win - Minimum Wage
The Senate lineup assured that the minimum wage bill was going to be shot down. But we missed an opportunity. While Ted Kennedy talking about poverty being unacceptable in a rich nation is accurate and...
View ArticleWhy are the Dem candidates for NYC mayor so dull? Should I run?
I have respect for Anthony Weiner and Virginia Fields and Gifford Miller and Fernando Ferrer (though his Amadou Diallo gaffe was bad) for what they have done in service to the city. None are seemingly...
View ArticleThoughts on Passover, Dayenu and the West Bank
I am a New York City Jew. I have a great love and respect for my religious and cultural tradition but I don't feel mired in it or in anyway trapped by its mores or traditional worldview. I am not an...
View ArticleLast nail in the "Is Kurtz really a hack?" coffin
Just in case you were wondering if Howard Kurtz really is a hack or not despite the fact that on balance today's column really isn't so bad. Howie actually looks at the non-existent coverage of the...
View ArticleMake Kansas blue by invading it
Kansas is freaking a lot of us out lately. Evolution. Trying to redefine science. There is even the great book wondering out loud "What's The Matter With Kansas?" Kansas produces uninformed wingnuts at...
View ArticleLindy Davies, longshot for President in 2008
Looks like we have another long shot dark horse for the Democratic nomination in 2008. a one Lindy Davies, Director of The Henry George School in Chicago. He proposes his candidacy and platform here....
View ArticlePetrocollapse Conference: Oct. 5, 2005 NYC
Peak oil and energy issues have been discussed very impressively on this site - Devilstower and Jerome come immediately to mind as leaders in this subject. I have learned a lot from various posters in...
View ArticleThe architecture of Robert's confirmation
From US News and World ReportWhen John G. Roberts is approved as chief justice of the United States, as expected, he can thank President Bush 's "Friends & Allies" program, which went to work on...
View ArticlePhilly Kossacks - Fix your property taxes the progressive way this Saturday
While I am from New York City and live there I have a special place for Philadelphia and I keep up to date with its politics and the goings-on in related fields. Philadelphia is (and has been) very...
View ArticleEnd of Suburbia - Has anyone seen this film?
Has any one here seen the newish documentary called "The End of Suburbia"? The website is http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ With all the excitemnt, and rightfully so, about the Wal Mart documentary I...
View ArticleDo you really want progressive taxation? - Henry George has got one for you
All this talk about better and more progressive taxation in diaries as of late makes me want to bring up a not often talked about mode of taxation. But the Land Value Tax - a very practical and...
View ArticleDear New Orleans, Here is how to recover from destruction. Love, San Francsico
Jerome A Paris has great diary currently found on the rec list pointing out how much oil companies are struggling still with the damage done to infrastructure by Katrina. I understand the struggle but...
View ArticleWhat Fox says about Fake News vs. Real News
Julia Fox that is... Julia R. Fox is an assistant professor of telecommunications at University of Indiana who has done a great service with two grad students by spending valuable time watching the...
View ArticleLaura Bush expresses profound economic idea about poverty - clearly doesnt...
According to this article Laura Bush is really interested in Burma/Myanmar.Who knew?She has been a consistent critic of the military junta and a supporter of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi....
View ArticleNYC - The Spin; Improvised Political Satire, UCB Theater - Tuesdays at 11pm
We all know liberals are funnier than well...anyone. But while we love our Stewarts and Colberts and Bill in Portland Maines- they get time to prepare their eviscerations of political foolishness,...
View ArticleObama wants WHO as VP? Rumor from DNC friend
Here is where I am...I was a serious Edwards guy.I was excited by not only his positions but his potential to empower the party and move Democrats forward into a new style of governance.I have now...
View ArticleAnother reason why monocrops and extinctions are bad
I think we sort of react instinctively when we hear that an animal or plant goes on the endangered species list. Even though different species or plant and animal have come and gone over the billions...
View ArticleKossack does good - now help name my film
I have been around dailykos since its Movable Type days. I have gained immeasurably by the writings and efforts by the front pagers and the community as a whole and the places they have directed my...
View ArticleNY- Gov Spitzer involved with prostitution - Resigning - UPDATE 3 with...
WHAT?Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring By DANNY HAKIM Published: March 10, 2008ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a...
View ArticleOn Paulsons' regulations: an animal farm analogy
The Fox knocks on the Farmers door and offers him a bribe if he will give the Fox access to his Chickens.The Farmer takes the money and gives the keys to the Hen House to the Fox, who then...
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