Free Lunch, a must-read expose.
David Cay Johnston, investigative reporter for the New York Times, is being interviewed by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air" at the moment on Public Radio.Topics include:How could we have 30 years of...
View ArticlePhillip and A Gnostic Moment
RulersThe Rulers wanted to fool us, since they say we were connected with the good. They took the names of the good and gave them to the not good so with names they could trick and rope us to the not...
View Article2007: Swine Flu, New and Improved!
It was discovered in 2007 that the theory of Pigs and Ponds as mixing bowls for new strains of influenza was correct. Granted, the virus discovery in pigs in Missouri is an H2N2, not the H1N1 type we...
View ArticleCheaply Bought; Let us Write Them today.
Lately, I have been wondering what a regular, average Joe can do to make an serious impact on the Health Care options being poured in cement this week as Ezra Klein so aptly states in his editorial...
View ArticleCongress must declare war.
The US Consitution is clear. Congress must declare war. The War Powers Act is an unconstitutional overreach, since the Constitution says nothing about the ablilty of Congress to give up its...
View ArticleThank you, Daily Kos.
But I am going over to the Pacific Green Party. I know, I know. There are only 250,000 Registered Greens in the US at the moment, and it seems quite impossible that a Green could EVER be elected to the...
View ArticleEducation for the 51% in Poverty
Half of the children in the United States, by some measures of poverty, now live in poverty or within the condition known as "food insecure." Of the several measures of poverty in America, food...
View ArticleOregon Democrats Fail: Call Now.
Three of the four House of Representative Democrats in Oregon have voted for TPP already, and with the decisive vote coming up today after noon, Oregon Democrats have an opportunity this morning to...
View ArticleDavid Brooks, Wrong Again.
On the Friday evening broadcast of The PBS News Hour with Judy Woodruff interviewing, Mark Shields and David Brooks commented on the news of the week, the horrible and the hopeful. Follow below the...
View ArticleTeddy Roosevelt: Progressive Social Republican
Only 103 short years ago, a President gave this speech to his supporters, the Progressive Party of the United States, after the speaker rejected both parties as being tools of the monied elites. He had...
View ArticleKoch Sez: End Corporate Welfare?
Have the hinges of hell frozen over? Has the Plus-Sized Lady sung the finale? Have Porcine avians come home to roost? What in the heck is going on here?
View ArticleSanders Leads Trump to Policy
Has anyone else noticed how Bernie's Campaign is now influencing the GOP, especially Donald Trump's speeches and policy positions? In recent days, the GOP front runner came into the public view with...
View ArticleDisappointed...
I am disappointed that Senator Bernie Sanders has said the Hilary Clinton is not qualified to be President. As a Bernie supporter and pretty vocal partisan here, I find it, personally, to be an...
View ArticleBrandenburg v. Ohio: Is the RNC Inciting Violence for Political Terror?
The Incitement Test (Brandenburg)"The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where...
View ArticleOregon, rise up. Support Progressive Income.
More than a third of Oregon households are under or near the poverty line. Let me say that again. 40 percent of Oregonians are food insecure, housing insecure or medically insecure, or all three,...
View ArticleLEAD, Democrats. Now or Never. LEAD.
Tragically Divided Liberal/Progressive/Democratic leadership and followership is the problem today, two days before the Electoral College. Any party worth its salt would have found a plausible strategy...
View ArticleSocial Democracy; What it is and Why it Matters.
At the moment, it would seem America is suffering through a deep state of misinformation and emotional trauma. The causes of this in any Democracy are usually different, but some general patterns can...
View ArticleOne World, Ready or Not.
Way, way back in 1997, a former Rolling Stone and Washington Post Investigative reporter by the name of William Greider wrote a book. It was called, “One World, Ready or Not.” You can still read this...
View ArticleDemocrats Fail at Being Republicans, 1980-2016.
The reasons for our division here at DKos and in the Democratic Party is because we Democrats were coerced, persuaded and co-opted into the Reagan Republican galaxy of philosophies, which won over the...
View ArticleJefferson; Socialism versus Aristocracy
I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European...
View ArticleSen. Pat Roberts, be very afraid.
Here is my recent letter to Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, who recently in a hearing on a Drumpf nominee, said to Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, that he should take a Valium before the next round of questions....
View ArticleUnion Leadership stolen by Nationalist Fascists
I guess the real news here is just too harsh to take. The NeoFascist Administration of DJT has now officially taken a large chunk of the Union Movement away from the Democratic Party, and is working to...
View ArticleJefferson, Constitutionalist, vs. President Bannon.
“Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or...
View ArticleDemocrats betray Education, repeatedly, and expect teachers, parents and...
Hello Progressive Education Fans!The linky thing down there near the bottom is from Dr. Diane Ravitch. She, in addition to being the most acclaimed educational researcher in America, as if that is not...
View ArticleTimed Out, Cruel World. TOCW.
I am giving myself a Time Out. I have no idea how long it will last.I find it the only thing I can do when the Owner and Publisher of the Daily Kos uses the same words to smear my point of view as the...
View ArticleFlake and Corker: Thanks for Nothing.
For those of us who may be tempted to congratulate the “Moral Clarity” of Sens. Jeff Flake(R-Moral Opaqueness) and Bob Corker (R-Quit When You are Needed Most), this year’s award winning “Lame Duck by...
View ArticleFedEx Feels the Wrath
Diane Ravitch. Her name should live in Golden Lights. Her credentials, research, books and her ideas are legendary, and her blogging about education, policy, democrats, and the current pResident is...
View ArticleCourage, the Inexhaustible Quantity
William Faulknerwww.nobelprize.org/...Banquet speechWilliam Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 *Ladies and gentlemen,I feel that this award was not...
View Article"Surely you have a better man than that."
We are all familiar with the “revolving door” between Defense Technology Corporations, The Pentagon and Civilian appointees of the President.This practice, common since WW2, is both credited with...
View ArticleColombia Mobilizes against Neoliberal Theft and Murder; National Strike today.
A National Strike today has closed all business, schools, offices and public venues today in Colombia. Demonstrations are happening in every city and village in the country to protest murder, taxing...
View ArticlePay a Federal Bounty for each Covid Shot: $1500, $2500 and $3500 for each.
1000 people per day are dying of COVID. Each one costs the health care system $500,000 to $1 million dollars to treat. Half of that expense comes from the US Federal Government, in the form of...
View ArticleBiden Says Go Ahead!: Private Equity Blackstone Group may Raid your 401K and...
In a Biden cave-in reversal to Blackstone Group investment, the WORLD’s largest “private equity” firm (A “business” run by Stephen Schwartzman to skim by way of “fees” and “investment consultations”...
View Article'Beyond Vietnam' A Speech by The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break SilenceDelivered 4 April, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Excerpted from The Speech...
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