ACTION: JetBlue Demands Blogger Remove T-Shirt UPDATED
On August 12th, JetBlue and TSA officials confronted a passenger getting on a JFK-Oakland flight, and demanded he remove his T-shirt, which said "we will not be silent" -- a quotation from the early...
View ArticleJetBlue Boycott Succeeding! Investor Relations ACTION!
We had a startling success on Sunday - a JetBlue boycott launched right here with tremendous force, to defend an innocent blogger's rights. Hundreds of participants here have already joined -...
View ArticleMmm, More Macaca! - Chambliss STILL Fights Civil War
Before this summer, many Kossacks would meet this with denial. After all, who could believe the wild theory that Republicans are racists who view Lincoln's 1865 victory as the first empty "Mission...
View ArticleDems (and Kos?) Rally Around Bush, Finally!
We all have heard how Hugo Chavez is an evil, dangerous, thuggish clown for referring to President Bush as "El Diablo" this week, blasting his policies and mentioning his arrogance and even his...
View ArticleWhy Don't Webb, Ford and Fleming Oppose Racism?
Even with all the Macaca moments, slimy attacks on Hispanics, and now even racist RNC ads, none of the Democrats has dared to say the obvious:The right wing and the Republicans are today's White Power...
View ArticleJimmy Carter's Palestine book - no DKos debate?
Two weeks ago former President Jimmy Carter, who led the talks that produced lasting peace between Israel and Egypt, published his book on achieving peace in Palestine. But it has hardly been...
View ArticleLeaked Iraqi Training Curriculum
There is overwhelming bipartisan consensus that a renewed focus on training the Iraqis is our best hope for a positive outcome in Iraq. We have obtained a draft of the planned training curriculum:...
View ArticleKennedy: Time to "Justify" Iraq Escalation??
I just got a bizarre note and petition from Ted Kennedy, asking me to encourage the president to "make the case" for a troop surge and "justify" it so Americans can get behind it and Congress can...
View ArticleKos Redacts Polls Where Kucinich Beats Hillary
Kos conducted a 2008 Dem candidates poll on January 16th where over 22,000 Kossacks participated. The results were impressive: Dennis Kucinich beats presumptive frontrunner Hillary Clinton in this...
View Article"Stay the Course" In Iraq = Dem Victory!
The fantastic turnaround that's happened this month is: if the Iraq war continues with only the slight surge that's happening now, it'll be a plain victory for our party and our country.Just 2 months...
View ArticleGOP Joins Progressives Against Democrats' Iraq War?
The Spin: Get behind Rep Murtha on peace in Iraq - he only will commit to approve $93 Billion to continue the Iraq/Afghani wars this month. Dem leaders Pelosi and Reid wholeheartedly support that...
View ArticleAct Surprised
Act surprised when the new PATRIOT Act provision - letting the Attorney General replace US attorneys without approval from Congress - is used without Congress. Act surprised when the bipartisan PATRIOT...
View ArticleFinally, a Candidate Vows to Close Guantanamo! (w/poll)
It's often said that the 2008 presidential election will go to the first serious candidate with the guts to boldly oppose unpopular Bush administration policies - on Iraq (cut off funding, bring the...
View Article(After Veto) Are You For or Against an Iraq Supplemental? (w/poll)
This should be a simple one. Bush says that even if it passes the House and Senate, he will veto any Supplemental that requires an exit from Iraq during his term. There has been no discussion of what...
View ArticleGates, McCain, Obama, Hillary and Edwards on Closing Gitmo +poll
Republican Defense Secretary Gates, who serves at the Pleasure of the President: "I came to this job thinking that Guantánamo Bay should be closed. ... no matter how transparent, no matter how open...
View ArticleIraq Choice: Edwards, Reid & Feingold vs Obama & Hillary (poll)
Differences between the 2008 candidates on Iraq just got much starker. As Bush renewed his threat to veto Congress's Iraq Supplement because of its withdrawal provisions, John Edwards responded...
View ArticleFree the US Hostages in Iraq
More than 150,000 US citizens are being held hostage in Iraq, with no plan for their release.An average of two or three dead hostages emerge from the crime scene each day, always in the dead of night....
View ArticleWe Won! Now Take 4 Giant Steps Back Into Iraq? (poll)
The Democrats won what should be their most important victory yet on Iraq last month. The bill that passed says, if the President wants $100B more Iraq funds now, he must at least pretend he'll pull...
View ArticleSenator Reid: A Fast, Safe Way to End the Iraq War
Senator, Your speech today was an important start. Thank you. You have the platform and the power be the agent of the change you're calling for in Iraq. Frankly, your speech also has critical flaws...
View ArticleDem Debate: The Pundits vs The People
The Nation's Bob Moser nailed it: One of the striking things you notice, covering a debate like this, is the vast gulf between what the reporters and pundits see and what the people see. I spent most...
View ArticleReid: Gonzales Is In His Last Throes
Remember way back on March 14th, when Harry Reid got many of us excited with his prediction that Alberto Gonzales would be gone within days? Now, this was long before the deadly emails, Kyle Sampson's...
View ArticleSpecter: Career Criminal May Surrender to Avoid Scolding
The career criminal is Alberto Gonzales - famous torture advocate, death row assassin, federal law enforcement dismantler, and replacement to a previous Attorney General who took the law too...
View ArticleHow the "civil war" frame keeps us in Iraq
In a popular diary today, thereisnospoon again pointed out that Iraq is not a war, it's an occupation, and we're not going to understand the options for ending it until we face the truth.Suppose a gang...
View Article2008 - Only One Way We Can Lose
Progressives practically have the 2008 presidential election sewn up!Most Americans have never been more ready for a change. Most intuitively view the Republicans'strongest candidate this way: Rudy -...
View ArticleIdentical iPols - 3 Choices
Indistinguishable voting records. All always voting to fund the Iraq war. All condemning it whenever they're not in office. All insist it's a "mistake", not a crime. All oppose impeachment. All favor...
View ArticleObama and Hillary quote MLK's speech "Beyond Vietnam"?!
Kidding! Just kidding. Sorry. Good one?Yes, they're both at the MLK memorial. But Obama has said repeatedly he will never drag the divisive battles of the sixties into his generation's America....
View ArticleBasra Unmasks Arrogant Iraq "Training" Lies
For almost 5 years the US has been claiming it's not occupying Iraq - it's "training" Iraqis to fight guerilla war insurgents in Iraq.Bush, Petraeus, and McCain spent this year bragging about "the...
View ArticleIraq Primer for Kids
Hi kids!We all know this whole Iraq thing is kind of scary. It seems complicated, hard to explain, and even harder to predict.Well, we have good news. When you've done this lesson, Iraq will be easy...
View ArticleJohn McCain, Hero (w/poll)
Some of my favorite politicians love to repeat that John McCain is a hero. But in an election that so often turns on candidates' honesty and credibility, somebody please tell me - how is McCain a...
View ArticleFreedom to Marry is Freeing Us All
I was at the 2004 Valentine's Day Marry-In at SF City Hall with my different-sex partner, trying to get a proper marriage license. We would have succeeded, but there were so many gay couples there,...
View ArticleLike Iraq, Afghan/Taliban Had No Role in 9/11 (w/poll)
Since Iraq is finally threatening to eject US troops, while the for the first time since 2003 the US death toll in Afghanistan exceeds Iraq's, it's past time to ask: just why are we in Afghanistan and...
View ArticleAddington, Yoo, and Pelosi Re-Enact The Godfather II
I had to laugh as confident Cheney hatchet man David Addington dropped Nancy Pelosi's name during torture hearings last week. It was right out of the Senate hearings in The Godfather II - where the...
View ArticleBrakes Leaking? Then You Should... (bailout/rescue poll)
You've just discovered your vehicle has a serious, growing leak in its brake system. How will you deal with it? Take the poll and flip to see what it says about your politics.
View Article"anti-American [sic] Cleric [sic] Al-Sadr"
Much like McCain's "Joe the Plumber", the media's "anti-American Cleric Al-Sadr" is none of the above.By now we've all heard that McCain's "Joe the Plumber": isn't a licensed plumberwon't pay more...
View ArticlerAnSoM nOtE from Banks Discovered
Dear USA - President Bush, the Congress, incoming 44th president, Secretary Paulson, and Mr. Geithner:We have taken hostages. We hold the life savings of over 100 million US families, their pension...
View ArticleWhen Should Obama Prosecute Torture? (poll)
Our president is a genius at strategy as well as politics.It may be that this isn't just the right moment to advocate a special prosecutor to hold anyone accountable for torture by the US government....
View ArticleProof Obama Hasn't Forgotten Gay Families
We know plenty of people are upset that Obama's justice department is in court fighting to continue enforcement of the federal Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA) -- which he promised to fight against...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger Gets Personal on Marriage Rights
Today California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to defend Proposition 8 in court, instead joining Attorney General Jerry Brown, who has argued the state's gay marriage ban violates the US...
View Article"Obama's War" on Frontline: Letter from an Afghan Farmer
The following is a letter to Americans from an Afghan farmer who appeared briefly in the new Frontline documentary "Obama's War", which he viewed online.Excerpt: On Frontline, Marine Captain Eric...
View ArticleHoliday Faith and Morality Poll
It's the time of year many of us celebrate our faith. That includes how our beliefs and our houses of worship, along with the New Testament, Torah, and Q''uran, shape our idea of moral justice.How is...
View Article40% of Kossacks Didn't Vote for Obama
I had to chuckle upon seeing, in the results of a poll here with the option: * I want the guy I voted for, not the current Chief Executivethat the plurality of participants -- about 41% -- chose that...
View ArticleFeel Safer? (poll)
Remember a year ago - when after 8 years of dangerous, destructive Bush rule, we were ready for new approaches to national security, health care, the financial system, and climate change? Almost year...
View ArticleObama Moves to Free the Hostages
Over a year after the hostages were first taken and the rAnSoM nOtE was discovered, the president is challenging the terrorists. Dear [Negotiators]:We have taken hostages. We hold the life savings of...
View ArticleAfghani Asks: "Can the Americans Be Trained?" (poll)
This month the world noticed that when our Afghan president Karzai appointed cronies with no credibility for cabinet posts, the Afghan congress pushed back and refused to confirm most of them. That's...
View ArticleSeth MacFarlane Stings on Real Time with Bill Maher
This week's season 8 premiere of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher is the best episode ever! And not slowed down with some dumb conservative pundit to balance the thoughtful, funny guests: Elizabeth...
View ArticleClinton/Netanyahu Call - Transcript Obtained
Last week US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a widely-reported 43 minute "angry" phone call about an "embarrassing" and "insulting" announcement,...
View ArticleWhich Obama Policies Help Our Party Most? (poll)
During election season, the White House and the president's leadership is critical in showing why electing or re-electing members of his party in Congress is good, valuable, important - ideally a...
View ArticlePelosi Equals Change - also Hope
There's nothing that says "I understand how to do better over the next two years" than continuing with the same House and Senate leaders who have been running the show so effectively for the previous...
View ArticleTime, New Republic Decline to View WikiLeaks Site?
As the WikiLeaks diplomatic cable revelations continue this week, news organizations are quietly but hilariously drifting into at least 3 camps: organizations and reporters who read WikiLeaks source...
View ArticleObama Deal Averts "Massive Tax Hike" on Middle Class!
President Obama praised his tax cut bill yesterday saying it saved "middle class families" from "a massive tax hike come January 1st".The full video and transcript are here.Since Obama didn't go into...
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