The Next Attack on Kerry -- NRA and Gun Owners
Business Week has a piece (subsription only) called "Stalking Deer Hunter Dads"; Why Kerry's attempts to woo gun owners are missing the mark so far" by Paul Magnusson.United Auto Workers member John...
View ArticleReligious Voter Outreach Redux
Pastodan had a diary G-ddammit! (DNC's Stupid Religious Voter Outreach) about the Kerry-Edwards campaign's religious voter outreach program. Although I share pastordan's concerns, I have thought about...
View ArticleNC early voting - 1 day turnout
Yesterday was the first day of voting in NC. According to a Google search of various newspapers, the turnout was good. Cabarrus County Total 6125 (7% of registered voters) Rowan County Total 4685...
View ArticleNC: Rovian Sign Strategy
Last week there were a bunch of Bush signs at major intersections on a major street that I travel frequently. Over the weekend, these signs disappeared. Today there are new signs that say: "The Bush...
View ArticleThe dKos Community - Our Heritage Foundation and AEI
I would assert that progressive Democrats need progrressive democratic think tanks. The Center for American Progress does excellent work, but is built as a Washington institution on the same model as...
View ArticleChristian Conservatives--Redux
In the six months that I have been reading the posts on dKos, Views from a former Christian conservative is the most important one for understanding one of the keystone groups in the Religious Right,...
View ArticleWhat Do We Need to Change?
[editor's note, by TarheelDem] Updated title to more accurately reflect the relevance of this diary.There has been a lot of discussion in diaries and comments about tactics and strategies for building...
View ArticleProgressive Principles - 14 Points - Part 1
What is a progressive Democrat, or progressive democrat for that matter? Liberal Oasis has my vote for the most accurate statement of the principle that makes a Democrat a democrat:Belief in the...
View ArticlePost Conservative Realities
The movement of modern conservatives is drawing to a close. Its manipulation of the levers of power show its desperation. When it comes to an end, as it will, we will have to clean up the mess. What...
View ArticleProgressive Principles - 14 Points - Part 2
Update [2004-12-12 13:58:27 by TarheelDem]: Last week I posted this diary as the first step in creating a statement of the intermediate principles that progressive democrats have. When we stand true...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Baptists in the South
There's been a lot of bandwidth spilled on dKos discussing the messed up theology and politicization of churches, Baptist and evangelical, in the South. In honor of Friday, here is some material that...
View ArticleThe Most Marketed Generation
Generations are a market segmenting device. The intent is to seel different things to different age groups. It works only to the extent that there is something distinctive about and age group....
View ArticleOn Going Nuclear
Back in the day, going nuclear meant doomsday, the end of the world, nuclear winter, and all that. But in some religious circles, it meant the fulfillment of John's prophecy in Revelation. In my...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State - 1 - Laws
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989, but did it somewhat badly. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State 2 - Separation of Powers
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that lingers and lingers. After a...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State 3 - Civil Service
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that lingers and lingers. After a...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State 4 - Cabinet Departments
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that lingers and lingers. After a...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State 5 - Freedom USA
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that lingers and lingers. After a...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State 6 - Justice USA
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that lingers and lingers. After a...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State 7 - Public Safety USA
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that lingers and lingers. After a...
View ArticleRebuilding after the Fall of the Bushevist State 8 - Environment USA
The folks in Germany had to do it after World War II. The folks in Russia had to do it after 1989. Some successfully accomplish it. For some, it is a condition that lingers and lingers. After a...
View ArticleWhy Democrats Must Lead on Iraq
(Cross-posted at Booman Tribute and Daily Kos) Robert Scheer at Liberal Oasis says about the increasing calls for impeachment:Two weeks ago, LiberalOasis criticized Dems for failing to developing a...
View ArticleWhat We are Fighting For
I spent this morning at a small-town July 4th parade. The music was provided by a boom box playing marches, which the librarian turned up loud enough to hear as the parade passed by. A parade of...
View ArticleThe Rubber Stamps - The Delay 177
This list below the fold is of the 177 House members who voted with Tom Delay at least 90% of the time. These seats need progressive Democratic candidates. The Democratic voters in these...
View ArticleThere is a map
At the request of Madman in the marketplace, these comments have become a diary. There are 50 states, 3081 counties, and 192,480 precincts that need to have a strong progressive presence before next...
View ArticleBring Me My 2 x 4
One of the other diaries today had a cartoon of a donkey rug debating whether it was the right time to stand up. The cartoon was making fun of the Democratic spokespeople, but it is apt in another...
View ArticleThe Jyllands-Posten Cartoons
Yesterday, I followed a link to slide.com that had posted the purported cartoons from the Jyllands-Posten. I don't know if these are what were actually printed in that newspaper. Along with these were...
View ArticleThis Impeachment Must be Different
Bernstein delivers a professional journalistic take on the situation and shames Woodward's sycophancy. Bernstein has now moved up to where Howard Fineman is. Encouraging, but not yet something to...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines - Carolinas Edition
It's time. Check your voting registration and have your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers who you are counting on to vote Democratic check theirs. Find out where and when early voting is...
View ArticleThe Geography of Victory - 2008
There has been much discussion about regional strategies for 2008. I believe that making allocation decisions on the basis of broad regions and 2004 data is a mistake. It is fighting the last...
View ArticleDefunding the Deciders
President Bush has given Congress a conundrum: how to exert oversight on a President who has publicly declared that he does not have to listen to Congress on matters of national security. Congress...
View ArticleWTF is going on? Mo Meta, Mo Betta
Big Eddie Schultz and Air America are going at it big time. The Kossacks and the "Free Speech Advocates" are still mixing it up. MSOC is still in meta-mode.Meanwhile...
View ArticleThe Past Two Days - Congressional Dems Lose Their Way
I've been following the Congressional Daily Digest to keep up with what this Congress is doing since the Kos Congressional Committees Project has turned out to be a bust. And what I've been seeing has...
View ArticleFive Constitutional Amendments
This is short, so I will put it all here. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of permanent political parties nor prohibiting the free association thereof. No individual or...
View ArticlePre-emptive Fantasizing
We are not long from the days that will set Kossack against Kossack against Kosmopolitan against Kosmic. The primaries.It is helpful to think of who the entire team might be, not just who your choice...
View ArticleIt's About the Delegates
Notice that I did not adopt the cliche form out of the Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. But I was tempted to.The primaries and caucuses are not about winning, they are about getting delegates for the...
View ArticleWhere will the cost savings in healthcare come from?
Over and over, I've commented in healthcare diaries to folks who are incredulous that healthcare reform could pay for itself, currently estimated at between $60 billion a year and $150 billion a year,...
View ArticleWhy I've Decided to Stay in the USA - at least a little while longer
Yes, this is yet another response to Pluto's Leaving the USA. This is My Story..As I commented elsewhere, the diary raises two important questions:Where did the diarist's expectations fcome from except...
View ArticleRacism and the GOP
This diary was a comment in Troutfishing's provocative diary Try Fitting This In Your "the right is racist!" Conceptual Box.Chris Houghton worked for a local conservative radio station. His appearance...
View ArticleWhere is my New Millennium?
In 1996, Bill Clinton and Al Gore ran on the slogan of "Building the Bridge to the 21st Century". Fourteen years later we wonder if we will ever get off that bridge and get into the 21st century. Not...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
John. Yes, you John Boehner. Can we talk? About the spending cuts for which you seem not to have details? Here is a modest proposal that cuts $813.551 billion from the budget in cuts to...
View ArticleNational Security Kos: After American Dominance
Welcome to National Security Kos. The focus of this group is on national security policies in a period of transition from institutions that supported the Cold War to institutions that more closely fit...
View ArticleMy Experience Being Detained Prior to the NATO Summit: UPDATED
orReport from Chicago Spring: Thank You for Returning My Shoelaces and Belt. Now Can You Please Find My Drivers License and Computer?: My Experience Being Detained Prior to the NATO SummitCrossposted...
View ArticleA Citizen's Proposal: Presidential Commission on National Intelligence and...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and others have called for the creation of a commission like the Church Commission to investigate allegations of para-Constitutional but legal use of mass...
View ArticleLeviathan and Goliath - Detroit and Jerusalem
Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan argues that in a state of nature human nature is to be such that life is nasty, brutish, and short and that the corporate state (the Leviathan and Hobbes included the famous...
View ArticleReflections on the Verdict in the NATO 3 Trial
Crossposted at FiredoglakeI've been asked by several people to reflect on the verdict in the NATO 3 trial as best as my circumstances permit. Because my circumstances are not unique to people who have...
View ArticleInfrastructure Is the Current Revolution
Cross-posted at Booman TribuneRegardless of the outcome of the US election, any elections in Europe, Australia, New Zealand--or even India, Pakistan, and China, the Washington consensus and neoliberal...
View ArticleMichigan Already Knows This: The New Dixie Movement is About the Deep Blue...
Denise Oliver-Velez asked me to put this long comment in a diary. Here it is with just a tiny bit of expansion.Let's start with this accurate perception:An interdisciplinary team examines the...
View ArticleBreaking the White Silence
A slaveowner-dominated society is for all its democratic pretensions a totalitarian society that cannot allow contrary notions. For those whites who think they were not involved, the most important...
View ArticleHow a Southern white boy unlearned racism
I am going to give in to Denise Oliver Velez's request to turn a comment into a diary. The aversion to length (TL;DR) is a peculiar modern affliction, but I will make it easier for people who suffer...
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