A Perspective on 9/11
On September 11, 2001, about 3000 people, mostly Americans, died on US soil from hostile action. According to many, this was an incomparable catastrophe that "changed the world". On September 17,...
View ArticleI DO NOT SUPPORT THE TROOPS
Come a sultry summer eve and my good friend Mr. Daniel and I retired to the porch to consider the great questions of our mutual lives. After much chewing of the cud of self-analysis I have come to the...
View ArticleWill Bush Pardon Miller?
A little idle speculation: Bush and his fellow thugs in 2002 were busy spinning multiple lies to justify invading Iraq (obviously, to me, for the benefit of Big Oil). Wilson's report, obviously to...
View ArticleYou Have Awakened America
You put her to sleep, this America, a generation or more ago, you drugged her with the opiate of superificiality, soothed her with your words of tax cuts, stroked her forehead with the warm oils of...
View ArticleAsking for Info re Volunteering
Yesterday someone posted - I can't recall if a diary or comment - information re a group of volunteers in PA, through the Red Cross, getting together a caravan of volunteers to the Gulf Coast on 9/12...
View ArticleDoes House Subpoena Power Mean Anything Without the Senate?
Ill fortune and Diebold notwithstanding, and Kos' defensive pessimism aside, it appears that come next January the Democrats will have a majority, however slim, in the House of Representatives. This...
View ArticleDecember Surprise?
This topic has been touched on in another diary or comment, which my limited search skills can't find, but I thought it needed a bit of fleshing out, thus this diary. While we are misdirected to the...
View ArticleOn Unfair Troll Ratings
I'm sorry if this is distracting from political discussion, but I feel the need to add yet one more "meta" diary to the discussion. Earlier today a commenter to a diary (http://www.dailykos.com/...)...
View ArticleVoluntarily or Not, Bush Will Leave
This diary posits that Bush will not "voluntarily" leave the Presidency, that he will either (1) refuse to stop down on inaguration day or (2) cancel or postpone (presumably indefinitely) the '08...
View ArticleA Plan to Reverse Bushism
Bush sneers defiantly at Congress, daring it to challenge him in the Courts, confident that his appointed lackeys will back him up. Congress appears afraid to move lest adverse rulings of the Supreme...
View ArticleI Fear Huckabee
I fear Huckabee. Of all of the GOP candidates I see him as the one most likely to defeat a Democrat in '08. Not just because, as Kos points out, his base can get out the vote. But mostly because of...
View ArticleMy Vote for Obama
I have been voting for nearly 40 years, but the vote I cast today might well be the one I feel best about. Being an aging "boomer" I often grumble about the rapid change of technology, but this...
View ArticleA Cry for Tajikistan
This time the beggar was an old man. The young women with their babies stayed home this morning. It is far too cold to venture out for even those whose only means of eating is provided by the...
View ArticleCommander-in-Chief?
Over and over again in the Primaries, and no doubt ad nauseam during the general election, we hear candidates spar over which of them would make the better "Commander-in-Chief". We are asked to choose...
View ArticleJuly 4, 1984
Allow me to share an Independence Day memory appropriate for Veterans' Day.
View ArticleOn One Nation Crowd Estimates
Recently several diaries and comments concerning the size of the crowd at the One Nation 10.2.10 rally have used the estimate of 175,000 in its official march press release. As of today, One Nation...
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