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I am really proud of the Daily Kos community, and the quality of news writing and opinion editorials here.The following writers are nominated to win the Daily Kos NYT Free Press prize: one year's...
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I am really proud of the Daily Kos community, and the quality of news writing and opinion editorials here.The following writers are up for winning the Daily Kos NYT Free Press prize: one year's...
View ArticleIf these allegations prove true -- Congressman warns Bush about illegality NSA
In a letter acquired by the New York Times, Rep. Pete Hoekstra warned Bush on May 18, that the warrantless domestic program was not legal, due to lack of oversight.I have learned of some alleged...
View ArticleGonzales Rendered Quaint and Obsolete
On January 25, 2002, Alberto Gonzales advised Bush that "the war on terrorism is a new kind of war, a new paradigm [that] renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitation on questioning of enemy prisoners...
View ArticleSilence of the Rabid Lambs
Recently I struggled with a long post (2548 words in story.... holy shit!!) "Gonzales Rendered Quaint and Obsolete" It was front-paged at ePluribus Media, and that was gratifying.... but I've found the...
View ArticleWhere John Lennon Meets Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter is a sociopath who is a syndicated columnist with Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns are carried in 100 newspapers nationwide. Universal Press Syndicate is a division of Andrews...
View ArticleSmelling a Clinton Rat: Media Control Democratic Process
Jonathan Tasini, the longshot Democratic, anti-war challenger to U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, on August 2 accused NY1 (cable news television New York) of playing a role in "legalized election corruption"...
View ArticleClinton Cannot Afford Debate in New York
Clinton Campaign Shuns Debate: We must never be silent, it's true. But what if you can't buy a seat on a Town Hall forum? Democrat challenger Jonathan Tasini is being shut out of the Town Hall...
View ArticleAOL "screw up" releases data 650k users, searches and hits
This week AOL released "for research purposes only" data on 650,000 users searches and hits collected from US users between March and May of this year.. AOL says they have removed the data from the...
View ArticleFixing An Election in Plain Sight
The Hypocrisy of NY1 Cable News: From an editorial yesterday in NY1 news, "a division of" Time Warner, who contributed $101,000 to Sen. Clinton's campaign this year:"Clinton has been attacked by some...
View ArticleTits and Terrorism
U.S. Homeland Security officials immediately issued a ban on soaps, soft drinks, toothpaste and all other liquids and gels except baby formula and prescription medicine. There goes that "chicken...
View ArticleBush Goes Existential
It is being reported today that Bush has had to put down his summer reading, Albert Camus'"The Stranger" and a biography of Lincoln, to concentrate on the top three crises at hand: Lebanon, UK...
View ArticleYou SAY You're Anti-War. You SAY You're for Impeachment. But.....
You SAY you're anti-war. You SAY you want the troops home now. You SAY you're for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. You SAY dissent is patriotic. But..... Given a choice in the...
View ArticleMike Malloy Petition Gains 230 Sigs per Hour
Yesterday it was announced that Mike Malloy was fired from Air America Radio "for financial reasons." The news was announced on Democratic Underground by at 11 oclock yesterday morning by Kathy Bay...
View ArticleClinton Legal Team Sends SECOND LETTER to ABC
Despite changes being made to "Path to 9/11" the Clinton legal team sent this second letter to ABC President and CEO Robert Iger on Friday, this one demanding that ABC Pull ItDear Bob, Despite press...
View ArticleColin Powell Makes Good
Colin Powell Against Bush Anti-Terrorism Bill Colin Powell opposes Bush's plan to revise reword and rework the Geneva Conventions, especially Article 3 Provisions against torture. Powell has expressed...
View ArticleA Fulcrum, A Place to Stand, and a Loving Granny
"Give me a fulcrum and a place to stand, and I will move the whole world." Archimedes; born 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily Earlier today Granny Doc posted a letter, "I'm Sorry World" that stayed on the...
View ArticleBush Costs the US Billions in Lost Revenue
Keith Reinhard is a Madison Avenue advertising executive of some renown. The former president of DDB Worldwide, he has founded an organization to try and contain the anti-Americanism that has taken...
View ArticleTitan's Investment in Torture Compromise
The list of what's wrong with the Compromise Bill to Military Commissions Act of 2006 sponsored by Duncan Hunter R-CA is growing longer by the day. Who are the corporate sponsors of this bill?...
View ArticleDon't Get Your Knickers in a Twist
Iraq War Was Lost by 2004 While Democrats demand access to the latest (April) classified National Intelligence Estimate, and Bush denies its conclusion, that the war on Iraq has created more...
View ArticleA Tragic Mistake and a Farce
Sen. Patrick Leahy just said in the Senate, "I think to rush through this legislation so we can go out and campaign is a tragic mistake. It's a tragic mistake and a farce. A farce." Now there is a...
View ArticleSOLD to the US -- Victims of Permanent Detention & Torture -- Amnesty
Worse Than Slave Trade -- Pakistan Sells Human Beings to US -- for Permanent Detention & Torture The USA began in early 2002 to distribute flyers offering substantial amounts of money for the...
View Article3,000 CIA Torture Flight Logs to be Published Next Week
The CIA pressured Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights program, reports today's Guardian (UK) The CIA offered...
View Article"Timetable is US election ploy" Maliki
Prime Minister al Maliki of Iraq is quoted today by the BBC as saying "I am not America's man in Iraq." He said he rejects the US timetable as not official US policy, but a ploy to influence the...
View ArticleKidnapped Soldier NOT in Sadr City
Military spokesman Major General William Caldwell said today that the military operations to find kidnapped US soldier Ahmed Qusai al-Taei were still underway in Baghdad, focused on the area east of...
View ArticleExecution Pending for US Citizen in Iraq
On Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Bush signed into Law the Military Commissions Act of 2006.The commissions are authorized to sentence defendants to death, and defendants are prevented from invoking the...
View ArticleVote NOW on Democratic Priorities [Poll]
I see a diary has come and gone. Bob Fertik over at Democrats.com has assembled a mighty list of priorities for Democrats in the first 100 days. Please go to Democrats.com and vote for your top 20...
View ArticleUS Authorities Attempted to Bribe Torture Victim
The ACLU on December 6, 2006 re-submitted its case on behalf of Khaled al-Masri v. George Tenet. al-Masri was picked up in Macedonia on or about December 31, 2003, taken to Afghanistan and tortured...
View ArticleIraqi Army Cannot Be Trained To Do This
"A primary mission of U.S. military strategy in Iraq is the training of competent Iraqi security forces.""By the end of 2006, the Multi-National Security Transition Command–Iraq under American...
View ArticleBreaking: Raw and Unverified
Breaking Raw and UnverifiedLast night there were a flurry of diaries about the condition of Sen. Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota. The first was Kos’ from an email by a Johnson staffer stating...
View ArticleHanding Jesus His Balls Back
Giotto, Cleansing of the Temple; 1300Remember the story of that man who, on seeing the money-lenders’ tables in the temple, went enraged? He overturned the tables and made some whips and drove them...
View ArticleCase Closed; Greater Case Opened
The House Ethics Committee, in one of its last acts in a Republican controlled Congress, has dismissed the case against Congressman John Conyers after a three years investigation into the charge that...
View ArticleThe Basement Hearings
Some of you will remember June 16, 2005 when Congressman Conyers covened a hearing on the Downing Street Minutes, which led to the issuing of the report "The Constitution in Crisis"After its final...
View ArticleWhat Is Fair Use?
According to US Copyright Office: Fair Use:"Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered "fair," such as criticism, comment,...
View ArticleA Brief History of Protest Against KSFO
This is a timeline of protests against KSFO Hate Speech Radio from 1995 to the present.Sorry for the sloppy formatting.I have been going through the San Francisco Chronicle archives, and I'm not even...
View ArticleJazzbeau Collins & Herb Caen Rise From Their Graves
In the mid seventies I lived in San Francisco, where one of the many splendors was the thriving jazz scene. It was a joy to tune into KSFO and listen to Jazzbeau Collins, coming from The Purple...
View ArticleThe People vs KSFO
I was too busy listening to Jazzbeau Collins (vintage KSFO of the 70's) today to tune into KSFO Hate Speech Radio. But I did take the time to sign the Media Matters Petition against Hate Speech, HATE...
View ArticleCalifornia Radio Station Held Liable in Negligence Case (w/ SPOCKO Update)
Most of you are now familiar with KSFO Hate Speech Radio, and the efforts of Spocko and Mike Stark to protest against the station. A brief history of protest against the station can be found here.An...
View ArticleKSFO... New York Times Has a Dog in this Fight
Today's New York Times gives some good coverage to the Spocko vs KSFO Hate Speech Radio issue.Also, coincidentally, today's NYT reports on the US military & intelligence expanding its scope in...
View ArticleCA Woman Dies... Radio Station to Blame
This case is tragic:Radio station fires 10 in wake of contestant's deathBy Christina Jewett - Sacramento Bee Staff Writer Published 1:42 pm PST Tuesday, January 16, 2007Ten employees of The End (KDND,...
View ArticleDon't Mess With the Mouse
I have had a stinkin feeling for quite a long time about Melanie Morgan talkshow host of KSFO Hate Speech Radio. She’s made quite a few statements in the last week or so that just can’t be backed...
View ArticleCalling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard !!
Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard !!No, it’s not these Three Stooges I need... what I really need is all those 1,065 blogerros who recommended Mike Stark’s January 3rd diaryYou see, today is the...
View ArticleThis Image is Copyrighted ©
This Image is Copyrighted © This image is copyrighted, to me. It’s called "Ancient Glass"© although the only glass is the bottle in the center. These jugs and vases and bottle were dug up in an...
View ArticleThis image is copyrighted ©
This Image is Copyrighted © This image is copyrighted, to me. It's called "Her Welcome to Him"© It started out in Indian Red, Raw Umber, and Hooker's Green. This is the third version of the...
View ArticleMolly Ivins Tribute Project at Berkeley Daily Planet
As you know from this diary the beloved columnist Molly Ivins is critically ill. In Molly Ivins' second to last column she declared herself on a campaign:an "old-fashioned newspaper campaign" and vowed...
View ArticleThree Thousand Wasted Lives
Sen. Barack Obama was quoted on Saturday: "We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."On Sunday he apologized, and again today."Even as I said...
View ArticleMadam Speaker, I Move to Strike from the Record
Just in time for President's Day, Congressman Don Young of Alaska expressed his wish during the House debate that Democrats who oppose the Bush administration's troop surge in Iraq are saboteurs and...
View ArticleWhat I Did NOT Find at Whitehouse.gov
On the 25th of February there was a spectacular diary here called "The White House website is getting scrubbed." (original) (diary with four updates) It starts with the claim that a 2003 interview...
View ArticleWhat I Did NOT Find at Whitehouse dot gov
First of all, what I did find. The White House has a mirrored site to whitehouse.gov and it is run by FEMA. While whitehouse.gov has been completely redesigned in the last year, this mirrored site...
View ArticleJoe & Valerie Wilson on Libby Verdict... GBDK
Here is the statement of Joe & Valerie Wilson on today's Libby verdict:March 6, 2007Washington, DC – First, Valerie and Joseph Wilson would like to express their appreciation to Special Counsel...
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