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The Ted Kennedy Health Care for All Act:  Thursday Health Care Series

Those of us who care about health care reform in America have different goals.  Barack Obama wants to make health insurance more affordable and available.  Johm McCain wants to, uh, cut taxes or...

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Thank You, John Edwards

I've just spent some time reading the various reactions to John Edwards' disappointing admission of his extramarital affair and his lying about it.  I can sympathize with those who remember and honor...

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Faith Forum Liveblog VI

Jumping in here because so many comments have appeared on V.McCain spent ten minutes on his Hanoi Hilton days, which he's so reluctant to mention normally.Mothership by PLS. Live Blog II by MTmofo....

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"I've been to the mountaintop"

I sit here with tears in my eyes, just having watched Teddy Kennedy, the old liberal lion, give a loud and rousing roar.  His speech was beautifully set up by the filmed appreciation of his family and...

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Just Lost My Virginity: Obama Donation Match

So far this year I've donated over $3000 to various candidates across the country, but not a dime to Barack Obama.  I figured he had plenty of money and I saw a lot of other needy candidates who needed...

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Nation of Service Liveblog III:  Obama!

audiored's liveblog thread is the mothership.  Please recommend that diary if you're inclined.Scubaval has Liveblog II.UPDATE:RoCali has posted Liveblog IV.  Please decamp to that diary for the dial-up...

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McCain Fell into Obama's Trap Tonight (with Poll!): Update -- Obama Won CBS Poll

Watching the debate tonight, I was shaking my head wondering why the last chance people have to hear from the presidential candidates was consumed by Ayers and ACORN and nasty attack ads against John...

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Please Rescue: GOTV for Equal Rights in CA

Early this morning pico wrote an important diary pleading for help with the No on Prop. 8 campaign in CA.  It is full of useful links and the latest information on polling in this tight race, where all...

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Lieberman: Don't Get Mad, Get Effective

Yeah, yeah, I'm late to the party on the Holy Joe issue today.  But listening to Harry Reid's pathetic excuse for a justification, and Lieberman's utter refusal to show any contrition -- or even...

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What Is It to Be a Citizen? (Updated)

I can't expect to live in a democracy if I'm not prepared to do the work of being a citizen. This was my  signature line for much of last year.  Some of you admired it, for which I give you thanks....

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Frank Rich Blows the Smoke Away from Washington

Frank Rich is perhaps our best national opinion columnist.  His background in theater criticism gives him an unique and invaluable background for observing the goings-on in national politics.  In the...

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Obama's Katrina Moment: An Invitation to Radicalism (Updated)

Frank Rich's column this week, Has a ‘Katrina Moment’ Arrived?, is only a little hyperbolic in its thesis.  In Rich's column, Tim Geithner and Laurence Summers play respectively the roles of Michael...

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Iran: The End Game Approaches?

Tonight the invaluable Nico Pitney at HuffPo cites a very interesting analysis of Iranian clerical politics published at EurasiaNet, a project of the Open Society Institute which is sponsored by George...

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One Year Ago:  The Lion's Last Roar

A year and a day ago, Ted Kennedy gave a speech in Denver which stirred the soul of every listener, which summed up the courage and the humanity with which he had conducted his life and career.  On...

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MacArthur at Incheon:  How to Win Health Care Reform

On June 25, 1950, the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea invaded South Korea, setting off the Korean War.  The South Koreans were quickly routed, and despite an initial influx of US soldiers and...

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Senate Democrats Listen to Dallasdoc.  Finally!

As a few of you may recall, on September 19th I wrote a diary suggesting some alternative tactics to take the pressure off the public option and distract its opponents by making them fight on new...

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One Every Twelve Minutes

Five weeks ago a Harvard Medical School study revealed the estimate that 44,789 Americans die every year because of lack of health insurance.  Forty-four thousand, seven hundred eighty-nine. That's...

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Consider Supporting a Kossack for Congress

Marcy Winograd is an outstanding progressive running in CA-36 to replace Jane Harman, Blue Dog and tool of the Bush administration in the worst years of the War on Terra.  She gave Harman a great run...

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Please Support a Great Progressive Candidate

Marcy Winograd is a terrific progressive Democrat who is taking on Blue Dog Jane Harman in the primary for CA-36 next year.  She is also a legitimate Kossack, who has spent a lot of time here...

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Unanswered Questions

Barack Obama has presented a well-reasoned, closely argued case for his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan.  He delivered the message that Afghanistan would be left to Afghans, that the US...

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Helping the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake (Morning updates)

PLEASE RECOMMEND TO KEEP LINKS ON REC LIST.Just a few hours ago pantherq brought this community the frightening news of a Richter 7.0 earthquake just outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  Two hours ago a...

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Keeping the Flame for Haiti Aid: An Broadened Appeal for Help

I am overwhelmed by the response my diary Helping the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake from yesterday received, both within this community and outside it.  The support and the ideas that diary generated...

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Can We Stop Bickering While People Are Dying? (Updates)

I've been astounded by the incredible generosity of this community in the wake of the unspeakable disaster in Haiti.  The prayers and expressions of support, the many offers to coordinate giving, and...

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Helping the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake: New Approaches

In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, this community has stepped up with unbelievable generosity, love and compassion.  The expressions of concern, the sharing of vital information, and...

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Helping the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake:  Four Star Organizations

There are so many organizations asking for money to aid Haitians in their time of extreme distress.  So many worthy causes, so many tear-inducing appeals.  If you, like me, can't donate to them all,...

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Helping the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake: Partners in Health and Portlight...

This is the 32nd diary on the earthquake disaster in Haiti.  The first diary was by Dallasdoc, previous diaries linked below.  The idea is to keep resources visible and easily available for those...

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Helping Haiti's Earthquake Survivors: Quadruple Your Donation Dollar!

Partners in Health is one of the premier aid organizations delivering health care in Haiti.  The organization has been in the country for over 20 years, and after the earthquake last month it is...

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Helping Haiti's Earthquake Survivors: Quadruple Your Donation Dollar!

Partners in Health is one of the premier aid organizations delivering health care in Haiti.  The organization has been in the country for over 20 years, and after the earthquake last month it is...

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Rachel Maddow Tweet-Slaps Orrin Hatch

Last night Jahiz spotlighted Rachel Maddow's inspired takedown of Orrin Hatch's mendacious Washington Post health care OpEd in the recommended diary Maddow Battens Down the Hatch. The diary was...

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A Doctor's Voice on Health Care Reform

No,not mine.  You've read my views plenty since this debate began.  But an eloquent and insightful diary by DocWilliams gives a realistic view of how today's health care system affects practitioners...

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Christiane Amanpour to Host ABC's This Week

TV Newser reports today that CNN's Christiane Amanpour has accepted the permanent host job for their ABC's Sunday morning news show, This Week.  She will take up the position in August, with the...

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Stewart Udall Is Dead at 90

Sad news from Santa Fe today. Stewart Udall, former Interior Secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and father of Kossack Sen. Tom Udall, has passed away peacefully this morning at his home at...

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Do the Right Thing:  Rachel Maddow Challenges the President (Update with...

Our tribune of the people, Rachel Maddow, has just led off her show with coverage of the DADT vote in the Senate.  This is hardly surprising, but her take on it is as usual masterful.She leads with a...

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Test Your Religious Knowledge

As many of you may have heard, the Pew Research Center has just released a poll testing Americans' knowledge of basic religious questions.  The questions they ask are not fine points of eschatological...

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Restoration:  How to Fight Back and Win

I've been rolling thoughts over in my head since the election results came in, wondering what can be done to rescue the Democratic party and the country from this relentlessly tightening corporate...

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The End of Obama's Presidency, According to Him (Updated)

Tonight Keith Olbermann leads his show with this report: ...The White House says the Congressman couldn't know firsthand, because the President hasn't spoken to him about this, nor said this to him...

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A Matter That Needs Your Attention: Please Unrecommend

pfiore8 has written a heart-rending diary called 400 cold dogs... about a shelter for abandoned dogs in Romania, asking for our help.  Please go and read this sad story, and consider whether you can...

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A Call for Donuts (Updated, with thanks)

Yesterday a widely read diary by Dreaming of Better Days shared an exchange she had with a fellow Kossack, who didn't understand a reference she made to being "done" in reference to the Debt Ceiling...

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Please Help

In this cheerful Christmas season, there are many who have a hard time finding cheer.  Many needy and homeless and lonely souls, searching for help and warmth and companionship.  Those who reach out...

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Please Lend Your Eyes

Kossack Melody Townsel is someone most of us of, uh, fine vintage remember from the bad old Bush days.  She gained fame for revealing what an abusive prick John Bolton is when he was nominated as...

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Scarborough Agonistes: Conservative Extremism Shocks Conservative

So this morning I woke to Morning Joe, having fallen asleep watching Rachel's late rerun.  They teased an interview with Tim Huelskamp, the wingnut who Boehner recently purged from a powerful committee...

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Rachel Maddow on David Miranda and the White House

Tonight Rachel Maddow led her show with the story of David Miranda's detention at Heathrow yesterday, and gave a wonderful introduction to Laura Poitras.  She starts with Poitras, her documentary work...

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Sen. Heinrich on Syria, and a Response

This afternoon a communication from my junior senator, Martin Heinrich (D-NM), landed in my email.  Heinrich is not a publicity hog, and you usually have to go searching to find out what he thinks...

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No Scapegoats. Time to Face Facts.

It doesn't matter how great your marketing campaign is.  You can't sell your dog food if the dogs won't eat it. ---Old Madison Avenue proverb So here we are once more.  Another electoral drubbing at...

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There, but for the Grace.... An Appeal for Help, with a Match (UPDATED)

Holiday season is upon us, and, as seems always to be the case, beloved friends are in trouble.  Our own TiaRachel has fallen on hard times:  her electric service has been cut off, she has no reliable...

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Read. Rec. Bookmark.

NBBooks has just posted an important diary outlining one of the most exciting projects I've seen here or anywhere else in a long time.HAWB -- Introduction -- How America Was BuiltThis ambitious project...

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Bernie Sanders for Our President: Contribution Match (with new morning match!)

The day has finally arrived!  Bernie Sanders has announced that he's running for president, to save the country and the Democratic party.  He's a brave man with a big heart, a sharp mind and...

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Enough.

Dartagnan has written an important diary currently sliding down the Rec List featuring a post by Simon Head in the New York Review of Books blog section, entitled “The Clinton System.”  In this post,...

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The Wound Has Been Reopened

As the world knows by now, Hillary Clinton lit her credibility on fire yesterday in an interview with Mrs. Alan Greenspan: “It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people...

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Hey Democrats! Do you ever want to win again? (Updated)

Update:  So I’m out of the penalty box, and wanted to put in one last word.  Thanks to all of you who read and responded to what I wrote.  To those who clearly didn’t read or didn’t consider my points,...

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