Peer-reviewed research shows Wal-Mart increases poverty

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 1:03 PM PDT

2006/05/18 · 13:03

We've all known that Wal-Mart increases poverty rates for quite a while. However, so far that information has either been based on common sense or anecdote. But now it seems that scientifically valid, peer-reviewed research has been published that lends a ton of weight to that idea. Read More

Senator Clinton and Work

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Monday May 15, 2006 · 9:11 AM PDT

2006/05/15 · 09:11

Once in a while I succumb to temptation and write a diary detailing the colossal mess the Baby Boomers have been making of the country. When that happens I'm invariably slammed by various commentators, who take pains to point out that we shouldn't be looking at our country's problems from a generational perspective, because that hurts our ability to be really analytical and unbiased. So I trust these commentators are simply outraged at Senator Clinton's recent comments regarding the work ethic of our generation. Read More

Military Contractors to Operate Openly in Louisiana

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Tuesday March 14, 2006 · 11:12 AM PST

2006/03/14 · 11:12

There have been rumors and reports of Blackwater mercenaries operating in New Orleans for some time now, but I'm disturbed the openness of this MSNBC article, which suggests that even local communities are starting to hire these trained military killers. Read More

Sugarcandy Mountain

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 9:19 AM PST

2006/01/31 · 09:19

Raise your hand if this seems familiar:

"In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years. He was quite unchanged, still did no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy Mountain. He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen. `Up there, comrades,' he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak -- `up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see -- there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!' He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Many of the animals believed him. Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?"

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Tuesday November 29, 2005 · 4:18 PM PST

2005/11/29 · 16:18

Here we go again. "DLC Dem-Lite" vs. "Berkeley wackjob fanatic". "Moderates" vs. "Progressives" vs. "liberals". Brother vs. brother. Everyone seems to suddenly have a passionate stake in this "battle" over how to get out of Iraq, and everyone seems willing to fight it with the same intensity as any pitched Howard Dean battle. But there's something weird about this fight. Sure, all the vitriol and anger is flying, but are our various Evil Villains and Unimpeachable Champions really as divided as some on this site seem to think? Read More

Why are we advertising conservative propaganda?

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Monday November 28, 2005 · 5:18 PM PST

2005/11/28 · 17:18

Stop me if you've heard this one. An Arab, an Eastern European immigrant, a Frenchman, and a liberal elitist from Berkeley plot to destroy America...

Sounds like Fox News channelling Tom Clancy, right? So why is Daily Kos advertising it? Read More

Dogmatic Atheism

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Wednesday November 16, 2005 · 3:23 PM PST

2005/11/16 · 15:23

Ok, enough. I've been reading these atheism diaries with a great deal of interest, but I'm getting increasingly annoyed here.

I love talking about different ways of understanding the world. I was a biology major in college and completely devoured the whole E.O. Wilson "it's all evolution" school of evolutionary psychology, but I've probably spent as much time on Beliefnet as Daily Kos. Part of the reason I'm a Democrat is because this is the only party that has evidenced any real commitment to maintaining religious pluralism in this country. So I usually love this type of discussion. But the tone and content of the latest atheist diaries is really starting to disturb me. Read More

Why is religious intolerance acceptable on DailyKos?

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Sunday November 06, 2005 · 5:52 PM PST

2005/11/06 · 17:52

Imagine stumbling across a diary that said this:

Judaism to me has always seemed a dangerous religion. For all of its benefits and peaceful sides it is now greatly outweighed by avarice and greed.

Anywhere I see a majority of Catholics I see gross oppression of indiviudal rights and governmental roles. They remind me of why democracy will never work in the Congo, Venezuela or anywhere else with Catholic majorities.

If black Baptists ever gain too much power in voting, the United States could very well fall to extremism.

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Monday October 17, 2005 · 2:05 PM PDT

2005/10/17 · 14:05

The weeping and moaning that followed Kos' "Gore won't run" posting was truly epic. And I normally hate adding to that kind of 'OMG LETS ALL POST DIARIES ON THE SAME TOPIC' rush. It was terribly depressing too, since Gore's statement seemed to be a largely unqualified "never again".

But as TAPPED points out by way of TNR (which is an interesting sign of ideological unity in and of itself), Gore has a whole lot of options that give him an almost "perfect storm" opportunity in 2008. Read More

Why THIS crony?

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 12:48 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 12:48

Yes, the President appointed a total crony to the Supreme Court. Yes, he's known to value near-fanatical loyalty above all else. Yes, he may be dumb when it comes to other things, but he knows how Washington works and he knows that no paper trail usually = no ammo for the opposition.

But none of that really answers why he'd pick someone as obviously flawed as Harriet Miers. Let's explore this for a moment. Read More

Small Government Liberalism

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Friday September 23, 2005 · 8:37 PM PDT

2005/09/23 · 20:37

I know, I know it sounds like an oxymoron. But since the 1980s, Democrats have been struggling with the Republican frame of "Big Government Liberalism". To say they've been ineffective would be an understatement. Dem responses have ranged from sepia-toned New Deal references to wildly varying posturing. However, besides DLC-style selling out, there has never been a really good attempt to understand the possible reasons that liberals might want to take another look at some traditionally "conservative" ideas. I know this is heresy, but I trust the group here so I'd like to put forth something like that. Read More

WTF is up with Melissa Bean (IL-8th)?

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Wednesday September 21, 2005 · 11:15 AM PDT

2005/09/21 · 11:15

Steve Soto had a post last night that discussed the efforts to repeal Bush's suspension of the minimum wage in the Gulf Coast. He particularly focused on a group of turncoat Democrats, who were defined by:

No Co-Sponsor Gulf Coast Wage Cut Repeal
Voted for Bakruptcy Bill
Voted for Estate Tax Repeal

And the eleven members are:

Bean, Melissa L., Illinois, 8th
Bishop Jr., Sanford D., Georgia, 2nd
Boren, Dan, Oklahoma, 2nd
Boucher, Rick, Virginia, 9th
Cramer, Robert E., Alabama, 5th
Cuellar, Henry, Texas, 28th
Davis, Lincoln, Tennessee, 4th
Edwards, Chet, Texas, 17th
Gordon, Bart, Tennessee, 6th
McIntyre, Mike, North Carolina, 7th
Salazar, John T., Colorado, 3rd, brother of Ken, US Senator. Read More

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Peer-reviewed research shows Wal-Mart increases poverty

Senator Clinton and Work

Military Contractors to Operate Openly in Louisiana

Sugarcandy Mountain

Did I miss a policy debate or something?

Why are we advertising conservative propaganda?

Dogmatic Atheism

Why is religious intolerance acceptable on DailyKos?

Gore would be an idiot not to run

Why THIS crony?

Small Government Liberalism

WTF is up with Melissa Bean (IL-8th)?