More Nails in TNR's coffin
TNR's Kaplan plans to vote for Bush over Dean or other similarly "weak" candidates.Further supporting the idea that TNR plans to endorse Bush in the primary, Lawrence Kaplan makes the following...
View ArticleMore EU Sanctions
The EU has requested that the WTO allow it to empose sanctions on the US in retaliation for the Byrd Amendment. The US plans to fight the EU's request.In another shocking (but predictable) display of...
View ArticleDean for the DNC
Here's a thought, why not have Dean for DNC Chairman.Ok, I know this isn't actually a serious suggestion, and I probably mean someone like Dean rather than Dean himself. But I've been reading the...
View ArticleSaletan's echo chamber
This is my rebuttal/rant at this Saletan column about Dean. I normally like Saletan, but some of his recent whinges have really rubbed me the wrong way (his need for pedanticly literal meaning in...
View ArticledKos Glossary
We move pretty quickly here at Daily Kos, and a lot of the conversation assumes a certain level of fairly specialized knowledge. Part of that is a whole host of terms, acronyms and in-jokes, most of...
View ArticleThoughts from a Columbia Candidate Panel
I've just come back from a panel discussion given by representatives of the various candidates at Columbia University (and sponsered by the College Democrats). As I often think that the behavior of...
View ArticleThoughts from an Edwards "Policy Address"
I've just come back from what was ambiguously billed as a Policy Address by John Edwards, and which was revealed, halfway through his speech, to be on trade and jobs specifically. But as is often the...
View ArticledKos Glossary: The Kossary v.1
This is a continuation of the dKos Glossary Project. The terms, in jokes, and acronyms flash by fast and furious here at dKos, and this set of diary entries has, frankly, grown out of my own inability...
View ArticleLib Dems get Lucky as Tories withdraw from inquiry
The Conservative leader Michael Howard has followed the Lib Dems and withdrawn his party's support for the Butler inquiry into Britain's WMD intelligence that lead to the Iraq war.Howard withdrew...
View ArticleStop saying Death Tax!
Framing the debate is important, there's a reason why the words "Estate Tax" haven't passed the lips of any Republican in years. And there's a reason why the words "Death Tax" should never be uttered...
View ArticleCricket, International Sport, and World Peace
Very early tomorrow morning, East Coast time, the final match of the five match series between India and Pakistan will be held. I only know because most of my Indian colleagues will be up bright and...
View ArticleUnshackling The DNC
For three years the Democrats have wandered the political wilderness because they have lacked a unifying voice to lead the party. The party, so dependent on the presence of a single leader to give...
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