Daily Kos

"Daily Kos" is a popular liberal/progressive political weblog founded by Markos Moulitsas (Zúniga) on May 26, 2002. According to Moulitsas (kos), "while the Bush administration was calling descent in the face of the preemptive war in Iraq unpatriotic and treasonous, veteran, Moulitsas was offended that the freedoms he pledged his life for were so carelessly being tossed aside by the reckless and destructive Republican administration".  The weblog contains "political analysis and other daily rants on the state of the Nation".

"Daily Kos" is collaborative in that users can register and post in a diary. As of December 2008, however, it is rare for any old diary writer to get featured. "Daily Kos" 2008 features an editor, publisher, Moulitas, and executive editor, several contributing editors and a couple of featured writers. You will find diaries from many people of prominence, from Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi to former president Jimmy Carter.

As of December, 2008, "Daily Kos" consistently ranked in the top 50 of all weblogs as well as in the technorati top 100. Daily Kos calls itself "the premiere political community on the web".

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• Sunday Talk - BROKEN News!!!

  
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  On the heels of several embarrassing " production errors " that have recently occurred, Fox News Channel this week instituted a new zero tolerance policy . And while its probably a little too early to deem this new policy a success, 193% of Republicans surveyed say its working like gangbusters. However, not ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
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  This evenings Rescue Rangers are jlms qkw, dadanation, shayera, sunspark says, dopper0189, and YatPundit, with watercarrier4diogenes at the wheel of the Editmobile The rescued diaries are: Giving life to Heraclitus statement that "No one steps in the same river twice," trail runner erratic explores the ...
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• New Report: A Trigger of a “Strong” Public Option better than the Existing Public Option

  
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  Igor Volsky writes about on a new report from the Urban Institute , which concludes that a trigger of a "strong" public option would work better than the current public option provisions in either bill. Igor: The report says that the Senate and House’s public option provisions (which require the public plan ...
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• NY-23: Eyeing 2010, Hoffman Makes Weak Attempt at Conciliation and Lies in the Process

  
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  While most of us were preparing to spend time with family and friends and gorge ourselves on wondrous foodstuffs and televised sporting events, Doug Hoffman was busy laying the groundwork for a political comeback. In Wednesdays edition of the Polling and Political Wrap , I pointed out that CQ was reporting that ...
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• Late afternoon and early evening open thread

  
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  Whats coming up on Sunday Kos .... Devilstower will demand that all potential Democratic candidates must meet his 10-point test of purity before they can place a holy donkey next to their names. With the recent drama in the New York 23rd, and the news this week about the GOPs new "purity test" for ...
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• BlueCross BlueShield’s Anti-Public Option, HCR Campaign

  
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  BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina is getting some unwelcome attention for a recent mailer and robo-calls they deployed to their customers in the state, urging them to call Sen. Kay Hagan and tell her to oppose the public option. Today, a group of 20 state legislators asked Attorney General Roy Cooper and ...
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• ‘Black Friday’: Best Not to Buy the Hype

  
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  The stories say "Black Friday" is looking good . Not good if you are one of those who participated in the anti-consumerist, pro-environment Buy Nothing Day . But, rather, good in the sense that shoppers are filling their carts, which may help boost a battered economy and eventually lead to millions of out-of-work ...
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• Midday open thread

  
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  Jacob Weisberg on Obamas Brilliant First Year : About one thing, left and right seem to agree these days: Obama hasnt done anything yet. ... This conventional wisdom about Obamas first year isnt just premature—its sure to be flipped on its head by the anniversary of his inauguration on Jan. 20. If, as seems ...
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• Saturday hate mail-apalooza

  
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  Rumsfeld! Below the fold.
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• Saturday hate mail-apalooza

  
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  Rumsfeld! Below the fold.
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• Home Job a Good Gig, If You Can Find One

  
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  I had a boss a decade ago who hated the idea of employees working from home. Hated it. Glared at me every time I suggested we let a few of our team work at home at least a couple of days a week. That team mostly comprised editors and, with an Internet hook-up, they could easily have accomplished their tasks in the ...
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• White House Considers Conrad’s “Entitlement Reform” Commission

  
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  Kent Conrad is trying to sell his Social Security/Medicare cutting commission idea to the White House, and they seem to be listening, to a degree. To briefly recap: Senators from both parties on Tuesday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to turn the power to trim entitlement benefits over to an ...
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• This Week in Science

  
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  One of the funniest emails Ive read in weeks. Its referring to the swift-boat attacks now in play on climate scientists which could soon be the subject of a congressional (Yes, Im cereal ) investigation: Since youre BFF with that liar Michel Mann [sp?], why dont you explain to him theres this thing called ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
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  Twas that Saturday after Thanksgiving and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a Daily Kos editor. But the pundits... ah, the pundits... Ellen Goodman :   Is there such a thing as communications malpractice? If so, we might consider the case of Women v. the U.S. Preventive Services ...
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• Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Gearing Up for Copenhagen

  
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  Stacy Feldman at SolveClimate writes: Climate Activism Soars Planetwide Ahead of Copenhagen Climate Talks Millions of people worldwide are pressing their governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions ahead of next months Copenhagen climate talks, and the volume of protests has increased as world leaders ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
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  This evenings Rescue Rangers are watercarrier4diogenes, blank frank, HoosierDeb, mem from somerville, YatPundit and shayera with shayera editing. First-time diarist Liberal Lass has a touching story of how Daily Kos saved her Thanksgiving Day in With Thanks to Kos and KINship . Your Rescue Ranger has something ...
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• Black Friday

  
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  Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, most of the news seems to be devoted to "Black Friday," the official start of the holiday* shopping season. Personally, Id rank getting up at the crack of dawn to fight over sales items right up there with getting up at the crack of dawn to sit in a deer stand waiting for a ...
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• Hysterical Republican Whoppers And Talking Points

  
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  Over at TPM , Brian Beutler has come up with his top five "hysterical Republican whoppers and talking points." Agree, disagree, or do you have your own top five (or ten, or twenty, or ...)? Number Five: Paul Ryan Draws Line On Graph Back in the Spring, when Democrats were putting together the federal ...
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• A reminder about who Glenn Beck really is

  
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  From my inbox Friday morning: Its sort of amusing: despite all his crazy bluster, Glenn Beck, at the heart of it all, is just a carnival salesman, and his product is his own hot air. He may be one of the most powerful voices in the Republican Party, but hes still just a Morning Zoo radio show host who found ...
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• Native American Heritage Day: No No Keshagesh

  
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  The Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has often complained that too many people saw her as Pocahontas with a guitar. Shes anything but. Her career, which began in the early 1960s at beatnik coffeehouses in Canada and the United States, has been marked by political controversy, drug addiction and numerous ...
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