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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• MA-Sen: Globe Endorses Khazei

  
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  Polling in the Democratic primary for the special election for Senate in Massachusetts has consistently placed Attorney General Martha Coakley first. Past that, its a bit of a jumble: Representative Mike Capuano is second or battling for second with businessman and former Republican Steve Pagliuca, and City Year ...
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• HCR Debate to Begin in Senate Today, 123 Uninsured People Could Die Today

  
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  Its all business as usual starting tomorrow in D.C. The debate is expected to last at least several weeks. Democrats would like to pass a bill by Christmas, but have yet to find a formula that can win 60 votes, the number required to conclude debate. Complicating the situation, lawmakers from both parties ...
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• This Week in Congress

  
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  In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: First Vote of the Week... Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... Friday p.m. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009 On Monday, the House will not be in session. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009 On Tuesday, the House will meet at 2:00 p.m. for ...
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• Cheers and Jeers: Monday

  
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  From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... The Not-Too-Distant Future: 7am  [ Ring!!! ]  "Helloooo!"  "Hello? Is this the new government-funded Spiritual Care office ?"  "Why, yeeeesss!"  "Oh, good. I, uh...I need some help."  "Whats yer name, darlin?"  "My name? Tim...er, um...Zim! Zim Zeithner!" ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
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  Paul Krugman : You might think, then, that doing something about the employment situation would be a top policy priority. But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity. There’s a pervasive sense in ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
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  Riding the Diary Rescue streetcar tonight are blank frank, HoosierDeb, ItsJessMe, srkp23, and jlms qkw, with YatPundit in the motormans chair on an unseasonably-warm New Orleans night. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. The ...
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• On Party Purity and Eleventh Commandments

  
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  You almost always hear it referenced as "Reagans 11th Commandment." It is a simple, one sentence warning against intra-party divisiveness that dates back two generations: "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican." The irony, of course, is that while it is almost universally attributed to Reagan, he ...
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• Resurrecting reconciliation

  
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  The completely predictable (and often predicted) post-cloture breath-holding from LIeberman, Lincoln, et al., in which they loudly insist they wont allow a health care bill with a public option to go forward, has begun. And with it has come renewed calls for the use of the budget reconciliation process to pass the ...
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• Midday Open Thread

  
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  Dick Lugar, the ranking republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said we should set aside the health care debate and focus on Afghanistan. Four Washington police officers were gunned down in an ambush at a coffee shop this morning. None of the patrons or employees were hurt. A Canadian ...
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• Book review: Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bright-Sided”

  
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  Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America By Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt: New York Hardcover, 256 pages, $12.42 October 2009 In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, positive thoughts were flowing out into the universe ...
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• The Venus Syndrome

  
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  Its that most wonderful time of the year! Christmas decorations are going up all over America. Those colorful little strings of twinkling lights racing down eaves and winding artfully around tree trunks can do more than paint pretty holiday vistas. We can use them as an intuitive probe to look at our nearest neighbor ...
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• A Purity Test for Democrats

  
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  The RNC is pushing a purity test for Republicans.  True to form, the modern GOP has enshrined an off-the-cuff remark of St. Ronnie the Intolerant and declared that anyone who doesnt leap over at least 8 of 10 newly-created hurdles is no longer welcome at the elephant trough. You dont have to read past the preamble ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
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  Sunday funnies punditry. Nicholas Kristof : John’s story is not so unusual. A Harvard study, to be published next month in the American Journal of Public Health, suggests that almost 45,000 Americans die prematurely each year as a consequence of not having insurance. John may become one of them. If a ...
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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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