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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• AR-Sen: Time to Take a Stand, Blanche

  
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  Blanche Lincoln is between a rock and a hard place. Shes a Democratic senator up for reelection in a relatively conservative state. Making it worse , In terms of trends, Arkansas was Obamas worst state, by Superman-esque leaps and bounds. The president underperformed John Kerry by six points statewide, and ...
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• Brother Can You Spare $30 Billion

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  It seems that there was a perfectly valid reason to allow Wall Street firms to jump to the front of the line for H1N1 vaccines -- they needed to stay healthy so they could spend nearly $30 billion in bonuses: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors ...
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• Dems in Blue Seats Who Voted Against Choice

  
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  The following Democrats sit in blue seats compared to the nation as a whole (as measured by the Cook Partisan Voting Index ), yet voted for the anti-choice Stupak amendment : District Representative PVI PA-14 Doyle, Mike D+19 AL-07 Davis, Artur D+18 CA-43 Baca, Joe D+13 OH-17 Ryan, Timothy ...
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• Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... C&J Writes A Follow-up Letter Dear Conservative Free-Market Capitalism Muckety Mucks, Ninety-one days ago I gave you thirty days to fix the U.S. economy that you broke: Im just a simple, average citizen who has listened to you jawbone for decades---amplified ...
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• White House: No Decision Yet on Afghanistan

  
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  In the past two days, several news reports have indicated that President Obama plans to add tens of thousands of new U.S. troops to the 67,000-member contingent that is already in the country. McClatchy first reported the supposed decision on Saturday and other media outlets, including CBS News, the Associated Press ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Tonights Diary Rescue is brought to you by Louisiana 1976, grog, vcmvo2, dopper0189, BentLiberal, and jennyjem, with vcmvo2 editing . The diaries up for rescue are: mangelwurzel gives a detailed account of his personal experience twenty years ago in Berlin when "the Wall" came down: Partying at the Wall 20 ...
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• Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 11/9/09

  
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  As expected, the new week brings a smattering of polling data (mostly of the primary election variety), as people start finally boxing up all of their 2009 Election decorations and moving onward to the next trip to the ballot box. CA-Gov/CA-Sen: New LA Times/USC Poll Shows Intriguing 10 Landscape There is no ...
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• Gay Bloggers Play Hard Ball: No More Money to DNC and Obama Campaign

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 142
  The big gay news today is the latest call to action by AMERICAblogs
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• Ditch the DCCC

  
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  I wrote a week or so ago that donating to the DCCC was donating to anti-health care reform Dems . Here was the list, and their final vote : AL-02 (Bright, Blue Dog -- NO) AL-05 (Griffith, Blue Dog -- NO) AR-02 (Snyder -- YES) CO-04 (Markey -- NO) FL-08 (Grayson -- YES) ID-01 (Minnick, Blue Dog -- NO) ...
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• Midday Open Thread

  
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  John Aravosis at Americablog has launched a boycott : We are launching today a donor boycott of the DNC. Its really more of a "pause," than a boycott. Boycotts sounds so final, and angry. Whereas this campaign is temporary, and is only meant to help some friends - President Obama and the Democratic party - who ...
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• “Pro-Choice” McCaskill Could Support Stupak Coathanger Amendment

  
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  Claire McCaskill needs to read the Stupak-Pitts  amendment . Appearing on MSNBCs "Morning Joe", McCaskill was asked whether an amendment added by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to the Houses legislation would be too bitter a pill to pass the Senate. "I am not sure that it is," replied the Missouri Democrat. ...
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• Jim Cooper, newly minted compromiser

  
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  Interesting . I will vote yes on H.R. 3962. My vote is not an endorsement of all the provisions of the bill because I find much of the bill to be deeply flawed. There is little chance that H.R. 3962 will become law due to the long legislative process. My reason for voting yes is to advance the cause of health ...
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• What the Stupak-Pitts Coathanger Amendment Does

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Heres what it says : The amendment will prohibit federal funds for abortion services in the public option. It also prohibits individuals who receive affordability credits from purchasing a plan that provides elective abortions. However, it allows individuals, both who receive affordability credits and who do ...
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• Jack Reed: Snowe trigger still under discussion in Senate

  
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  Heres an unwelcome dose of reality after Saturday nights vote in the House: Jack Reed saying on CBS Face the Nation Sunday that he believes Olympia Snowes trigger is still alive in the Senate. BOB SCHIEFFER: Do you think, at this point, Senator Reed, that there are the votes in the Senate to pass the bill that ...
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• Sunday Loon Watch

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  The House passed a health care reform bill Saturday night, but Joe Lieberman and his Republican allies are still vowing to defeat health care reform.
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• The Dems Who Cast the Toughest Votes

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  While many Democrats in red districts voted against the House healthcare bill, quite a few representatives who hold tough seats did the courageous thing and voted "aye." These are the members of Congress who sit in Republican-leaning districts but still did the right thing : District Representative PVI ...
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• Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Food & Climate

  
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  In July 2008, Roni A Neff, Iris L Chan and Katherine Clegg Smith of the Center for a Livable Future published the outcome of their two-and-a-half-year study of 16 major daily newspapers in the journal Public Health Nutrition . They plugged in the key words "food," "farm," or "agriculture" in any of the 4582 articles ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
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  Tonights Diary Rescue has been brought to you by the following Rescue Rangers: vcmvo2, ItsJessMe, ybruti, dadanation, sunspark says, and mem from somerville as well as the letters P, D and Q. and yes, dadanation also faked being the editor. Rescued Diaries, The Unenergy discusses the requirements for ...
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• The Future of Marriage Equality in New Hampshire

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  In May, Maines legislature and governor made marriage equality the law of the state. In June, New Hampshires government did the same. We all know what happened in Maine last week. And almost immediately, questions started flying about New Hampshire, especially if you read Politico and Political Wire , both ...
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• The Kids Are Alright: Some Thoughts About Same-Sex Marriage

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  The following, hard as it might be to believe, is a true story. The setting: Driving in the family car to a lavish lunch at the local Carls Jr. drive-thru. Saturday afternoon, November 1st. 2008. My four year-old daughter is absorbed by a Disney cartoon on her seatback DVD player, while my seven year-old son ...
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