Daily Kos
A popular and influential liberal blog featuring commentary and analysis on the latest political maneuvering.
Author: A group blog, Daily Kos is the brainchild of Markos Moulitsas, aka "kos," who created the blog in 2002. Kos is a military veteran and trained, though nonpracticing, lawyer. He is author of the books Taking on the System and Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics and writes a weekly column for The Hill. Other posters include Daily Kos executive editor Susan Gardner and a number of contributing editors: stay-at-home mother Barbara Morrill; actor and playwright Arjun Jaikumar; novelist Mark Sumner; Dr. Greg Dworkin, chief of pediatric pulmonology and medical director of the pediatric inpatient unit at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn.; Georgia Logothetis, an associate at Arnstein & Lehr in Chicago; Internet consultant Michael Lazzaro; and Laura Clawson, a senior writer at Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO.
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Recent Posts from Daily Kos
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Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread
For nearly four decades, since environmental legislation was first enacted, ecp-groups have found the Supreme Court to be more or less favorable to the cases they have brought before it. Not so with Chief Justice…
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Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Tonight's Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, shayera, noddem, jennyjem, grog, and ybruti while the jet-lagged editor is dadanation. The rescued diaries Username4242 posts great pictures (along with very informative text) of the candidates for Bonus Dinosaur…
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Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 7/03/09
I was busy most of the day, but I heard that something might have happened with regard to the 2010 elections. Some sort of a candidate announcement. Might have been a governors race? Perhaps someone…
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Top 10 reasons for Palin resignation
Feel free to add your own theories in the comments.
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Palin secedes from office. Also.
So Sarah Palin has resigned. From four colleges. From her job with the Oil & Gas Commission. And now finally, from her job as governor. Highly unusual for someone once so determined to climb the…
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The Worst Health Care Reform Money Can Buy
This will shock you, I know, but corporate interests have signficiantly outspent consumer groups in the health care reform debate. In the first three months of 2009, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has spent…
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Cheers and Jeers: Mutton and Hard Cider Friday!
From the MASSACHUSETTS-ANNEXED FRONTIER TERRITORY OF MAINE... The Declaration of Independence: Brittle Parchment of Liberty If you are going to sever ties to your Commonwealth through bloody struggle, it is considered polite to write down…
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Move over Mark Sanford...
Meet the GOP's newest favorite wingnut from South Carolina, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint: DeMint Supports Honduras Military Coup Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has come out in support of the military coup in Honduras, chastising President…
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Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Coming up on Sunday Kos ... Next week, Presidents Obama and Medvedev will meet in Moscow to negotiate a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Plutonium Page will discuss the treaty and the role it plays…
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NRCC gives us a shout out
Every two years, Republicans try this crap. And every two years, people look at each other and say, "what the hell is a 'daily cause'?" “Tom Perriello’s national energy tax vote was the defining moment…