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, a/k/a "kos," who created the blog in 2002. Kos is a military veteran and trained, though non practicing, lawyer. He is author of the book, "Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics."
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Recent Posts from Daily Kos
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Betting it all on criminal wiretapping prosecutions.
Rep. Mark Udall, running for Senate in Colorado, is among the House Dems who recently voted for the FISA bill. That by itself isn't particularly remarkable. It's symptomatic of running for higher office, just as…
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Midday open thread
The most unpopular president in history is still a formidable fundraiser even as his party frets over how to keep him confined to the attic during the upcoming convention. Some, in fact, don't even…
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Makeover: Let's Make McCain More Like Bush
So, I have a great idea: With four months until Election Day, and four months since Sen. McCain secured his party's nomination, the Arizona senator is relaunching his campaign. Trailing Democrat Barack Obama in the…
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MN-Sen: Introducing the "Blo & Go"!
From one standpoint, Minnesota's senior Senator Norm Coleman is certainly a lucky man. He has a lovely wife, Laurie Coleman, who has succeeded at several walks of life: she is a former runway model and…
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Surprise! Rove's not honoring his subpoena.
When we last left our heroes, House Judiciary committee Democrats had... renewed their demand that former White House political adviser Karl Rove testify publicly on the politicization of the Justice Department but suggested they may…
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Independence Day weekend, and the pundits are uneasy. Clarence Page: A century ago the satirist Ambrose Bierce defined a conservative as "a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who…
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Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Tonight, our 4th of July Rescue Rangers Marching Band is comprised of vcmvo2 on clarinet, srkp23 on trumpet, ezdidit on trombone, dopper0189 on sax, grog on drums, and jlms qkw on flute, with watercarrier4diogenes…
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Hey, Baby, It's the 4th of July
This holiday isn't this holiday without Dave Alvin: His friends and sometimes Knitters bandmates in X have a great version of it, too, but it's Dave's song, so he gets the honors of the video.…
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What's Your All-American Holiday Food?
Most holidays (the meaningful ones, anyway) end up centered around a meal. A holiday meal isn't just food, of course. It's a chance to come together and share, to join in a fellowship that echoes…
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When in the course of human events....
Anything sound familiar? IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political…