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Mark Penn's smear machine

   While Obama and Edwards take heat for attacking Mrs. Clinton, imagined or justified, by the media and even the left media, Mrs. Clinton has stayed out of the attacking more or less.  The only...

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NCLB - compare the candidates

NCLB is often discussed on this site as something that needs to be scrapped.  I agree with this completely, as Ruben Salazar states in this diary :  http://www.dailykos.com/...i completely disagree...

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the undeniable power of CEO-Barbie!

How well can the US regulate lead painted toys from China/poisonous dog food/ engine coolant toothpaste?  http://www.thenation.com/... from the nation implies that the idea that our congress can repair...

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the real issue of this election - government contracts

In Disaster Capitalism The New Economy of Catastrophe in Harper's Magazine http://www.harpers.org/... Naomi Klien defines the direction of unregulated government contracts at home and in Iraq.  In...

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Iraq funding approved by congress Sept 27 (shhhhh!)

I searched the kos and there was no diary about this.  Not only did congress vote to raise the debt ceiling (yet again!) but they also voted to increase the funding of the war to increase funding for 9...

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Hillary's voting record

We have been told a lot that Hillary has a great voting record.  Percentage-wise, according to vote-smart she votes in favor of democratic special interest groups.But what does she really believe?  The...

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will Hillary privatize social security?

Hillary's 'American Retirement Accounts' look a lot like the Bush plan to privatize social security.  I have put both below, but with the part in Bush's plan about phasing out social security aside.  I...

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'what's the matter with Kansas?' D-party  version

In "What's the matter with Kansas?", the author, Frank examines the use of social conservatism to lure voters to vote against their interests in favor of what would best serve corporations.  And then...

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The Kurds attacking Iran!  Iran says US encouraging it.

With all eyes on Turkey, something a lot more sinister is happening on the other side of northern Iraq.  Iran says the US is encouraging it.  http://www.nytimes.com/...Yet out of the public eye, a...

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Bush to sanction Iran Thursday

(NYtimes)  The Bush administration will announce a long-debated policy of new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, accusing the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting...

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I believe Hillary

Or rather I believe that she believed that the Kyle-Lieberman vote was a vote for diplomacy.  This diary isn't about whether or not it was.  It's about the troubling trend Hillary has of believing...

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Bill Clinton, lest we forget

This is not a diary to provide you with all of the details of the Clinton presidency.  This is a diary to remind people that Clinton was not a liberal and not all 'flowers and sunshine'.  I have...

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filibuster HR 1955!  

I'm not the one to be writing this diary, as my skills in this area don't seem to be the best, but there isn't a diary on this topic that I've found and it seems that we very desperately need to be...

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boys vs girls today in education

What's going on here?  More girls than boys get into colleges these days.  In public education, when they have selective schools that are geared towards college-bound students, girls are more...

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no health insurance for 65 and up

If you are over 65, you may not be eligible for your employer-based health insurance anymore.  Here is a diary also about this issue :  http://www.dailykos.com/...This is happening at the same time...

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Paul Krugman gets it

There was a diary this weekend about Paul Krugman's column on trade.  The diary is here.  http://www.dailykos.com/...It seems the Universal Belief by economists is that free trade has not caused people...

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Obamamania

Obama, Oprah... Who are these 'Media Black Leaders' and why do white people like them so much?  White people like black leaders who do not talk about race, about economic inequality, who are...

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fear

This is NOT a candidate diary.  I will say upfront that I am for Edwards, but this is not about him.  This is something that democrats have been neglecting to think about when they vote in the...

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why I will vote for Hillary this Tuesday

It's all false.  All of it.  The reasons most give for supporting Obama over Clinton are false.  Any of us who were supporting Kucinich and Edwards (true 'outsiders' - although Kucinich more than...

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Hillary in Madison

This will be a quick one because it's late and I'm tire and I have to work tomorrow.  I went to see Hillary today at the Monona Terrace (the construction of the place I opposed back when they were...

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