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NYT: "[Reid] Took Free Boxing Tickets"

I bring this up not to sabatoge our guy, but so that we can get a jump on it.  This is exactly the sort of opportunity that the RWCM loves to seize, distort, exaggerate, and conflate.NYT:WASHINGTON...

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Roll Call: The Recent Republican Congressional Leadership

And now, a list of the recent Republican Congressional leadership: Speakers of the House:1999-present (well, 2006):  Dennis Hastert.  Covered up predatory actions of disgraced former Republican...

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Rep. Jim Gibbons' former nanny an illegal immigrant

[UPDATE: As usual, I'm not the first on the uptake: RandyMI diared this last night. The story could still use the publicity though.] The Nevada State Democratic Party has obtained documentation which...

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Unbelieveable: Allen volunteers lie, go "canvassing" for Webb!

One of my friends is from Richmond, VA.  He's a right-leaning moderate, and he's been a supporter of George Allen for VA-SEN.   Until today. He just forwarded me an email from one of the volunteers of...

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SOTU Standing Ovation Annotation

I have far too little attention to just watch the SOTU address.  So here's an annotated list of all the standing ovations, complete with the preceding roughly-transcribed quote and the occasional...

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To the "I don't care" crowd:

I get it, all y'all: you don't wish cancer on anyone, and yet, you don't particularly care that Tony Snow's caught a resurgence of it.  That, in and of itself, isn't unreasonable.However, there's no...

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Two domestic and foreign plights of the Congolese

This past week, two articles were published about the plights of the Congolese.  First, the New York Times reveals the systematized sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Put simply,...

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Other states can pick a president too

With all due respect to the citizens of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, how is it fair that they get such disproportionate power over the rest of us every election cycle? Why should some...

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright: what the media DIDN'T show you

For two weeks now, the vast majority of media coverage surrounding Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Wright, has been a straw man of epic proportions.  After combing through countless sermons in order to...

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HOLY F**KING $HIT: Shocking data results!!!

After painstakingly analyzing every word of every recommended diary on dailykos.com for the last 27 months, my research has come to an end, and I am delighted to report my findings.  I have come to...

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Dina Titus: YES on HCR! (Send her a note of thanks!)

My wife and I spent months working on Dina Titus' gubernatorial campaign in Nevada (a tough loss to Jim Gibbons in 2006), then supported her successful run for Congress in 2008.  In the midst of a...

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So we've already thrown in the towel?

Okay, so I just read this NYT feature, which clearly says that there are no tax increases in either the Dem Senate or Repub House debt ceiling plans.What???Am I the last one at the party?  When did...

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