On Pragmatism and its Discontents . . .
This may be a pretty short diary, but I'd like to weigh in for a moment on this question of "pragmatism" that people here at Daily Kos and elsewhere have been arguing about for the past few days.IMHO,...
View ArticleI Blame Kos
Yeah, I know it's his blog, but there's an argument to be made that the cause of all of the hand-wringing and garment-rendering going on in Democratic circles about President Obama and his capitulation...
View ArticleRedState on the Tax "Compromise" (w/Poll)
I thought it might be interesting to wade on over to the "other side" and see what they're saying about the Great Tax Compromise of 2010. The cool thing about the modern age of the Internets, is that...
View ArticleObama's Right-Wing Messaging
For those who may not quite understand the degree of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending happening on the Left in the wake of the President's Great Tax Compromise announcement yesterday, I think one of...
View ArticleAbercrombie pulls a "Lucy" on the Birthers . . .
Birthers' hopes dashed again:HONOLULU -- Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie will end his quest to prove President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii because it's against state law to release private...
View ArticleJudge Vinson Grants Conditional Stay on Health Care Decision
Today, the federal judge who declared the new health care law unconstitutional issued a new Order in the case, granting the Administration's Motion to Clarify, and issuing a stay on his original...
View ArticleWas bin Laden Killing a Summary Execution?
I've seen surprisingly little discussion here at Daily Kos about the legality or morality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, given that it's already being discussed extensively in other parts of the...
View ArticleBin Laden's Sons Call for an "Inquiry"
The family of Osama bin Laden, led by his fourth son Omar bin Laden, has called for an inquiry "into the fundamental question as to why our father was not arrested and tried but summarily executed...
View ArticleSCOTUS Upholds Arizona Immigration Law
No, not SB 1070. This is about another Arizona immigration law that imposes state law sanctions on employers for hiring undocumented workers:The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes...
View Article"Winter is Coming . . . " (?)
Could there be a kernel of scientific reality underpinning a central story line in HBO's hit new medieval-esque fantasy series, Game of Thrones? What may be the science story of the century is...
View ArticleHate Speech . . . Who Decides?
I found this comment to roxymeteorite's diary about the use of the term "surrender monkey" to describe the President particularly illuminating as to the crux of the issue:Can't you even begin to fathom...
View Article"Vote How You Like, But Policies Cannot Change"
The EU Observer has an interesting article out yesterday that describes a strange new kind of democracy beginning to take hold in Europe:The formal trappings of clean elections - in which political...
View ArticleNew Scopes Trial? Federal Judge Rules that Life Begins at Conception
A Federal judge in Indiana today delivered a partial victory for both sides in the abortion debate, but may in the process of have set the stage for a 21st Century Scopes Trial where the courts may be...
View ArticleObama: I Didn't Realize the Magnitude of the Recession
During the President's recent Twitter Townhall, Obama was asked a question about what he might have done differently during his first few months in office to respond to the economic crisis. From...
View ArticleMedved's "2012 Obama Nightmare"
Conservative commentator Michael Medved has a piece up at the Daily Beast, two-thirds of which would likely warm the cockles of progressive hearts everywhere. He imagines a news report following...
View ArticleNo, No, No, No!!! (Don't Threaten Social Security Payments)
I'm generally a big fan of brooklynbadboy, but I take great exception to this diary on today's comment by President Obama that if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2, the Social Security checks...
View ArticleSmiley and West "Poverty Tour" to Critique Obama's Policies Toward the Poor
I haven't seen this covered yet, so I thought I'd drop a quick post. As a legal aid lawyer myself, I see firsthand everyday how much more difficult things have become for the poor in the last couple of...
View ArticleWaPo Poll: Prez's Base Losing Faith
The new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that the Democratic base's faith in Barack Obama's ability to deliver on the most important issues to them has collapsed:The Post-ABC poll found that the...
View ArticleI'm Not Seeing the Big Loss Here
I look around at the hand-wringing here and elsewhere in the progressive blogosphere, and I'm not really understanding it. I've said earlier and elsewhere that I believe that President Obama committed...
View ArticleHelp Reelect Obama: Quit (Looking for) Work
Today's job's report brought marginally good news on the economy: the unemployment rate ticked down from 9.2% to 9.1%. But if you look a little deeper into the numbers, you'll discover that the...
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