Trick-or-treating in Berkeley, CA, as a pollster: what I found out while...
This is my very first diary. I conducted a little political experiment on Halloween and thought I’d share my observations with fellow Kossaks. I went trick-or-treating with my kid, dressed as a...
View ArticleJohn Nichols of The Nation nails it
Since Taibbi’s article in the Rolling Stone the other day, this one strikes me as another really good one, but for different reasons. While Taibbi strikes a deep emotional nerve, John Nichols of the...
View ArticleBernie is Correct: Climate Change and Corporate Greed are the Top Two Threats...
I feel compelled to address the absolutely crucial issue of national security that seems to have generated a lot of hot gas post-debate. Bernie is absolutely right in his statement that climate change...
View ArticleDoes Hillary's Foreign Policy Experience Translate to Being More Qualified as...
Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, laid out her foreign policy platform at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City last Thursday. Promise of a lot more war and bullying of allies....
View ArticleAncient Chinese Curse: May You Live in Interesting Times
We are living in interesting times. Question is, have we been cursed, or blessed? Or both? The 1% have been quietly at work for decades bleeding the rest of us dry. One could say since the dawn of...
View ArticleFrom a Frustrated White Mom to my Black Brothers and Sisters re Support for...
Yesterday the New York Times – a decidedly establishment newspaper that has generally been anti-Bernie from day one – published an opinion by Charles M. Blow, a black man tired of white people telling...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Best Qualified for Commander-in-Chief
I wrote a related diary Does Hillary's Foreign Policy Experience Translate to Being More Qualified as Commander-in-Chief three months ago and got instantaneously and viciously attacked by Hillary’s...
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