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Kos Wrong at Cato: The Market Did Not Correct Microsoft
This is an excerpt from something Kos has written for "Cato Unbound" on the idea of the Libertarian Democrat.In the waning years of the Clinton Administration, the Justice Department waged a massive...
View ArticleDid you move a lot as a child? Or stay put?
I noticed I moved a lot as a kid, and I know this formed me philosophically and politically. For one, I saw a dozen different situations and conditions, schools of different wealth and character....
View ArticleThe Best Commercial Ever: Whale Song
This is important... a secret small hour musing for two types of people, American Insomniacs and the rest of the world... though actually it's already 7am on the East Coast so you guys are just early...
View ArticleStrong infrastructure, fair play, and sober leadership
Today this is what I think, tomorrow it might be different, but if I had a political party of my own, it's motto would be "strong infrastructure, fair play, and sober leadership"... and if I had a...
View ArticleThe Problem With Democracy and DailyKos
The problem with Democracy can be put simply. Popular things suck. They invariably suck. Many people that like them know they suck. McDonalds is popular, and it sucks. Very few eating there will...
View ArticleWe Don't Know What We Want
I have asked and asked, what are you willing to demand Democrats give us if they win? For our votes. "Nothing" is the answer... "demand after they win" is the answer. We are afraid to demand anything....
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DailyKos is for Democrats
So what's a "Democrat"? I missed another one of these "I thought this was a progressive site"-"No, it's a Democratic Site" parties dkos likes to have and good thing too. But it did make me want to...
View ArticleHastert blogs at RedState
I have not been by redstate in a while, but today I came upon this (to be honest I went to see what they were saying about Webb)... At a fundamental, instinctive level, Democrats think that there must...
View ArticleJerome a Paris "Save Your Principles Until After Nov 7"
No, I don't want Jerome to save it... I cannot make a comment in the gargantuan thread in Jerome's diary, "Is DailyKos Right Wing" because it screws up my browser it's so big and contorted. My view...
View ArticlePolitical Philosophy: Bring America Back To Us
The Real Game starts Nov 8. Use progressive policy to bring America back to us. This is going to be a progressive victory... we do not have to adopt libertarian principles just because libertarians...
View ArticleAnything Saved Until Nov 8 Doesn't Count
Well, with Jerome's input about dkos vis a vis "the right wing" of politics, and now with Stoller and Bowers up in arms over Ellen Tauscher and possibly Bill Clinton, we have the "wait until Nov 8"...
View ArticleLiberal Victory On The Horizon
Ironically, it's debatable if we have ever had the America of our dreams, but it's easy to miss what you had when it's gone away. Some would like us to wait to celebrate victory until there is victory,...
View ArticleDeadly Iraq Video On Youtube
I thought carefully before using that epiteth. Evidently soldiers in Iraq chasing down these guys in a car that had fired on them. Eventually they take off on foot and get shot in the street, civilians...
View ArticleWhat Daily Kos Needs More Of
Me. Comments about me. Diaries about me. There should be a lot more talk about me on dailykos. About my ideas and my opinions from third points of view. I could have written about "Piece Activism". And...
View ArticlePiece Activism vs. Peace Activism
If there is one thing I can't stand, it's piece activists. They are, to put it shortly, sanctimonious pricks. They look at the world through the most cynical and distrustful eyes, yet also with the...
View ArticleThe History of Gratitude in Politics
... And that's after extensive research. :::RedDan Memorial Link:::WA-08 More Doorbelling for Darcy Hotlist. PS: I am not politics, I'm a citizen, I am grateful.
View ArticleHRH asked for a diary "about having no fear"
It's right before a momentus election. These are my attempts at MLW and Booman Tribune, nearly identical. Not too much of a reaction eh? I suck at motivational speech! That's not to say I don't like...
View ArticleLet The Game Begin
The game of politics begins today. The game is not the election... that's the pre-game, it's important, because it's the game that decides who plays the real game... it's the tryouts. And games they...
View Article"What is the Mandate?"? We Need Progressive Policy
There is already conversation about how conservative these new Democratic office holders are conservative, that the "change" embraced by voters is actually a change to a "more conservative Democratic...
View ArticleOnly The Truth Matters
It was inevitable that there would be a question after the election of exactly what sort of policies the voters have "voted for". The fact is, they did not vote for particular policies, but for people,...
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