» Republican outreach report card: Graded 'F' for Fail
19/05/13 09:45 from Daily Kos
Students holding report cards We have had numerous articles here in recent days about Jason Richwine, his racist Republican sponsored research on Latino low IQ (and about blacks too ) for which he received a doctorate from Harvard, and the..

» I'm So Old I Remember When $86 Billion Was A Lot Of Money
19/05/13 09:09 from Eschaton
We could build the California HSR for this, basically. And we spend it every year. It's 4 times the GDP of Afghanistan. The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for fu..

» Nostalgia
19/05/13 09:08 from Eschaton
It may seem hard to believe, but long before the Dancin' Master took over for Working Class Tim, Meet the Press provided an actual service to the public. Also interesting that the right wing bias was pretty much in place back then.

» Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday
19/05/13 08:00 from Feministe
Promote yourself. Similar Posts: Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Jill January 6, 2013 Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Jill January 13, 2013 Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Jill January 20, 2013 Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by J..

» The next biggest scandal ever, until the next one
19/05/13 08:00 from Daily Kos
Yes, Mitch McConnell. IRS bureaucrats targeting "tea party"-related groups is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy meant to distract from all the other conspiracies, and everything is orchestrated by the top..

» XVIII
19/05/13 06:00 from Eschaton
David Waldman's weekly compilation of reported gun accidents .  Hashtag: #gunFail

» Abreviated Pundit Round-up
19/05/13 02:11 from Daily Kos
The New York Times adds its voice to the chorus crying out for action on climate change. The news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million for the first time i..

» Sunday Talk: You read it here first
18/05/13 23:00 from Daily Kos
When Bob Woodward publishes the definitive history of Barack Obama's second term ( maybe sooner rather than later ), this will be presented as the week that Politico pwned the news cycle —and the president lost the village . I mean that bo..

» Late Night
18/05/13 22:43 from Eschaton
rock on.

» Let Damian Walk X2: Two Events Planned In Support Of Transgender Senior Damian Garcia
18/05/13 21:11 from planetransgender
There will be two rallies in support of Damian Garcia the male transgender student from Albuquerque NM. Damian may not attend his own graduation on May 22nd because the school's refusal to allow him to wear a black robe, the color traditio..

» Saturday Evening Thread
18/05/13 18:53 from Eschaton

» typetext
18/05/13 17:40 from No More Mister Nice Blog
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO, OBAMA IS NOT THE FIRST PRESIDENT WHO HAD A SERVICEMEMBER HOLD AN UMBRELLA FOR HIM The ridiculous Obama umbrella "scandal" has been pretty thoroughly debunked by The Atlantic, by The Atlantic again, by The Washingto..

» Donald Rumsfeld has written an advice book. Oh, yay.
18/05/13 17:30 from Daily Kos
Winning. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has published a new book. It's a book of advice. You too can get advice from The Man Who Screwed Up The War. You can give it as a gift to someone you want to catastrophically fail at lif..

» Open thread: Cato, outreach and shame
18/05/13 17:00 from Daily Kos
What's coming up on Sunday Kos ... Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave, by Hunter The next biggest scandal ever, until the next one, by Hunter Republican outreach report card: graded "F" for Fail, by Denise Oliver..

» Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change
18/05/13 15:00 from Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226..

» This week in the war on voting: North Carolina 'ground zero' in voter suppression fight
18/05/13 14:30 from Daily Kos
This week in the war on voting is a joint project of Joan McCarter and Meteor Blades. • North Carolina 'ground zero' in fight against voter suppression : • Democrats introduce bill to reform and reauthorize the Election Assistance Commissi..

» Midday open thread
18/05/13 14:00 from Daily Kos
You people...rock! Since Markos announced our endorsement of Virginia state senate candidate Evandra Thompson over Liebermanesque turn-coat Rosalyn Dance, more than three hundred of you have donated more than $8,000 (quadrupling her cash o..

» This week in the War on Workers: California hospital workers to strike
18/05/13 12:55 from Daily Kos
Workers at the University of California hospital system are planning a two-day strike to protest inadequate staffing levels, increased use of temp workers, and changes to their pension plan, though the university announced Friday that the ..

» Saturday morning nutpick: if this is post-racial America...
18/05/13 12:00 from Daily Kos
Today's source material: I guess that Benghazi thing isn't panning out, Republicans don't care about spying on the AP, and the IRS scandal is losing steam. So on to the next one! But ... is there anything more stupid than this? As you'll s..

» Transgender Senior Damian Garcia Would Walk Graduation Without A robe If Allowed
18/05/13 11:56 from planetransgender
“I just want to walk in my black robe, nice and proud and have that memory to look back on with my family and friends,” said Damian Garcia. “I would rather not walk than to embarrass myself by wearing a female robe.” Damian will not be all..

» Afternoon Thread
18/05/13 11:54 from Eschaton
enjoy

» Republicans Seek to Avoid Sacrifice Again
18/05/13 10:50 from Hillbilly Report - Front Page
Republicans are determined to "fix" everything except what is really wrong with America. While trying yet again to repeal Obamacare and obsessing over every imagined scandal in the book they are refusing to pass a jobs bill to provide relie..

» typetext
18/05/13 10:13 from No More Mister Nice Blog
IF THIS IS YOUR BABY IN AN INCUBATOR, MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO RETHINK YOUR P.R. STRATEGY I think the IRS story has the potential to be very damaging to the Obama presidency -- but not if this is the right's idea of a victim with a tear-jerking ..

» Animal Nuz #149
18/05/13 10:00 from Daily Kos