Is This the Killer Christie Quote?
In the midst of all the coverage of Chris Christie and his apparent use of pre-meditated lane closures at the approaches to the GW Bridge in Fort Lee as a vendetta against the local Democratic mayor...
View ArticleUS Security Community and Media Launch Full Scale Innuendo Attack on Snowden
It started for me this evening as I was watching the CBS Evening News.CBS just hired former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell as a "security consultant" and commentator and he wasted no time today...
View ArticlePA Fraktivist Barred from Setting Foot on Nearly 40% of her own Home County
A fascinating and horrifying story in this morning's UK Guardian newspaper about anti-fracking activist Vera Scroggins.Scroggins has spent the past five years in opposition to fracking in Susquehana...
View ArticleChristie Crony Just Named Head of NJ Ethics Commission (in Secret)
You KNOW things are heading south for embattled NJ Governor Chris Christie when you hear the latest of his maneuvers and it's a doozy. Susana Esposa Guerrero, who has worked in the governor’s...
View ArticleDocuments Link U.S. Law Firm With Efforts to Justify Imprisonment of Ukranian...
The New York Times today reports that in the wake of the sudden collapse of the Ukranian government and the hasty departure of its President, Viktor F. Yanukovych, apparently to Russia, a cache of over...
View ArticleThe Hazards of Being a "Weatherman"
Last Tuesday, resident Kos weatherperson weatherdude made front page news by proclaiming that rumors of a mega winter storm for a major part of the US were, as he proclaimed in the headline...a...
View ArticleI Got My Ph.D. Just By Learning These Weird Facts On The Internet
Only ONE of the following was made up. All the rest were gathered in just three days of Internet collecting. Can you spot the "fake" entry?Of course all of them can lead to brain rot. I am going to...
View ArticleCoal Mine Operators: If We Have to Protect Workers, We Go Broke
A chilling article in today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette drives another spike into coal industry attempts to portray their product as a source of "clean energy."Headlined New Rules Aim to Curb Black Lung,...
View ArticleBLOCKBUSTER: NLRB Ruling Holds McDonalds - Not Just Franchisees, Responsible...
A true blockbuster this afternoon as the NY Times reports that an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that McDonalds Corporation and not just its franchisees is responsible for...
View ArticleIn Dubai, the Wealth Gap is a Vast Abyss: Compare and Contrast
The NY Times this morning carries the following headline:Dubai’s Hotel Boom Has Designer LabelsThe air-conditioning vents in the Palazzo Versace hotel here zigzag like the Versace design. Every piece...
View Article"Hard" at Work - E-Mail files of PA GOP Execs Contain Porn
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports today that Pennsylvania's Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office has identified eight former employees whose agency email accounts " included images ranging from...
View ArticleBanks & Congress: Ready to Party Like It's 2008
Remember 2008? Massive debt in the form of failed mortgages and packages of debt so convoluted that parts of Wall Street were selling them and then betting against them at the same time? Remember the...
View ArticleThe Iowa Caucuses: Why Steve King is Great News for Democrats!
The NY Times reports on the 2015 exercise in GOP madness known as the Iowa Caucuses. The fact that their prime promoter is Iowa Congressman Steve King, is a good indicator of just how seriously warped...
View ArticleIs It Real or is it Memorex: Try Our Test
OK Kossacks....it is a Sunday afternoon and colder than a door handle at the dry ice factory, so time for a little fun quiz:You're watchin' your Toobz and you hear a politician saying something about...
View ArticleGuess What ALEC's Going After Now: Minimum Wage Hikes
In a lead article published late yesterday, headlined How a powerful rightwing lobby is plotting to stop minimum wage hikes Britain's Guardian newspaper (hello American media???) reports that the...
View ArticleNYC Comptroller: $2.5 B in Wall Street Fees Over Past Decade Ate Pension Fund...
The New York Times reports this morning that NY City Comptroller Scott Stringer is charging Wall Street with savaging the city's pension fund returns through a system of fees that drained profits over...
View ArticleDweb's EZ Explanation of How Free Market Economies Work
As my Kos signature has said for most of my increasingly lengthy membership in this esteemed venue:Free markets would be a great idea, if markets were actually free. And I always love to step in and...
View ArticleALERT: DFA Warning New TPP Provision Would Cut Medicare $700 Million to Help...
Just received a mailing today from Democracy for America with an alert that a new provision in the pending TPP Trade Bill, inserted by the GOP of course, would cut $700 million from Medicare to pay the...
View ArticleWhere Do You Stand on Bernie w/Poll
I've been reading lots of diaries on Kos about the relative merits of candidates and of course that includes Hillary and Bernie Sanders. (I am not including Elizabeth Warren here because I sincerely...
View ArticleErick Erickson and RedState Demonstrate Their Compassion Post Charleston
Many know Erick Erickson as one of the nastier strains of the right wing noise machine. His RedState blog is a go-to site for the paranoid fringe.I subscribe to his mailings to keep an eye on what he...
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