MSNBC, Thanks for Melissa Harris-Perry & Ezra Klein
MSNBC guest hosts rock!Ezra Klein is sitting in for Martin Bashir this week. Ezra is such a refreshing experience and a positive impact on the agenda, guests, and reporting.Later in the afternoon...
View ArticleGeorge Will Wrong Again - This Time About Taxing Millionaires
If taxes are raised for millionaires and billionaires, George Will says that they will simply move to where taxes are lower. Not only is Will wrong, the example he used, New Jersey, is precisely where...
View ArticleExecutive Order: Improve Federal Workforce Diversity
On August 18, 2011 the White House released an Executive Order Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce giving federal workers...
View ArticleBanks Still Robo-Signing And Fabricating
Robo-Signing Redux: Servicers Still Fabricating Foreclosure Documents by Kate Berry, Aug 31, 2011 5:47pm EDTSome of the largest mortgage servicers are still fabricating documents that should have been...
View ArticlePLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY: Oppose Troy Davis Death Penalty
Please take action and sign Amnesty International petition to oppose the death penalty execution scheduled for September 21 for Troy Davis.NOTE: Due to high volume of supporters, please keep trying to...
View ArticleObama WH, Women, and Diversity
I want to first bring your attention to two very good current diaries that reference “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President,” by journalist Ron Suskind, released...
View ArticleAre White Liberals Holding President Obama To A Double Standard?
Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science at Tulane University, has an article in the October 10, 2011 edition of The Nation - Black President, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are...
View ArticleWar Time Fraud Commission Ended Today - Evidence Sealed Until 2031
A Congressional investigation established in the last year of the Bush/Cheney administration finaly ended today. It was charged to study wartime contracting, contracting for the reconstruction,...
View ArticleZakaria Outrageously Calls To Suspend Davis-Bacon
On his CNN show this morning, GPS, Fareed Zakaria repeated his proposal to fast track public infrastructure projects but speeding up environmental readiness requirements and "suspend" the Davis-Bacon...
View ArticleIf Elected Romney Would Hire McKinsey or Bain to "Reorganize" The Federal...
Can McKinsey & Co. or Bain really fix the US Government?Mitt Romney told the Wall Street Journal last week that if he is elected President, he will "probably" hire McKinsey, the...
View ArticleKudos to Obama Admin Attack on Medicare Fraud Recovering $4.1 billion
HHS and DOJ recovered a record $4.1 billion last year!Kudos to Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.Medicare is a core element in our...
View ArticlePBS: Slavery By Another Name
Watch The Bricks We Stand On on PBS. See more from Slavery by Another Name.
View ArticleRick Santorum Parties With Dominionist Pastor Hagee
Where does Rick Santorum get his wild ideas? Well, maybe from Christian Zionist, dominionist, Texas megachurch, megamillionaire, Pastor John Haggee whose Christians United for Israel (CUFI) conferences...
View ArticleIt's Not Personal, Ann Romney, It's The Economy
It's not personal, Mrs. Romney. When consultants and strategists criticize your husband and his policies and his lame attempt to use you to deflect questions about the economy, it's really not personal...
View Article"Fix Income Inequality With $10 million Loans For Everyone!"
If Jamie Dimon can achieve much higher valuations for Chase and "potentially release tens of billions of value to his shareholders" then why hasn't he done it?Shelia Bair (bio) has been vocal since she...
View ArticleNYT Falsely Claimed Ivins Anthrax Killer
In today's New York Times International Herald Tribune, Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, considers the...
View ArticleRebuke John Sununu's Racism
Americans do have standards and values so when viewing TV/cable these standards should be respected. We shouldn't be spoon fed frank, fanatical racism without being called out for what it is. John...
View ArticleTPM: Lanny Davis Claims WH Threatened Him, Too
This is either the worst plot ever to encourage progressives, a flat out lie, or Gene Sperling has way too much time on his hands.
View ArticleBreaking - US Coastal Real Estate Market
If you're purchasing a family residence, vacation home, condo, rental property or a real estate investment on the beach today don't you want to know if the property will be gone in 50, 60, or 80 years?...
View ArticleWH Press Release on Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
The White House released this press statement a few hours ago announcing that the TPP is on track for a year end completion. It is a followup to bobswern's terrific diary today on the Trans-Pacific...
View ArticleDemocrats Don't Need To Cave or Not Cave On "Entitlements"
At the moment, HuffPost headlines, "WILL DEMS CAVE ON SOCIAL SECURITY?"Pundits summarize, Democrats won't "give on entitlements" and Republicans won't increase taxes. As if it's all just a poker game...
View ArticlePublic Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Warnings On TPP
FastTrack and trade policy explained in detail by Lori Wallach, the leader of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, on CSPAN Washington Journal.Wallach's honest-broker coverage is a compelling argument...
View ArticleAre You Ben Carson?
Do You remember when Time Magazine Person of The Year was YOU?You were chosen in 2006 as Time magazine's Person of the Year. This award recognized the millions of people who anonymously contribute...
View ArticleWhat If Freddie Gray's Neck Was Broken BEFORE He Was Dumped Into The Van?
The jury is in deliberations for Officer William Porter, the first of six police staff charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a young black man in Baltimore who died in custody, who was a driver of the...
View ArticleAngela Merkel, German Chancellor and Quiet Christian, TIME Person of the Year...
In The Economist today, coinciding with this Chancellor of the Free World cover for TIME Person of the Year 2015 being German Chancellor Angele Merkel, is a review of Germany, Britain and religion,...
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Americans Sell Mattresses
I just saw the first holiday mattress sale commercial of the holiday season. This absurd annual display of American consumerism, corporatism, and disrespect has evolved this year.King was posthumously...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: The Federal Adoption Assistance Program
One of Hillary Clinton’s major accomplishments is a largely unknown piece of legislation from 1997 that subsidized adoptions of high risk or hard to place orphans. The government sends checks monthly...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Chair of the Legal Services Corporation
There have been a few diaries addressing the narrative of Hillary Clinton’s life and accomplishments and I offer this one as an installment on her early career in federal government...
View ArticleObama Pardons 61 More Convicted of Drug Crimes!!!
The NYT is reporting this afternoon that Obama has commuted the sentences of 61 men and women convicted of drug crimes and who have been in prison for years, or decades.Leadership can not happen the...
View ArticleCalifornia 2016 Primary Mail-In Ballots Delivered - Vote Today!!!
Over 50% of Californians vote by mail.The California Primary is on June 7 so for early mail-in voters, official California Election Ballots were mailed to voters who requested them and most people...
View ArticleHillary Clinton GOTV - Action Diary
Hillary Opening new Office in San DiegoGood news! Hillary’s campaign is opening a new office in California — in San Diego!Hillary’s San Diego office opens tonight at 2044 First Avenue, 2nd Floor, San...
View ArticleTrump Conspiracies Not Being Reported! (With Poll)
Help! Please, before it’s too late, is there any evidence out there for these conspiracy theories?1. The NY-DC gossip is that Joe Scarborough, whose early morning MSNBC show has been Donald Trump’s...
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Margarita,"I'm a new citizen, it's my first election ever! I'm for Hillary...
Margarita is 50-something years old, from Mexico, a registered Democrat in the Ca-49, and she was my last call of the day phonebanking for Secretary Clinton. I was reticent initially to make calls, not...
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Hillary Clinton: Calling All San Diego Kossacks
Hillary for CaliforniaSan Diego Kossacks — GOTV Final 4 Days As is being done throughout the state, Hillary Clinton’s Southern California Field Organizer put the call out (see below) to San Diego Dems...
View Article#StopTPP Now - Pharma's Moving To Overrule Obamacare & Extend Patent...
The text of TPP is still being negotiated and, no surprise, it’s not going in the public’s favor. Now they’re stuffing anti-Obamacare language into TPP!It was reported yesterday afternoon that Orrin...
View ArticleTrump Spox Threatens President Obama [Poll]
Hold on to your bellies for what may be the funniest BS from the birther Trump.Via Trump’s Director of African-American outreach, Reality TV personality, Omarosa Manigault, the Trump camp has raised a...
View ArticleHackers Hijack All US Media
Am I the only one who cringes at the continuous, daily dumping and pumping up of Hillary’s personal and workplace emails? Hacked, illegally, and it gets instantly published, unconfirmed,...
View ArticleCa 49th Protest Largest Yet - Darrell Issa Is Doomed (Poll)
This morning’s weekly protest at Darrell Issa’s office in the Ca49th drew the largest crowd ever — over 800! The singing, chanting, musical crowd gets larger every week and the signs are so creative,...
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Hey Issa, Expect Us. Intimidation Won't Work One Bit. (Poll)
Republican Darrell Issa in CA49 is really pissed. He’s been the object of mockery in social media and he’s irritated. The persistent weekly protests, protesters showing up at fund raisers at hotels...
View ArticleLivestream: Rev. Barber And Clergy Answering His Call At McConnell's Office...
Livestream will begin soon, could be at any time over the next hour, and will be available at the Repairers of the Breach site afterward. Yesterday morning clergy and people of faith and conscience...
View ArticleWho Will Desperate Trump Take Down With Him? (Poll)
If the legend of the Epstein Tapes has any credence at all, an insane snippet in 45’s speech to the Boy Scouts yesterday could be a not so veiled message, like a final warning shot. It’s all closing in...
View ArticleOMG, Roy Moore.... (Poll)
….thankfully, is going down (any double entendre unintended). For now live onC-SPAN3, is the exciting, engrossing Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Senate GOP Tax proposal, or what they call the...
View ArticleCELEBRATE Darrell Issa's Retirement At His Ca49 Vista Office NOON TODAY (POLL)
There is a celebration rally today at noon at Darrell Issa’s office in Vista!xServing #CA49 has been the privilege of a lifetime. From the bottom of my heart - thank you - to everyone for your support...
View ArticleCA49: Issa's Gone And It's A New Day. Who's Running? (Poll)
The purpose here is to report what’s happening in the California’s 49th Congressional District, a strategic seat to flip. A lot has changed this week. First, let’s enjoy the moment and celebrate that...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Testing and Hawaii (Poll)
I’m a retired microbial scientist/computer scientist/business leader with crossover experience in emerging threats and disaster recovery (DR). DR planning is a pretty expensive addition to normal...
View ArticleAn Immoral Budget As Dangerous As A Bomb In The Subway
There are few more important jobs for leaders than serving the work with sufficient funds to keep the lights on and invest in progress. If the work is immoral then the budget will be the sustaining...
View ArticleBREAKING: Rep. Louise Slaughter Dead at 88
Rep. Louise Slaughter, the oldest sitting member of Congress, has died at 88US news 1 hour agoAccording to her office, the New York congresswoman passed away after being hospitalized for a fall at her...
View Article1984 Russian Active Measures Video [Poll]
There are probably many people, especially those of us who are younger, who’ve never seen this 1984 interview with a Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov, and since it appeared today on Twitter it’s an...
View ArticleWelcome #MoscowMitch And Darrell Issa To La Jolla. [Poll]
From a small facebook group:Congressman Darrell Issa invites you to honor Senate Majority Leader #MoscowMitch Monday, August 12, 20195pm - 7pmLa Jolla Beach and Tennis ClubWalnut Room.It will cost you...
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