Municipal Election Results Open Thread

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Tuesday November 01, 2005 · 6:25 PM PST

2005/11/01 · 18:25

Ok, Today is Election Day in many municipalities throughout the country. Well at least I think it is (most municipal elections appear to be next week). The only one I know of is in Frederick, Maryland. If anyone knows where I can see live results for that race or any other race in the country today, please use the comments to post them. I will occasionally post updates with anything interesting up here. Read More

An Account From Inside Charity Hospital, NOLA

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 12:30 PM PDT

2005/09/09 · 12:30

This come's via a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of one of my closest friends (amazing how things spread via email, isn't it). it's apparently the account of a first year resident at Charity Hospital in NOLA. I'm not going to comment, the account speaks for itself. Read More

Wherein I Defend the Honor of Daily Kos

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 7:35 AM PDT

2005/08/22 · 07:35

Ok, last week I was riding the metro and reading that free daily with a right-wing lean to its editorial pages, the DC Examiner, on my way home from work. In the opinion pages I found things an article on Daily Kos. Unfortunately, it was a right-wing smear job of the worst kind: Read More

Susie Turnbull Reports from OH-02

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Friday July 29, 2005 · 10:40 AM PDT

2005/07/29 · 10:40

I just got a call from my friend and DNC Vice Chair Susie Turnbull who is on the ground in OH-2. She wanted me to pass on some comments from being there on-the-ground to all her friends here at Daily Kos and over at MyDD.

Susie said that everyone there is "buzzing" and the office is full of "constant activity." She also said that everyone there is very appreciative of all of the netroots support the Hackett campaign has received.

Lastly, she said that she had just met Paul Hackett and was really impressed by his confidence and friendliness. Hackett said that he was "bracing for a fight" and expected to win.

Steele: Rove's Money More Important Than His Possible Treason

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Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 1:37 PM PDT

2005/07/13 · 13:37

Last week, Lt. Governor and Senate candidate Michael "Principles? What Principles" Steele (R-MD) refused to condemn a fundraiser held by his boss, Gov. Ehrlich, at a an all-white country club that discriminates against African-Americans like himself. After all, they were helping his boss raise money for his campaign.

This week, I found out that Karl Rove will be hosting a fundraiser for Michael Steele's Senate campaign. I guess among Republicans, money is more important that principles. Why else would Michael Steele be willing to receive fundraising help, heck even be willing to be in the same room, with a man who disclosed the identity of an undercover CIA agent. I sure hope someone gets a photo of Steele and Rove together so that Steele's opponent can run a campaign ad showing Steele hanging out with someone who will hopefully be a known criminal by the election. Read More

Governor Ehrlich Hangs out with Bigots

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Friday July 08, 2005 · 9:22 AM PDT

2005/07/08 · 09:22

The Republican Party's phony outreach to the African-American community is exposed for what it really is by stories such as this one that I found over at the Think Progress blog Here we have Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich holding a $100,000 fundraiser at the "exclusive" Elkridge (Country) Club. The Elkridge club uses the word "exclusive" to describe itself because it's a more PR friendly way of saying "we don't let black people join our club." When I first read that such a place still existed in today's world, I was rather shocked. I was on the other hand not all that surprised that Governor Ehrlich would choose to hold a fundraiser there. After all, this is the same Governor who said that "multiculturalism is crap." Read More

MD Republican Senate Candidate Endorses Hate Speech!

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Thursday June 09, 2005 · 10:17 AM PDT

2005/06/09 · 10:17

I received the following email from the Maryland Democratic Party Chair Terry Lierman and it is truly shocking. Apparently Michael Zak, a speaker at a GOP dinner in Calvert County, said that "mastery over blacks has always been Democratic policy." And get this: Lt. Governor Michael Steele, a likely candidate for Senate and favorite of the rightwing blogosphere, called Zak's book "his favorite book!"

And so much for our SCLM. Howard Dean mispeaks a few times and they are all over him but Steele endorses a crazy speaker like Zak and it doesn't get a peep of media coverage even by the major Maryland papers. Read the whole thing below and sign the petition. And then please recommend this diary (sorry for the recommendation begging but I real think Michael Steele needs to be exposed). Maybe then the conservative media will actually pay attention. I suppose it couldn't hurt to write the Post's ombudsman or letters to the editor too. Read More

Advice Needed Re: Life Decision & the Hatch Act

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Tuesday May 31, 2005 · 1:51 PM PDT

2005/05/31 · 13:51

I've been around on Kos for a very long time, since the MT days in fact. All of you are like a very big extended family for me. When I started reading/commenting on Daily Kos in late 2002 I was a Freshman and college. It's surprising how much time has flown by because I'll be graduating in December. And that is why I've come to you asking for some advice. Read More

My guess about Voinovich

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Thursday May 26, 2005 · 2:05 PM PDT

2005/05/26 · 14:05

Everyone around here is having a fun time being hard on George Voinovich. After his teareful preformance on the Senate floor, there were many who mocked x as having "crocodile tears" in consideration of the fact he could have blocked Bolton in Committee.

Although Voinovich obviously doesnt support Bolton, I think he was hoping for something more. Read More

Report From Howard Dean Event in MD

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Tuesday May 17, 2005 · 6:54 PM PDT

2005/05/17 · 18:54

When Howard Dean ran for chair of the DNC, he said that he would not ignore the deep red states so that we could turn them blue nor would he ignore the blue states so that we wouldn't lose them in the future. As far as I'm concerned, Howard Dean kept his word tonight at least in regards to Maryland.Tonight he did to fundraisers for the state party, one for the big donors and one for the ordinary folks like us (my student ticket cost only $25!). Read More

Lakoff: Bring a Teddy Bear to a Gun Fight (Critique and Suggestions)

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Friday April 08, 2005 · 11:30 AM PDT

2005/04/08 · 11:30

First, I have to say that George Lakoff has done an excellent job of explaining to the progressive community how Republicans use language and framing to their advantage. Additionally, the strict-father model seems to be a pretty good represenation of the conservative mindset.

However, it occured to me while reading Lakoff's book a while ago that Lakoff's suggestions for how progressives should respond seemed both unwieldy and naive. These blog posts by Ezra Klein (here and here) put forth the same basic ideas far more articulately than my first impressions. (More below the jump)
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Why Does MSN/MSNBC Hate America?

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Thursday March 31, 2005 · 12:17 PM PST

2005/03/31 · 12:17

One of the headlines currently up on MSN.com is one that reads "Pannel Raps U.S. on WMDs." Um, last time I checked the entire country was no complicit in the botched handling of intelligence. The intelligence communinity did that and eventually the buck should stop at the President's desk, who after all is the chief executive. But no instead of saying, "Pannel raps Bush's CIA" or "Pannel raps Bush Administration" or even a tamer "Pannel slams US Intelligence Community," we get a headline that insults the entire coutry. Furthermore, the actual article with a headline of "Bush Pannel rips US Intelligence Abilities: President says he shares central conclusions" seems to imply its Bush who is the hero here, bravely going out and fixing the intelligence community. THe article does not discuss how the report does not discuss how the one-sided intelligence estimates most likely resulted from pressure from the top and not the bottom. Read More

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