DK5 Alternate Look - Version 2
This is a less radical change than my first attempt and at least for me even easier on the eyes.Background has been changed to a light ecru and the font to Georgia. I upped the font size to 16px...
View ArticleOh FFS! This is a "credible threat?"
This isn’t much of a diary, but I’m just speechless… x Madbomber@cock.li was email address that apparently sent schools threat, per source— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) December 15, 2015 And for...
View ArticleA potential real problem in the Clinton emails.
I confess I’m deeply ambivalent about the whole Clinton emails/classified info story. On the one hand, I’ve long felt that we have a profound over-classification problem in this country and at least...
View ArticleICIG: Clinton emails contained special access program material.
UPDATE:See my new diary. It seems there’s once again a lot less to this story than initial reports indicate. The SAP material in question is references to our drone program. The emails discussed media...
View ArticleOK, The Clinton Email SAP Story is Total BS
I made the mistake yesterday of taking what appeared to be a serious story about Hillary Clinton’s email server containing Top Secret/Special Access Program information at face value. This is a short...
View ArticleRegime Change in Nicaragua is Now Democratic Policy, I Guess
I know politics ain’t beanball and all that shit, but watching Clinton and her supporters gleefully attack Sanders for having correctly opposed Reagan’s interventionist policy in Nicaragua and having...
View ArticleIndefinite Detention: What is Clinton's Position?
Secretary Clinton has criticized Senator Sanders for having voted for indefinite detention of immigrants. That certainly sounds alarming if true. So here's the bill she’s talking about:Community...
View ArticleDear President Obama: Why do you only nominate prosecutors?
This morning, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. I don’t doubt that Judge Garland is a good man and well qualified from the point of view of his legal experience and...
View ArticleNew Allegation Regarding Clinton Emails and Classified Info
First, a preemptive note. In his March 16 diary, Kos wrote:You can still criticize Clinton if you are trying to push her to the left or trying to make her a better candidate (and yes, that even...
View ArticleTo Sec. Clinton and supporters: Don't keep making John Kerry's mistake.
Back in early 2004, my recollection is sometime in February but certainly by March anyway, rumors about John Kerry having fabricated parts of his military service record began appearing in the sewers...
View ArticleOK, Now It's Time.
I disagreed strongly with Markos’ March 15 decree. I really don’t get what the huge hurry was. And I’ve grown increasingly dismayed, annoyed and disgusted with the counterproductive and fundamentally...
View ArticleA Counter-Argument on "Open" Primaries
A caveat to start: I’m not going to make the case for fully open primaries. That is, I don’t think registered Republicans ought to be able to vote in the Democratic primary or vice-versa. And I even...
View ArticleI really hate to defend Donald Trump...
But we’re supposed to be reality-based around here.BBB has a diary at the top of the wreck list that completely misunderstands the Trump campaign’s latest FEC filing. It’s understandable, because the...
View ArticleBreaking: Something serious going down in Turkey. Update: confirmed military...
Unclear what’s happening now. Reports that both bridges across the Bosphorus closed down by military. Troops on the streets of Ankara telling people to go home, there’s a curfew. Military aircraft...
View ArticleDid Trump Commit a Felony Today?
OK, I think this may be a bit of a stretch, but the lawyer in this Daily Beast article is a specialist in national security law and is no wild lefty. I’ve been following him on Twitter for a long time...
View ArticleAnd the Ratf***ing goes on...
xWhen you slowly realize the Hillary guy giving interviews at the Bernie rally is actually conservative James O'Keefe pic.twitter.com/VQKKjtGpdx— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) July 27, 2016
View ArticleIf I were to write...
“Wow. I realized Clinton types have novel views on pedophiles but I would have thought wife beating was pretty much universal evil. My bad.” then I’m pretty sure the banhammer would fall on me in...
View ArticleI Find Myself Partly Agreeing With Ryan Bundy
I don’t agree he’s not subject to US courts, but I’ll agree with him that he's an idiot:Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier Ryan Bundy filed a series of court motions late Thursday, declaring...
View ArticleDear Mr. Trump: Here's How You Do It
By contrast with Donald Trump’s despicable attacks on the Khan family, here’s what Hillary Clinton said this morning on Fox News Sunday when asked about what Pat Smith said about her during the...
View ArticleI Too Am American
I don’t really have a lot I can say here, except if you didn’t watch President Obama speak at the dedication of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History, you owe it to yourself to do so.I’m...
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