Michael Klare, Avenging Planet
In his latest post, energy expert, TomDispatch regular, and author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, Michael T. Klare offers a stunning post-earthquake, post-tsunami, post-Fukushima vision of a...
View ArticleGOP as Classic Bullies
This will not be a long diary as I am working this morning...but I did not wanted to get other folks' response to my impression of the Paul Ryan response to President Obama's budget outline yesterday....
View ArticleBYAC: Books for Young Adults & Children - Quilting
When I started teaching reading to young children, it was like reverse engineering how to ride a bicycle. Reading is as natural for me as breathing. But many children struggle with learning to read....
View ArticleLiberal Arts and Self-Determination
The following is an email I wrote to my father that started as a brief thought and blew up into a short essay. He'd forwarded me a correspondence of his with the author of a recent WSJ Letter to the...
View ArticleHigh Impact Diaries: April 13, 2011
Welcome to ZebraProg (user_id 308560) who registered at 2011-04-14 04:43:29 EDT, the most recent of 91 in the preceding 24 hours. Yesterday 219 Kogs posted 249 diaries of which 235 were recommended at...
View ArticleAre soaring gas prices starting to hurt the recovery?
Unemployment claims rise last week for the first time in 3 weeks
View ArticleThe Practical Pup
Having a service animal means having gear. Sometimes lots of gear, sometimes not so much. Itzl, as a signal dog, technically doesn't need a lot of gear to do his job. But, as a Chihuahua who has to...
View ArticleCould the Palestinian Territories be the Next Egypt?
This diary is cross-posted at my commentary site. ___ Political fault lines in the Palestinian territories are shifting – altering the landscapes both on the streets and in the halls of government. At...
View ArticleNuclear safety must be first priority
On Tuesday, Japan raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to a seven, placing the meltdown at Fukushima on par with the disaster at Chernobyl. This tragedy holds both lessons and warnings for...
View ArticleA Price I'm Willing to Pay
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr said, "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." I grew up one of four boys in a working poor family. When I was 13 my father died and the government, through Social...
View ArticleMy issue with Obama's budget plan
Oh you knew there would be one. Inevitably, whatever Obama does, at least one member on Kos must complain. It's the unwritten rule of DKos. Unlike others, I will not discuss Obama's statements in...
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Death Valley National Park
Deep in the Mojave Desert on the boundary of California and Nevada lays the largest national park in the lower 48 states, Death Valley National Park. At 3.4 million acres it is a million acres larger...
View ArticleWhat Are YOU Doing To Help Obama Sell Higher Taxes On The Rich?
Cross posted at Conceptual Guerilla. Here is the simple question . . . and the simple answer. What should Obama do about closing the budget deficit? Yesterday, he actually came up with the answer ....
View ArticleAbout that Planned Parenthood "Win"
The Republicans didn't lose the Planned Parenthood battle - they simply moved it to states that have Republican governors and legislators. Legislators in my own little medieval state are now proposing...
View ArticleChina Bans Time Travel Movies And Many Others
From CNN: New guidelines issued on March 31 discourages plot lines that contain elements of "fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs, your daughter, and prison kickbacks
Imagine if this was how your daughter had to talk with you. The auto-operator starts its message “Will you accept a collect call from...” Mary's dad speaks quickly “Better be doing that homework....
View ArticleTaxation Education for that Conservative in your family
Yes, like many Kossacks, I suffer from having parents that wouldn't vote for Momma Grizzly herself if she switched over and had a (D) next to her name on the ballot. (not that that would ever happen,...
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A Revealing Stroll at the Michigan Americans for Prosperity’s Tax / Tea Party...
This is a brief stroll through this year’s annual Tax Day Rally called “Keep 'Em Honest” in Lansing April 14, 2011, organized and sponsored by Scott Hagerstrom, the Michigan Director of the...
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Video of Spent Fuel Pool sampling at Fukushima: ROV 49
This is another clearinghouse diary for discussion and commentary about the ongoing nuclear disaster(s) in Japan. For updated information on news and a timeline of the events following the March 11...
View ArticleA "golden plan" to get around the debt ceiling
According to unnamed sources at the Treasury Department the federal government is working on a novel plan to get around, at least temporarily, the looming battle to raise the debt ceiling. Apparently...
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