The Magis - or a Lesson from Hilary Clinton in How to Talk to People of Faith...
Something important happened yesterday at the Al Smith dinner that should not be lost among all the schadenfreude of watching Trump get booed by the New York elite. At the end of Hilary Clinton’s...
View ArticleUnited Nations Week October 20-24th United Nations Day Monday-October 24th
THE WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE; WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE, OVERCOMES, THE LOVE OF POWER!The Untied Nations / fb What is the United Nations?UNICEF Children's Rights And Emergency Relief OrganizationUnited...
View ArticleStand with the Standing Rock Sioux: Call the White House today!
Campaign ActionThe Redford Center has a short message for you. Here’s the full transcript:All Americans deserve the right to clean water and in North Dakota, a brave group of Americans are fighting to...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (alas, unable to post a "Who Lost?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View Article'I waited 96 years!' is the greatest website about women's right to vote ever
The women featured on iwaited96years.com all have two things in common: they were all born before August 18, 1920, the date that the last state ratified the 19th Amendment that ensured a woman’s right...
View ArticleFracking Facts-on-the-Ground in Western Maryland, and the Rest of the State
Dear Senate President Miller, House Speaker Busch, Committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs, and Members of the House Environment and Transportation Committee, and other distinguished members of the...
View ArticlePolice from 5 states escalate violence, shoot horses to clear 1851 treaty camp
A prayer circle of elders, including several women, was interrupted and all were arrested for standing peacefully on the public road. A tipi was erected in the road and was recklessly dismantled,...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with the return of the "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleA Woman's Place Is; Very Long List W/Photos Democratic Women, Will Win...
ANDA Woman’s Place Is; Anywhere, We, Want, To Be!Nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 Election.9 years First Lady of Arkansas She led a task force whose recommendations helped reform...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is This Election's Agent of Change
Hillary Clinton is the agent of change in this election. The media narrative about “change” elections like this one is that the Presidency switches parties because the voters want to go in a new...
View Article#ImWithHer #StrongerTogether - Live Blog 11-01-16 - Late Edition.
Evening Live Blog — A Place for All to Come Together and Discuss the Day’s Events!Supporting the Democratic Nominee for PresidentHillary Clinton.
View ArticleVT-Gov: President Obama Makes The Case For Sue Minter (D) In New Ad
Liking this: x YouTube VideoToday, Sue Minter for Vermont released a new television ad featuring President Barack Obama.In the ad which aired Monday, President Obama specifically highlighted Minter’s...
View ArticleOpen thread for night owls: Mace and rubber bullets used again on water...
As pictured in the tweet below, praying water protectors were Maced and fired upon with rubber bullets today at the site of the North Dakota protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. They had sought...
View Article#ImWithHer #StrongerTogether - Live Blog 11-03-16 - Late Edition.
Evening Live Blog — A Place for All to Come Together and Discuss the Day’s Events!Supporting the Democratic Nominee for PresidentHillary Clinton.
View ArticleTop Comments: the Conservative Empathy edition
A look at our friends across-the-aisle … who move from abstraction to action when things-get-real, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily...
View ArticleI stopped worrying today
Almost. The anxiety won’t entirely go away till they call this freaking nightmare of an election, the likes of which I’ve never seen before.I’ve followed politics for a long, long time, as in one of my...
View ArticlePollster.com just moved election for Pres and Senate strongly out of GOP...
Ok, here is the latest Pollster.com topline. They are incredibly bullish on Hillary winning the presidency as of just a minute ago, also on the Senate switching hands:Trump is dropping like a rock....
View ArticleAs if you needed more motivation for GOTV ...
Seriously, let’s make that happen. Add your name: I am ready to make phone calls from home with MoveOn to defeat Donald Trump and the Republican Senate Majority.And remember, if you can early vote and...
View ArticleI Believe We Owe Them Something
Since October or 1781, possibly even July of 1776 or earlier, America, later the United States of America, has been more than a nation-state. It has been a powerful symbol.Billions of people, in places...
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