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Daily Kos

This week in science: stardust & moondreams - 1 hr 7 mins ago

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Komen's bad news, Obama's good news - 1 hr 52 mins ago

Open Thread for Night Owls: On-the-job hazards—IEDS, snipers and now the residue of toxins - 10 hrs 37 mins ago

Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Mitt Romney odds-on favorite in Nevada. How about nationally? - 13 hrs 37 mins ago

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! - 14 hrs 37 mins ago

Komen Foundation's rightward strategy assisted by ... Ari Fleischer? - 15 hrs 7 mins ago

In Komen Foundation debacle, conservatives see themselves as victims - 15 hrs 37 mins ago

Resistance to Komen's assault on Planned Parenthood reminds us of our strengths and weaknesses - 15 hrs 53 mins ago

God-Man, in 'copyright or copywrong' - 16 hrs 17 mins ago

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker lawyers up before meeting with prosecutors - 16 hrs 47 mins ago

Senate GOP debates whether it should bother having a governing agenda - 18 hrs ago

Planned Parenthood receives $100,000 matching pledge from Lance Armstrong, LIVESTRONG - 18 hrs 37 mins ago

Senate Republicans announce intention to join court challenge of recess appointments - 18 hrs 42 mins ago

Unions use Super Bowl to raise awareness in Indiana - 18 hrs 44 mins ago

Midday open thread - 19 hrs 7 mins ago

Think Progress

Drought May Cause Shutdown of Texas Rice Production - 1 min ago

Arizona GOP Lawmaker Wants A State Holiday To Celebrate White People - 1 hr 52 mins ago

Open Thread Plus Classic Toles Climate Cartoon - 2 hrs 18 mins ago

Super Bowl Predictions Open Thread - 15 hrs 31 mins ago

Correction: Susan G. Komen Foundation Says Pink Gun Is An Unsanctioned ‘Rogue Scheme’ - 16 hrs 26 mins ago

Rep. Pompeo (R-Koch) Defends ‘Vilified’ Koch Brothers From ‘Nixonian’ Obama - 16 hrs 33 mins ago

New York Times Forgets About Marriage Equality Law - 16 hrs 37 mins ago

Hollywood’s Fairy Tale Craze Meets Hollywood’s Superhero Craze, Plus 9/11 - 16 hrs 46 mins ago

Obama’s Policies Help Secure Jobs For Veterans - 16 hrs 49 mins ago

ANALYSIS: Obama Reproductive Health Reg Mirrors State Conscience Protections - 16 hrs 56 mins ago

Unemployment Rate For Men And Women Is Equal For The First Time Since 2007 - 16 hrs 57 mins ago

Uganda To Discuss ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill Next Week - 17 hrs ago

EXCLUSIVE: Ari Fleischer Secretly Involved In Komen Strategy On Planned Parenthood - 17 hrs 11 mins ago

Applying A Windfall Tax To Fracking Would Give Ohio $2.5 billion over ten years - 17 hrs 45 mins ago

Will The Huffington Post Streaming News Channel Be Progressive? - 18 hrs ago

Glenn Greenwald (Salon)

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality - 18 hrs 27 mins ago

The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot - 1 day 10 hrs ago

What's behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests? - 2 days 19 hrs ago

What media coverage omits about U.S. hikers released by Iran - 4 days 14 hrs ago

Question about America's enemies - 5 days 14 hrs ago

U.S. not "standing idly by" in Bahrain - 7 days 16 hrs ago

Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology - 8 days 18 hrs ago

Jose Padilla and how American justice functions - 10 days 17 hrs ago

U.S. to build new massive prison in Bagram - 11 days 9 hrs ago

The Geithner mystery solved - 11 days 18 hrs ago

The mainstreaming of Walt and Mearsheimer - 12 days 18 hrs ago

Major discovery: a purpose of the war in Afghanistan - 14 days 18 hrs ago

The perils of partisan punditry in the Obama age - 15 days 16 hrs ago

The meaning of political rituals like 9/11 Day - 17 days 8 hrs ago

How a normal, healthy government behaves - 17 days 16 hrs ago

Huffington Post - The Blog

Dr. Jonathan D. Quick: Closing the Global Cancer Divide: Together It Is Possible - 7 mins ago

Shiv Singh: Super Bowl Marketing Playbooks -- Which Will Deliver the Win? - 11 mins ago

Ed Stump: Going Swimming In Antarctica By Accident And On Purpose (PHOTOS) - 42 mins ago

BootsnAll: 9 European Attractions To Miss (PHOTOS) - 47 mins ago

Al Gore: Antarctic Glaciers and the Global Water Crisis - 58 mins ago

Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? A Preliminary Example - 1 hr 6 mins ago

Martin Long: Evangelicals' Lock on the GOP Cracks - 1 hr 6 mins ago

Christopher P. Scheitle: A Road Trip Across America's Religious Landscape (PHOTOS) - 1 hr 23 mins ago

Carolyn Bucior: Fur Will Fly at First Scientific Conference on Animal Consciousness - 1 hr 25 mins ago

Muqtedar Khan: Mawlid: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate - 1 hr 30 mins ago

Charles Ferguson: Let Them Eat Task Forces - 1 hr 37 mins ago

Suzanne O'Malley: Day Four: Super Bowl 2012 -- Giants? Patriots? Winner's Fans May Get Heart Attack Protection. Seriously. - 1 hr 43 mins ago

Karin Kasdin: Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice - 1 hr 55 mins ago

Mike Kravinsky: Mike Kravinksy's 'The Nextnik' Episode 3 (WATCH) - 2 hrs 13 mins ago

Laura Prudom: Supernatural Recap: Dean Meets His Daughter In 'The Slice Girls' - 7 hrs 53 mins ago

Crooks and Liars

What Cancer Is, and What It's Not - 37 mins ago

Mike's Blog Round Up - 2 hrs 7 mins ago

Open Thread - 10 hrs 37 mins ago

C&L's Late Night Music Club with Obadiah Parker - 11 hrs 7 mins ago

Lizz Winstead: If You Don't Support Health Care for Women, How Can You Call Yourself Pro-Life - 12 hrs 4 mins ago

The Great Task Force and Settlement Debate - 13 hrs 7 mins ago

Was Komen's Nancy Brinker Lying Yesterday Or Is She Lying Today? - 14 hrs 7 mins ago

Average Corporate Tax Rate Falls to 12%, Lowest in Decades - 15 hrs 7 mins ago

FBI Anti-Anonymous Conference Call Hacked by Anonymous - 16 hrs 6 mins ago

Orrin Hatch to Obama: Don't Tout Christianity for Public Policy - That's My Thing! - 17 hrs 7 mins ago

AmericaBlog

"Welcome to Cancerland" — or What does Komen do with all that money? - 1 hr 2 mins ago

Video: Donkey either really likes or really hates the violin - 10 hrs 32 mins ago

Malaria much deadlier than previously thought - 12 hrs 47 mins ago

NY Times study: SEC soft on Wall Street crime - 14 hrs 37 mins ago

How hard-right Movement Conservatives use "the fog" to confuse their opposition - 16 hrs 17 mins ago

Komen statement on Planned Parenthood is a PR move, not a policy reversal - 18 hrs 20 mins ago

Why does the right imagine war with Iran would be popular? - 19 hrs 39 mins ago

Unitus credit union sends letter to members blaming Dodd-Frank for benefits cuts - 21 hrs 8 mins ago

Komen caves, kinda, but still refusing to approve Planned Parenthood’s funding next year - 22 hrs ago

Facebook's Zuckerberg may never pay taxes again - 22 hrs 32 mins ago

Unemployment down, payrolls up - 23 hrs 28 mins ago

What will progressives do about apparent right-wing "fog shops" like Komen? - 1 day ago

Komen changes story 180 degrees on why they defunded Planned Parenthood - 1 day 2 hrs ago

NYT obliterates Komen Race for the Cure over Planned Parenthood stab in the back - 1 day 10 hrs ago

How to destroy a million dollar brand in 24 hours - 1 day 11 hrs ago

Talking Points Memo

You're Fired - 30 mins ago

Newt Testament - 32 mins ago

Picture of the Day - 16 hrs 25 mins ago

Know Your Base - 17 hrs 19 mins ago

Here's What To Watch - 18 hrs 55 mins ago

Bringing Out The Big Gun - 19 hrs 1 min ago

Chart of the Day - 21 hrs 27 mins ago

8.3% - 23 hrs 3 mins ago

Weakest Speaker Of The Modern Era? - 1 day ago

Relive The Tension - 1 day 15 hrs ago

Romney on Trump Endorsement: This is Awesome - 1 day 18 hrs ago

Presented By: - 1 day 18 hrs ago

The Virginia Problem - 1 day 20 hrs ago

Insert 'Trump' Pun Here - 1 day 20 hrs ago

Jobs For Bombs? - 1 day 21 hrs ago

Wonkette

NRO Will Now Explain to Stupid Liberals How Private Charity Works - 15 hrs 24 mins ago

Orrin Hatch Tells Obama He Can’t Be Like Jesus, Because Of Taxes (VIDEO) - 17 hrs 42 mins ago

What Would Jesus Do, If He Was a Tea Party Wingnut ‘Christian’? - 18 hrs 51 mins ago

Komen Charity Reverses Weird New Pro-Breast Cancer For Poors Policy - 20 hrs 43 mins ago

Gingrich Wants Florida Primary Rules Changed, Now That He Lost - 22 hrs 7 mins ago

12 Things Gifzette Will Miss About the 2012 GOP Primary - 22 hrs 51 mins ago

Donald Trump Now Planning To Bury People In His Tacky Golf Course - 1 day 11 hrs ago

MyDD

Romney's Sunshine State "Lead" - 3 days 16 hrs ago

Occupy DC Protester Tased & Overnight Camping Ban - 4 days ago

Congressmen Battle Over Koch Brothers Keystone Pipeline - 4 days 16 hrs ago

Everyone hates Citizens United ruling - 7 days 15 hrs ago

Looking at Romney’s Voting Coalition - 10 days 4 hrs ago

SFF'12 Panel: How Independent Docs are Changing Change - 10 days 16 hrs ago

Gingrich and Romney Offer the Same Tired Energy Policies - 11 days 19 hrs ago

Meet Mansimran - 14 days 16 hrs ago

Unchecked Corporate Power Threatening Right To Sue And The Very Bones Of The Internet - 19 days 12 hrs ago

Executive Order on Corporate Spending Disclosure Coming? - 23 days 19 hrs ago

API’s Next Sham Campaign - 29 days 19 hrs ago

Promises, Promises: President Obama’s NDAA Signing Statement - 30 days 17 hrs ago

Pollster New Year - 34 days 16 hrs ago

Vote Against Obama in Iowa - 36 days 23 hrs ago

Going Green: 12 Simple Steps for 2012 - 37 days 18 hrs ago

Firedoglake

Come Saturday Morning: Rachel Paulose’s Enabler, Mary Kiffmeyer, Pushing ALEC’s Vote-Suppression Bill Once Again - 22 mins ago

Pull Up a Chair - 2 hrs 2 mins ago

Late Late Night FDL: Bear on Patrol (Outnumbered) - 9 hrs 2 mins ago

Late Night FDL: Scott Walker Prepares to Make a Social Call - 11 hrs 2 mins ago

A Matter Of Perspective - 13 hrs 1 min ago

Republicans Want to Avoid Defense Trigger By Firing Other Federal Employees - 13 hrs 57 mins ago

Protesting the NDAA: Actions Held All Over the Country Today - 14 hrs 52 mins ago

Asset Tests, Layoffs and the Race to Give Away Tax Dollars to Big Oil - 15 hrs 47 mins ago

San Onofre: One Leaks, the Other Doesn’t… Yet - 16 hrs 34 mins ago

Military/Law Enforcement Contractor Brought in to Train Police for NATO-G8 Protests - 17 hrs 25 mins ago

Eschaton (Atrios)

Conscience - 10 mins ago

Laws Are For Other People - 2 hrs 6 mins ago

Good Morning - 5 hrs 25 mins ago

Late Night Thread - 10 hrs 50 mins ago

Friday Cat Thread - 13 hrs 14 mins ago

Heckuva Job - 14 hrs 56 mins ago

Urban Elites - 15 hrs 43 mins ago

Happy Hour Thread - 17 hrs 3 mins ago

Gangsta - 18 hrs 38 mins ago

Down The Memory Hole - 19 hrs 44 mins ago

Unclear To Me Too - 20 hrs 21 mins ago

Heckuva Job - 21 hrs 25 mins ago

Everybody Drives - 21 hrs 38 mins ago

No One Should Ever Trust Them Again - 21 hrs 59 mins ago

Skin In The Game - 22 hrs 30 mins ago

Political Animal (Washington Monthly)

Wednesday's Mini-Report - 352 days 16 hrs ago

The need for partisan cover - 352 days 17 hrs ago

House rebuffs Boehner, scraps F-35 Jet Engine Program - 352 days 18 hrs ago

Giving the GOP's 'So Be It' response a closer look - 352 days 18 hrs ago

A new standard for 'seriousness' - 352 days 19 hrs ago

Barbour fails an easy test - 352 days 20 hrs ago

Florida's Scott joins the anti-rail crusade - 352 days 21 hrs ago

Wednesday's campaign round-up - 352 days 22 hrs ago

Lieberman, Collins channel Giuliani's talking points - 352 days 22 hrs ago

Boehner thinks 'we're broke,' but can afford wasteful spending in Ohio - 352 days 23 hrs ago

GOP health care plans still unpopular - 353 days ago

The limits of being 'pro-family' - 353 days ago

Not all entitlements are created equal - 353 days 1 hr ago

Milbank goes there - 353 days 2 hrs ago

Tuesday's Mini-Report - 353 days 16 hrs ago

Hullabaloo (digby)

QOTD: blaming Mormons for opposition to same-sex marriage is racist - 13 hrs 3 mins ago

Super PACs are not created equal - 14 hrs 33 mins ago

Komen backs off, dishonestly by @DavidOAtkins - 16 hrs 12 mins ago

Tristero: A Real Republican - 17 hrs 33 mins ago

Nonprofit bubble: somebody forgot to tell the Komen foundation that there's an opposition - 18 hrs 18 mins ago

DIY activism contest: Freeway blogger! - 20 hrs 3 mins ago

Body parts and being human - 21 hrs 3 mins ago

The souls of Republican folk, part 2 by @DavidOAtkins - 23 hrs 33 mins ago

Rock Wisdom - 1 day 14 hrs ago

Could it be...real reforms? by @DavidOAtkins - 1 day 15 hrs ago

Nancy Brinker spins out - 1 day 17 hrs ago

"The argument that governments should engage in austerity appears to be collapsing" - 1 day 20 hrs ago

It's only OK if a State does it by @DavidOAtkins - 1 day 23 hrs ago

SWATTING Fratboys: police state goes to college - 2 days 7 hrs ago

RIP Wislawa SzymborskaBy tristeroThe world - 2 days 11 hrs ago

Yglesias (Think Progress)

Goodbye! - 77 days 16 hrs ago

You Can’t Abandon Electoral Politics - 77 days 17 hrs ago

Predicting Versus Modeling - 77 days 18 hrs ago

The Miracle Of The Elevator - 77 days 18 hrs ago

Deutsche Bank: ‘Dig A Hole In The Ground And Hide’ - 77 days 19 hrs ago

Carriage Fees And à La Carte - 77 days 20 hrs ago

Corporate Income Tax: Worry About Distortions, Not Investment - 77 days 21 hrs ago

€conomia, The Game Of Terrible Monetary Policy - 77 days 22 hrs ago

School Lunch And The Trouble With America - 77 days 23 hrs ago

Mario Draghi Doesn’t Realize That Europe Is Already Bearing ‘Huge Economic And Social Costs’ - 78 days ago

Hard-Working Italians vs Lazy Germans - 78 days ago

Breakfast Links: November 18, 2011 - 78 days 1 hr ago

Steve Jobs And The Indeterminacy Of Success - 78 days 15 hrs ago

Monetary Metaphors - 78 days 16 hrs ago

The Studying Gap - 78 days 17 hrs ago

pandagon

This was about values, not money - 17 hrs 42 mins ago

They Took The Road Less Traveled Hence, And Got These Dipwads - 1 day 1 hr ago

Music Fridays: Remembering “Soul Train” Edition - 1 day 1 hr ago

Why are conservatives so obsessed with sex? - 2 days 1 hr ago

Anti-choicers are modern day witch hunters - 3 days 1 hr ago

Twitter happenings - 3 days 15 hrs ago

Fundies ignoring that their god probably wouldn’t be too keen on Viagra - 4 days 1 hr ago

Someone make Charles Murray just choose already - 4 days 16 hrs ago

Don’t think they’re not looking to impeachment - 5 days ago

Music Fridays: The Long Slog Edition - 8 days ago

HotRants Below the Fold

Crooked Timber

Jesus' General

World Changing

Majikthise

rude pundit

Obsidian Wings

Sadly, No!

Alas, A Blog

Mahablog

Sunlight Foundation

American Street

TruthDig

FishBowl DC

Burnt Orange Report (TX)

The Reality-Based Community

James Wolcott

The Republic of T.

The Reaction

Cliff Schecter

the young turks

Grits for Breakfast

Blue Oregon (OR)

Wal-Mart Watch

Democracy Arsenal

Orcinus

Making Light

Oliver Willis

Gristmill

skippy the bush kangaroo

PressThink - Jay Rosen

Liberal Oasis

The Gavel (Speaker Pelosi's blog)

Slacktivist

The Side Show

Taylor Marsh

bart cop

Suburban Guerilla

WatchBlog

Scholars and Rogues

Marc Lynch (Foreign Policy)

PageOneQ

Swing State Project

No Quarter

Seeing the Forest

Blue NC (NC)

The Arabist

Anonymous Liberal

Democratic Daily

shakespearessister

Pam's House Blend (glbt)

Bitch Ph.D.

Agonist

Booman Tribune

Feministe

Salon's War Room

Washington Note

Down with tyranny

The Intersection (Discover Magazine)

TPM Cafe

BlogActive

War and Piece

Raising Kaine (VA)

Calitics (CA)

Rising Hegemon

CREDO Action