A new poll conducted by Scientists and Engineers for America indicates an overwhelming majority of voters prefer candidates who support research into science and technology, with emphasis on the three E's: education, environment, and energy. Nice to know, and in
From the MASSACHUSETTS-ANNEXED FRONTIER TERRITORY OF MAINE... The Declaration of Independence: Brittle Parchment of Liberty If you are going to sever ties to your Commonwealth through bloody struggle, it is considered polite to write down why. Nobody wants to get
Abbreviated July 4 edition. Happy holiday from Daily Kos, the home of American patriotism in the best sense of the word (now get out and do some field work). Eugene Robinson: Anyone who took U.S. history in high school ought
Samuel Johnson famously wrote in 1775 that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." In The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce made the appropriate correction: "With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that
Swing State Project has been gathering 2Q fundraising reports as they come out. Florida Governor Charlie Crist is engaged. For the fifth time. (He was married once, for 6 months.) Obviously it's not like this could have anything at all
In April, as they were being buried under a flood of some 310,000 new Democratic voter registrations in Pennsylvania, state Republican leaders promised a major effort to win back voters after the primary. But according to Pennsylvania Republican Committee Spokesman
You know your legal problems are bad, when you're spending more on your campaign manager's legal fees than he makes, and more than you're spending on campaign polling despite facing the two toughest challengers you've seen in nearly twenty years.
Gordon Smith has his story, and he's sticking to it, no matter that it's, well, a lie. A few weeks ago, I posted on Gordon Smith's deceptive ad, in which he tried to claim that he was just like Barack
Coming Up on Sunday Kos .... georgia10 will explore the new face of activism and what it looks like for the millennial generation. DemFromCT will review recent polling on health care as it relates to the 2008 campaign, and the
Several people are recovering this Fourth of July, the day after being injured when fireworks shells fell into a crowd in Monticello, Ill., authorities said.
President George Bush was interrupted by protesters on a July 4 visit to what he called the first Western White House -- Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia.
One man was shot dead and three others wounded in separate incidents as a crowd of more than 1 million people dispersed following Chicago's July 4 fireworks.
As they look to the fall election, Democrats face a strategic decision that has bedeviled their party for 40 years: How hard should they fight in the South?
Somali pirates who have taken over a German dry cargo vessel have threatened to kill the crew unless they receive a ransom for the sailors' release, a Ukrainian TV channel reported Friday.
