Stacy Feldman at SolveClimate writes: Millions of people worldwide are pressing their governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions ahead of next month's Copenhagen climate talks, and the volume of protests has increased as world leaders downplay the significance of securing

This evening's Rescue Rangers are watercarrier4diogenes, blank frank, HoosierDeb, mem from somerville, YatPundit and shayera with shayera editing. First-time diarist Liberal Lass has a touching story of how Daily Kos saved her Thanksgiving Day in . Your Rescue Ranger has

the official start of the holiday* shopping season. Personally, I'd rank getting up at the crack of dawn to fight over sales items right up there with getting up at the crack of dawn to sit in a deer stand

Agree, disagree, or do you have your own top five (or ten, or twenty, or ...)? Number Five: Paul Ryan Draws Line On Graph Back in the Spring, when Democrats were putting together the federal budget, House Budget Committee ranking

From my inbox Friday morning: It's sort of amusing: despite all his crazy bluster, Glenn Beck, at the heart of it all, is just a carnival salesman, and his product is his own hot air. He may be one of

The Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has often complained that too many people saw her as Pocahontas with a guitar. She's anything but. Her career, which began in the early 1960s at beatnik coffeehouses in Canada and the United States,

What's coming up on Sunday Kos .... Devilstower will demand that all potential Democratic candidates must meet his 10-point test of purity before they can place a holy donkey next to their names. With the recent drama in the New

for Daily Kos. 11/22/2009-11/25/2009. All adults. MoE 2% (Last weeks results in parentheses): FAVORABLEUNFAVORABLENET CHANGEPRESIDENT OBAMA53 (55)40 (39)-3PELOSI:41 (40)51 (51)+1REID:31 (32)59 (58)-2McCONNELL:15 (14)68 (68)+1BOEHNER:13 (13)66 (65)-1CONGRESSIONAL DEMS:41 (42)54 (53)-2CONGRESSIONAL GOPS:14 (13)70 (71)+2 DEMOCRATIC PARTY:43 (44)52 (50)-3REPUBLICAN PARTY:24 (23)66 (67)+2 Full

Now that it's 2009 and Barack Obama is president, Republicans that they believe voting against a filibuster is the same thing as voting for the bill. They are, of course, . Think back to what happened in 2003, the last

Markos joined Jack Rice on The Ed Show Wednesday afternoon to talk about the importance of avoiding the Afghanistan trap that so many others have fallen into, including the former Soviet Union. Here's video: Transcript: SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE

It's Black Friday -- have you been out ? The day after Thanksgiving is known for shopping sprees, but "Black Friday" is getting blacklisted by environmentalists - and they're hoping President Obama will back them up. "In the climate change

I'm not going all-in for the message of this Mayors Against Illegal Guns thing. But I'm struck by what I'll call the "Hypocrisy Gap" instead. I don't want to take up too much of your post-holiday time with this, but

Massive Democratic gains in 2006 and 2008 were fueled in part by Democratic advantages in committee fundraising. While Bush's RNC handily outraised its Democratic counterparts at the DNC, both the Democratic House and Senate committees crushed their Republican counterparts. Not

As we learned earlier , the Republican Party, in what can only be described as a wholesale capitulation of their party to the teabaggers, circulated a proposal that would create a 10-point "purity test" for prospective candidates. The purity test

Glenn Thrush, Michele Bachmann a wish: Q: A lot has been made of some of your statements — the "gangster government" comment, the "anti-American" comment. Is there anything you've said that you regret? A: Oh, gosh, absolutely. Of course, I

Associated Press - November 27, 2009 7:25 PM ET McKINNEY, Texas (AP) - North Texas authorities are looking for a wildcat and want the public's help.

Associated Press - November 27, 2009 10:25 AM ET DALLAS (AP) - Authorities say a man who led police on a long chase was fatally shot after his pickup truck slammed into a tree and he pulled out...

Associated Press - November 27, 2009 9:55 AM ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts are back on Earth.

St. Paul police have identified a15-year-old who was shot to death on Thanksgiving as Darion Joseph Smith. Two suspects are in custody.

A state trooper narrowly escaped injuryas he was enforcing a statewide crackdown on drunken drivers thatled to more that 30 arrests.