Small Businesses Need a Robust Public Option
This morning, over at the NYT, an article appeared entitled, “Small Business Faces Sharp Rise in Costs of Health Care” http://www.nytimes.com/...According to the article, small businesses are facing...
View ArticleResearching at the National Archives
First of all, I have been busy and very remiss in participating at Daily Kos. I was thrilled to see the new face of KOS and particularly excited to see the genealogy section - a big thanks for this....
View ArticleMatt Taibbi on the fabulous paper shredder at the SEC
Today Matt Taibbi has written another exposé of our financial system; this time the SEC is in the spotlight. Apparently the SEC has been shredding investigative notes for years now. Taibbi's central...
View ArticleLegitimate Small Business Owners Woefully Uninformed
Andrew Weinstein has put together a great read over at Mother Jones covering wealthy US corporations passing as small businesses. I have long suspected this to be the case, and this article seems to...
View ArticleLet Us Listen to Our Slavic Brother
I live in an area that I warmly refer to as Slav-land, basically Southeastern Europe, less basically the Western Balkans, explicitly Serbia. This morning due to an internet outage I was forced to...
View ArticleVlada and the Romantika Train Tour
My son was about 14. My mother was visiting us in Serbia and very eager to take trips and do exotic things that she could not do in the USA. So my partner - ok, it is heterosexual, but I have grown...
View ArticleLooking for an Independent Bookstore on East Coast Willing to Ship Bulk...
First, I hope this is not an inappropriate diary since I am looking to purchase something. However, we have been annually ordering a few hundred books from the dreaded Amazon for several years now. I...
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The Grieving Room: Remembering Zorica
Strahinja called last week to tell me that his mother, Zorica, had died. Zorica, moja Zorica, it has been so many years. It is hard for me to believe that you are gone…It was 1999, and we had just...
View ArticleWomen for Bernie: We Are Not Bros – We Are Women Standing Strong for Sanders
So Thursday night I was out to dinner with a friend and business partner. The gentleman is educated and his background is fascinating, so conversation is always lively. We had already discussed Adam...
View ArticleWe Won't Be Voting for Hillary Because We Won't Have to...
That’s right. Hillary will not be on the November ballot, and I will certainly not be writing her in. I have full faith and confidence that 47 states later, Bernie will be our nominee. I thought...
View ArticleOklahoma County Democratic Primary Voters Be Alert
This is quick, not even a diary, but to get word out. I was voting my absentee ballot this morning and saw that the Oklahoma County Democratic Primary Ballot also included 2 county court clerk...
View ArticleBLM Events in Oklahoma City this Weekend
I have not seen anything on this and was not aware of this until my son brought it to my attention. Black Lives Matter has scheduled two events this weekend:Two "Black Lives Matter" rallies are...
View ArticleBernie Sanders on Democracy Now Interview
Today Bernie and Amy Goodman sat down together for a chat. This was a good discussion that put forth a lot of ideas about the way forward. I was hesitant to post this diary because there is so much...
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These Revolutionary Times: May Day Edition
Welcome to the May Day edition of These Revolutionary Times, a project of The Political Revolution, a Daily Kos group. Each Sunday, we focus on a small selection of papers, articles, and essays...
View ArticleDon't Take that Bulgarian Train, My Friends
Lately I have seen quite a few passionate diaries about candidates and supporting our candidates during the primaries and candidates that we do not want to support and so on and so forth. Then these...
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