MN House just voted in favor of gay marriage

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Thursday May 09, 2013 · 1:11 PM PDT

2013/05/09 · 13:11

Great news from the land of 10,000 lakes: the House just voted in favor of a bill legalizing gay marriage, 75-59. The bill moves to the senate on Monday, and the momentum is definitely in its favor. Just wanted to pass along the good news; it really has been an incredible few months for this movement.

No, today is not the day to talk about gun control.

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Friday December 14, 2012 · 11:37 AM PST

2012/12/14 · 11:37

Today is the day to talk about the children who will no longer be living their lives. About the parents whose entire worlds will be changed forever. And about a community that will be shattered for years to come.

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Thursday February 16, 2012 · 11:30 AM PST

2012/02/16 · 11:30

I just did an Operation Hilarity diary last night, but I figured Kos' two diaries on the subject today warrant another response.

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Operation hilarity

228 votes Vote Now!

Operation hilarity

Good idea

39 votes

Bad idea

160 votes

Don't care

18 votes

Unsure

11 votes

How stupid is Operation Hilarity? Let us count the ways...

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Wednesday February 15, 2012 · 8:00 PM PST

2012/02/15 · 20:00

Alright so as I'm writing this there are more and more diaries popping up against Operation Hilarity, but what the hell, what's one more? I'm intending this to be a concise but thorough list of reasons that Operation Hilarity is a bad idea... A very bad idea. Some are obvious and have been discussed in other diaries, but I thought an overall list could be useful...

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Friday May 27, 2011 · 1:29 PM PDT

2011/05/27 · 13:29

The theory has been around for a while: Medicare is in trouble. Not in the way that conservatives will have you believe... It's obviously not going bankrupt, it's not a giant ponzi scheme (or is that Social Security? Hard to keep up...) No, the problem is now with the Democrats. They're weak. They never win. Republicans are attacking Medicare, and they will just roll over like every other time.

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How safe is Medicare?

29 votes Vote Now!

How safe is Medicare?

Totally safe

7 votes

Probably mostly in a basic sense safe

5 votes

Safe

4 votes

Not really safe in the strictest sense but kind of safe

6 votes

Like maybe a little safe but not really all that much

3 votes

Who has two thumbs and is wrong about Medicare being safe? This guy!

2 votes

The word safe has a lot of different meanings now that I am thinking about it

2 votes

How progressives can start winning the message wars

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Thursday May 26, 2011 · 7:58 AM PDT

2011/05/26 · 07:58

That's a misleading title; it implies that I've got some kind of solution in here. I don't. But I think that we can all agree: If all people saw the true nature of progressivism, it would be far more popular. If people could look beyond a couple bogeyman type issues (Taxes! Big Government! Socialism!) and see what progressivism was truly about (gee, I don’t know, maybe general societal progress, as if that is an evil concept) they would see that it is nothing to be feared. Getting more Americans to go along with basic progressive principles would be an undeniable benefit: Yes, corporate greed and what not are still factors in American politics, but votes are votes.

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Wednesday May 25, 2011 · 8:09 AM PDT

2011/05/25 · 08:09

... or at least putting some cracks in it.

I’ve been reading Daily Kos for years for a few simple reasons: It has never been any kind of perfect journalistic enterprise (it does have a slight liberal bias…) but it reports on important stories in a mostly good way. Sometimes there is a little bullshit to sift through, but in the end it is great at what it does: Getting information out to progressives. A center that progressives can organize around. A place for healthy debate. That last point is why I, about four years after I signed up, actually started commenting here: It’s fun to debate people. I started getting tired of the extreme negativity around here, particularly surrounding Obama, so I decided to wade in to the comments and see if I couldn’t engage in some good old back and forth. And I’ve been very happy so far with what I’ve encountered; a lot of these conversations have been just what good conversation should be: You bounce back and forth on the issues until you get to the key difference: the key root of the disagreement. I debated a fellow about Obama's foreign policy and eventually found that he considers FDR a war criminal. Different strokes, I guess... But that was the point. No shit he doesn't like Obama's foreign policy if he didn't like FDR's. It's a valid viewpoint, but not one I'm, or even most progressives, are inclined to agree with. But this diary will focus on domestic policy. I find that one of the main reasons that many progressives are so mad at Obama in these areas is actually not really due to “action” but “strategy”… Namely, they want Obama to use a concept that was originally a Republican strategy and talking point: the Overton Window.

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Saturday April 16, 2011 · 3:25 PM PDT

2011/04/16 · 15:25

Yesterday, I wrote my first diary here, “A passionate, progressive defense of Barack Obama.” If the title doesn’t give it away, it was my take on what I believe to be a truly progressive Obama administration. It definitely can be pretty apologetic, but I stand by the points I made. One of these points, a very big one for me, and one that should be repeated much more often on this site, is this: The 09-10 legislative session produced more PROGRESSIVE MOVING legislation than any in the past 40 years. More than the four congresses working with Bill Clinton. More than the two with Jimmy Carter. This diary will try to explain that phrase, “progressive movement,” its history in the last century, and how it all relates to Barack Obama.

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Friday April 15, 2011 · 9:52 AM PDT

2011/04/15 · 09:52

So, based on the title, this might sound like it’s about to be the most apologetic, wishy-washy and ass-kissing defense of President Obama you’ve ever heard. And, besides press releases from the Obama campaign, it just might be. But these are the conclusions that I have come to, and I base them on years of information gotten here, as well as TPM, Huffington Post, and even, shock, sometimes Red State or NRO. And the conclusion I’ve come to is this: Barack Obama is, a) governing exactly the way he said he would on the campaign trail and b) the best hope for progressive politics in quite some time.

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