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  • Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: ACA signups, and Chris Christie is still toast

    12 March 2014, 7:30 am

    Jonathan Cohn:…
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  • Open thread for night owls: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Condoleeza Rice's short memory about Iraq

    11 March 2014, 11:30 pm

    At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on Condoleeza Rice with As Though Iraq Never Happened:I don't really understand how any editorial by Condoleezza Rice on conflict in Ukraine can fail to directly address the failures of the Iraq War. But here is Rice…
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  • Daily Kos Elections FL-13 special election liveblog thread #1

    11 March 2014, 6:00 pm

    Polls close at 7:00 PM ET in Florida's 13th Congressional District, located in Pinellas County (home of St. Petersburg). Democratic nominee and former state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is facing Republican lobbyist David Jolly in the special election to…
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  • Cartoon: Stuff I wish I could say

    11 March 2014, 5:50 pm

    The Round Table needs you!!
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  • Funny Obama interview on 'Between Two Ferns' makes some conservatives want to die

    11 March 2014, 5:15 pm

    First of all, if you haven't seen the hilarious "Between Two Ferns" video from Funny or Die of Zach Galifianakis interviewing President Obama, stop everything and do it now. It's that good.…
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  • White House: 4.2 million signed up for Obamacare through February

    11 March 2014, 4:38 pm

    With open enrollment for Obamacare ending March 31, the administration has announced that it's much closer to its goal of 6 million enrollees. A healthy chunk of the 4.2 million applicants are aged 18-35.About 940,000 people selected Obamacare insurance plans…
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  • John McCain doesn't believe he has the lowest approval rating in the country: 'They like me'

    11 March 2014, 4:29 pm

    These aren't the polls you're looking for. Move along.…
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  • Christie used Port Authority to turn 9/11 wreckage into political gifts

    11 March 2014, 3:40 pm

    Just when you thought the list of things New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is now associated with couldn't get worse, it gets worse:For a state that lost hundreds of lives on Sept. 11, the gifts were emotionally resonant: pieces of steel from the ruins of the…
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  • Midday open thread

    11 March 2014, 3:00 pm

    Today's comic by Jen Sorensen is Spectacle Semiotics:…
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  • More on conservative whiners ...

    11 March 2014, 2:37 pm

    Larry Duncan and Randy Shepherd getting married in Washington, which is awesome whether you approve or not.…
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  • Poll: Christie approval rating at all-time low in New Jersey

    11 March 2014, 2:30 pm

    For this first time since taking office, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has a net negative approval rating in the Farleigh Dickinson University PublicMind Poll, with just 41 percent of New Jersey adults saying they approve of his job performance while 44…
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  • Vermont likely to raise its minimum wage, but sick leave is another story

    11 March 2014, 2:20 pm

    Do you want sneeze with that?…
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  • Mike Huckabee woos the womenfolks

    11 March 2014, 2:01 pm

    Mike Huckabee: Always a hit with the ladies.…
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  • Curtailing women's rights, Missouri edition

    11 March 2014, 1:48 pm

    Why yes, he used to be a pharmacist. Why do you ask?…
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  • Florida 13th Congressional District special election preview and predictions thread

    11 March 2014, 12:55 pm

    St. Petersburg, FL—the site of today's special election…
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  • Conservative bigots whine about being social pariahs

    11 March 2014, 12:20 pm

    A majority approves.…
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  • CNN poll: Obamacare support edging up

    11 March 2014, 12:15 pm

    Obamacare kicked in ten weeks ago, and the sky hasn't fallen in. Despite some serious hiccups along the way, the law is pretty much working as it was intended without causing a catastrophe. Now that people are getting more used to the idea, it's also gaining…
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  • Should states be able to ban birth control? North Carolina voters say no, GOP candidates disagree

    11 March 2014, 12:15 pm

    U.S. Senate candidate and state House Speaker Thom Tillis won't say if he thinks North Carolina should ban contraceptives.…
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  • Koch brothers' Obamacare 'victim' will save $1,200 a year but insists that 'can't be true'

    11 March 2014, 11:15 am

    The Julie Boonstra saga continues. Boonstra is the star of the most deceptive of the Koch brothers' anti-Obamacare "horror stories," and the one that has had to be debunked the most times. Here's one more, from The Detroit News, and it turns out she's saving…
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  • Noted hiker-congressman says government didn't shut down during government shutdown

    11 March 2014, 11:05 am

    "And I wasn't really hiking on the Appalachian Trail either."…
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  • Stephen Colbert's hilarious bit on Kentucky church giving away guns

    11 March 2014, 10:45 am

    Last night, Stephen Colbert mocked the efforts of a Kentucky church giving away guns to lure people back to church in a segment that's sure to offend the NRA crowd.…
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  • After CPAC flop, now Mitch McConnell won't even say if he owns a gun

    11 March 2014, 10:30 am

    Maybe Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should stop trying to brag about how big his gun is. Consider our first piece of evidence, his Dukakis-in-a-tank moment while holding a rifle over his head at CPAC last week:…
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  • Feinstein shocked intelligence agency can't be trusted

    11 March 2014, 10:29 am

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein is furious that the Central Intelligence Agency spied on her committee, searching the panel's computers while the committee was investigating and preparing its report on torture in the CIA's detention and interrogation program during the…
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  • Democrats will try to force House vote on unemployment aid

    11 March 2014, 9:56 am

    House Speaker John Boehner is standing in the way.…
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  • Cartoon: Spectacle semiotics

    11 March 2014, 9:50 am

    (Click to enlarge) According to the NYT, the monocle is in fact making a comeback of sorts. Get a signed print of this cartoon from the artist. Follow Jen on Facebook and Twitter
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  • President Obama exposed to disgusting rash on 'Between Two Ferns'

    11 March 2014, 9:24 am

    Things you just can't make up ...
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  • Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9am ET!

    11 March 2014, 8:30 am

    Daily Kos Radio's Kagro in the Morning show podcasts are now available through iTunes.…
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  • Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

    11 March 2014, 8:18 am

    From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… It Wasn't Just A Dream? Oh my god…it's really happening. In 47 days: I hope he says "bollocks" a lot. Great word, bollocks. Bollocks! Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
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  • Economics Daily Digest: What is the GDP of the internet?

    11 March 2014, 8:07 am

    By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal…
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  • Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Today's Florida special election is too close to call

    11 March 2014, 8:00 am

    Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.…
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