- The real menace of a ubiquitous surveillance state: It breeds conformity; it breeds a kind of obedient citizenry, on both a societal and an individual level. That's why tyrannies love surveillance, but it's also why surveillance literally erodes a huge part of what it means to be a free individual http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/why-privacy-power-of-mind-over-mind.html 4 comments germany
- The people who did that wanton killing will pay no price. But Bradley Manning will do many years in prison for revealing what they did. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/private-manning-gets-35-years.html 27 comments politics
- Digby on William F. Buckley: "Joe Scarborough skips the dirty parts" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/joe-scarborough-skips-dirty-parts.html 4 comments politics
- If the minimum wage had kept up with productivity growth over this period, it would now be $18.67 per hour http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/want-to-boost-power-of-wages-over.html 173 comments politics
- [NSA] What if the people running our secret programs are idiots? http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-if-people-running-our-secret.html? 18 comments politics
- "When the free press, explicitly protected in the bill of rights becomes equivalent to an "enemy of the United States" something very, very bad is happening." http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.br/2013/06/this-really-is-big-brother-leak-nobodys.html 370 comments politics
- In each of these charts look for the year 1981, when Reagan took office. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/your-helpful-charts-o-day.html 7 comments politics
- No, America is not a conservative country. But we do have a racism problem. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/no-america-is-not-conservative-country.html 10 comments politics
- Hullabaloo: Sacrificing thousands of kids on the altar of racist rightwing fantasies http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/sacrificing-thousands-of-kids-on-altar.html 3 comments politics
- Founding fathers quotes you probably haven't heard http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/founding-fathers-quotes-you-probably.html 3 comments politics
- Shared sacrifice? This "tip" money to wealthy people is the difference between medicine and orange juice to people who have to live on $1100.00 a month. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/depraved-indifference.html 12 comments politics
- The irony, of course, is that President Obama is the fellow who ran for president as the one true liberal who wouldn't have voted for the Iraq War. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/lawyer-shopping.html 3 comments politics
- GOP dirty tricks in NC - robocall in the middle of the night, repeatedly, pretending to be the Dem candidate. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/zombie-atwater.html 8 comments reddit.com
- Don't be evil. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt: "The real issues around costs are all in the entitlements and the fact of the matter is we have had an economic change that people are now living much longer and that the entitlements are unaffordable." http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/uh-google-dont-be-evil.html 6 comments politics
- 8 things to know before voting: President Obama reduced the deficit, cut taxes, didn't bail out the banks and passed the stimulus bill which worked. Businesses need customers not tax cuts, Social Security isn't in trouble, HCR will reduce deficit and ... http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/for-your-doorknocking-dave-johnsons.html 63 comments politics
- Alan Grayson's opponent . . . and Tea Party superstar Bryan Fischer just tore the lid off of the biggest scandal to hit these shores since Ted Haggard got caught in bed with a male prostitute http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/no-soup-for-you-jihadi-plot-to-kill-you.html 13 comments politics
- "At this point in the United States it is permissible for Republicans to attack Democrats as treasonous, Godless/Muslim socialists and compare them to Hitler and Stalin but Democrats are only allowed to attack Republicans for their differences in policy." http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/disavowal-movement-resurgent.html 11 comments politics
- Method to their Madness: Those of you who went through the 90s will recognize this phenomenon. It's when the right's ferocious attacks are so vicious and relentless that they eventually wear down average, common sense people with normal lives to lead --- and even scare them a little. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/method-to-their-madness-how-freakshow.html 5 comments politics
- What you can expect if the GOP wins the House: Impeachment charges against President Obama for palling around with Jay-Z and Beyonce. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/laying-out-case.html 8 comments politics
- I guess you can see why the cops all over the country are saying their privacy rights are being violated by videos of their activities. It really hurts the ball team when stuff like this comes out. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/stop-resisting-this-could-easily-be-any.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 17 comments politics
- Looking back, the racists must wish they'd put civil rights on state ballots so that people could vote their bigotry on a secret ballot. They could have kept Jim Crow for decades longer. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/about-last-night-by-digby-thoughts-even.html 117 comments politics
- The Republican Party is telling its members that Democrats may use voting registration information to identify and kill them. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/suggested-by.html 23 comments politics
- Bill O'Reilly plays the victim in the slaying of a doctor in Kansas. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-there-anyone-on-earth-more.html 170 comments politics
- "It was a mentality reduced to putty.” New York Times' obituary of American pilot captured and tortured by Chinese in 1953. So, it's torture when it's done to us, and something else when we do it to others. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/exceptional-dissonance-by-digby-both.html 8 comments politics
- Just What Is The Appeal Of Conservatism? http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-is-appeal-of-conservatism-by.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Hugging the Panda: Bill O'Reilly's 2 + 2 = 5 moment on "The Daily Show" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/hugging-panda-by-dday-this-bill-oreilly.html 7 comments politics
- Blowback - Syria Opens Its Borders to Allow Foreign Fighters to Enter Iraq in Retaliation For US Attack http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-one-could-have-anticipated-by-dday.html 2 comments reddit.com
- There's nothing wrong with Palin's accent. In fact, it might even be charming if it were real. (video) http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/sounds-from-mars-by-digby-i-cant-tell.html 16 comments reddit.com
- The president of the United States personally ordered that prisoners be tortured. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/bad-apples-were-in-white-house-by.html 7 comments politics
- If history judged Richard Nixon and George W. Bush based solely on their marital faithfulness, they would be considered among the best presidents we ever had. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/oh-heck-by-digby-it-looks-like-soap.html 4 comments politics
- Look at what's been scrubbed from McCain's Website http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/scrubbed-by-digby-look-whats-been.html 16 comments politics
- McCain calls Katrina "a perfect storm" of mismanagement, "Never again." So why was he eating cake with GWB on that day? http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/let-them-eat-cake-by-digby-never-again.html 3 comments politics
- We've essentially in the Bush era set up a kind of corporate Marxism, where risk is socialized, but where wealth is privatized. Homeowners are the only ones who ever feel any pain. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/corporate-welfare-e.html 8 comments politics
- Speaker Pelosi floats a trial balloon: splitting the FISA bill to make it easier to pass. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/murmurs-of-another-cave-by-dday-i-was.html 4 comments politics
- A Democratic president, no matter who it is, is going to pay for the Republicans' sins. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-things-work-by-digby-what-atrios.html 6 comments politics
- Imagine if Bush had been in office when the Cuban missile crisis happened. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/cool-head-by-digby-i-realized-few-years.html 22 comments politics
- We are in the midst of an intellectual crisis in this country where certain dogmatic and incoherent beliefs are allowed to dominate the discourse in spite of the fact that they are demonstrably false. It's one of the most difficult problems we face. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/politics-under-water-by-digby-im-just.html 31 comments reddit.com
- I am no longer confused about why Monica Goodling took the fifth. I have little doubt that there are many crimes that took place and she's not taking any chances. This is bigger than the US Attorney scandal. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/caught-in-buzzsaw-by-digby-tpm.html 9 comments reddit.com
- "A reporter's privilege should not be used to help powerful people in government lie to the public about what it's doing or punish its enemies for speaking out against it. It exists to protect people who are risking their livelihoods by speaking out against those same powerful people." http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/lancing-boil-by-digby-one-of-most.html 3 comments reddit.com
- The Aristocrats -- everything you need to know about what true conservatism is really all about. http://www.digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_digbysblog_archive.html?the+aristocrats#116553315080957566 3 comments reddit.com