Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (; born September 11, 1971 ), often known by his username and former military nickname " Kos " ( kōz ), is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics in the United States.

During the United Kingdom general election in 2005, Moulitsas was hired by the British daily newspaper The Guardian to write elections analysis for its weblog.

Moulitsas is also a regular contributor to Newsweek, having been hired by the magazine for its 2008 presidential campaign coverage.

Moulitsas is a fellow at the New Politics Institute, a think tank of the New Democrat Network, which was founded by Simon Rosenberg in 1996.

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Democratic blog Daily Kos, argues that by calling old media mainstream, new media is inherently marginalized, and thus prefers to use the term " traditional media " instead.

It was reported that Markos Moulitsas was one of those who had become upset, saying that he thought Tester was " morally bankrupt " and that he would now go out of his way to oppose Tester's election bid.

Moulitsas was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Salvadorian mother and Greek father.

Prior to enlisting in the Army, Moulitsas was a member of the Republican Party.

On March 17, 2008, Moulitsas stated that Senator Hillary Clinton, who was then involved in a protracted race against Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, " doesn't deserve fairness on this site " because she " fails the test of the guiding principles of this site " and because Clinton had " no reasonable chance of victory ".

His victory was partially credited to grassroots activism, and the support from the blogosphere, with Moulitsas in particular.

Markos Moulitsas, who runs the liberal Daily Kos website, told reporters in August 2007 that he does not read conservative blogs, with the exception of those on NRO: " I do like the blogs at the National Review — I do think their writers are the best in the blogosphere ," he said.

Moulitsas also noted that he has endorsed several victorious candidates in upsets, including Howard Dean for chair of the DNC, Jon Tester in the 2006 Democratic U. S. Senatorial primary in Montana, Jim Webb in the 2006 Democratic U. S. Senatorial primary in Virginia, and Ned Lamont in the 2006 U. S. Senatorial primary in Connecticut.

In a post to his website, Moulitsas wrote that he prefers not to be given credit for such things, because it understates the efforts of grassroots contributors.

** Kos, nickname for Markos Moulitsas ( b. 1971 ), founder of the Daily Kos blog

More recently, in 2006, Markos Moulitsas proposed the term libertarian Democrat to describe his liberal particular position, suggesting that libertarians should be allies of the Democratic Party.

Moulitsas currently resides in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children.

" Moulitsas has described the Army as " perhaps the ideal society – we worked hard but the Army took care of us in return.

However, during his time in the military Moulitsas began a transition in his political philosophy that would lead him to change his party affiliation from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.

Moulitsas describes himself as a recovering Catholic, and says that while he has many problems with the Church, Salvadoran martyr and archbishop Oscar Romero is still his greatest hero and inspiration.

After graduating from law school, Moulitsas moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a project manager at a web development shop.

Moulitsas attended the California State Democratic convention in Sacramento in March, 2003 with Jerome Armstrong of MyDD.

Prior to the 2006 elections, Moulitsas endorsed several candidates who rarely won races.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

Before Judge Gerald Fisher reminded her to address the court instead of the defendant, Susan Levy responded directly: " Did you really take her life?

Allende directly responded to Jessup's call for research on the " Unified Field Theory ", which he referred to as " UFT ".

Benazir Bhutto also responded to Khan when she moved the Ministry of Science and Technology's office to the Prime Minister Secretariat with Munir Ahmad Khan directly reporting to her.

Lord Carnarvon responded by sending the distinguished historian James Anthony Froude to southern Africa, with orders to discretely push for confederation, test popular opinion about it and report all information directly back to Carnarvon.

The agency responded that such a notion was ridiculous, since the militias were directly responsible for half of the casualties inflicted on U. S. forces.

These valves responded to a rise in train pipe pressure as the brake was applied, and admitted atmospheric air directly to the underside of the brake cylinder.

" Mays responded by calling Cobb a " Yellow dog " After order was finally restored, Mays promptly hit Cobb directly on the wrist.

Eventually, Vignelli, even after strongly criticizing the work of Emigre, directly promoted Licko's font Filosofia, to which Licko responded, " Massimo's willingness to collaborate on our announcement reflects Emigre's ability to bridge different approaches.

Commander Lloyd Bucher, the former commanding officer of the Pueblo, responded to the review and petitioned directly to the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Carlisle A. H. Trost.

Marović never responded directly to these claims, mentioning only that he hasn't read the book and punningly adding that he was taught some other rules-" like the rule of keeping silent about untruth and slander ".

The $ 80, 000 prize money was spent directly on research, and when asked about the significance of his achievement, Leloir humbly responded:

She did not directly answer as she had no clue what she was even talking about, so instead she responded that what was more important was that the legislation would ban large capacity " clips " ( sic ) of the type used in the Virginia Tech massacre and that the class of guns chosen prohibited by the law were those used by gangs and killers of police officers.

Milošević responded to press questions of whether the Serbian government approved the Bosnian Serbs, by claiming that the Serbian government did not directly support the Srpska government or Serb military forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in their war but claimed that Serbs had the right to self-determination.

These sections did their own technical fire control and responded directly to fire orders from observers.

The PRC responded to this initiative by setting up the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ( ARATS ), directly led by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.

Planned Parenthood has responded to this effort directly in a leaflet acknowledging that Sanger agreed with some of her contemporaries who advocated the voluntary hospitalization or sterilization of people with untreatable, disabling, hereditary conditions, and limits on the immigration of the diseased.

" RWB responded in a press release that “ UNESCO has withdrawn its support to the promotion of this campaign because several of the Nations which are part of the list of Internet Enemies published by the nongovernmental organization have directly put pressure to achieve it .”

In New York, Morris began to explore the work of Marcel Duchamp making pieces that directly responded to Duchamp ’ s ( Box with the Sound of its Own Making ( 1961 ), Fountain ( 1963 )).

His men responded with deadly fire directly into the crowd.

Grenville responded to Pitt, saying the disturbances in America " border on open rebellion ; and if the doctrine I have heard this day be confirmed, nothing can tend more directly to produce a revolution.

Neither responded directly, and Casey later received a letter explaining that he would not receive a spot.

He explained this extraordinary versatility — he once danced for more than an hour before a dancing class without repeating a step — by insisting that his feet responded directly to the music, his head having nothing to do with it.

Ford never responded to the question directly, answering with a twinkle in his eye " Well, what do you think ?".