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Markos Moulitsas is the Founder of Daily Kos - http://www.dailykos.com - an American political blog, disseminating news and opinion from a largely liberal, progressive point-of-view.

The son of a Salvadoran mother and Greek father, Moulitsas spent his formative years in El Salvador (1976-1980), where he saw first-hand the ravages of civil war. His family fled threats on their lives by the communist guerillas and settled in the Chicago area.

Moulitsas earned two bachelor degrees at Northern Illinois University (1992-96), with majors in Philosophy, Journalism, and Political Science and a minor in German. He subsequently earned a J.D. at Boston University School of Law (1996-99) before deciding that it would be a cold day in hell before he ever worked as a lawyer.

He headed West to the San Francisco Bay Area to make his dot.com millions but got nowhere. He worked as a project manager at a web development shop when, in 2002, he started Daily Kos. Moulitsas flirted with political consulting in 2003 before deciding that 1) he hated it, and 2) he didn't need to do it. Daily Kos was making enough revenues to allow him to blog full-time, which he still does today.