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• Ted Cruz, Tea Party Liar and 2016 Hopeful for President

  

  The only phrase that comes close to being adequate is corrupt, grandstanding asshole.The following are only from approximately the past month. He has more; he'l... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The History of Black Gangs

  

  From We the People:   Did you know that the first Black gangs in L.A. were established to fight against a white gang called the Spook Hunters? The back of... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Black History Month

  

  I am sad to find that there are terrible assumptions still made about black people - about black fathers who actively parent their children and are... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Breaking News!

  

  Chuck Hagel has been confirmed! Loopy Lindsey Graham and crabby, increasingly senile John McCain wail and gnash their teeth, while the tea party fool Ted Cruz... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Global Warming Agreement: Consensus, Not Controvery

  

  There is no 'controversy' among scientists on two subjects where the anti-acience right wing claims it.Consensus regarding anthropogenic global warming is 99. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Trayvon Matin - One Year Ago Today

  Racist George Zimmerman, who accused EVERY male black teen he saw in his neighborhood of being a criminal, regardless of the reality, and who made his black... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Wonderful World of Geek

  

  I love Legos; I loved as a child the transparent anatomy model figures that you assemble, of people and animals. How geeky is it that I know the version in the... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• GOP on the Sequestration: All Mouth, No Spine, No Memory, No Integrity

  

  Like Obamacare, aka Romneycare, the right pushes ideas, and then tries to blame the current administration for them. The most recent example is the right... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Failed Priorities, Failed Right Wing Economic Policies

  

  John Boehner was one of the worst offenders for catering to war profiteering making duplicate engines for every fuselage in his own district, to keep getting... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It is Black History Month; the More Some Thing Change, the More They Stay the...

  

  How far we have come, how far we still have to go. Republicans suppressed the vote this year by removing predominantly minority legal voters from voting rolls,... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Little Oscar Humor

  

  This is a little Academy award humor; as the person who shared it with me noted, it is awful - and you probably can't help laughing either. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Any Doubt the Right is Racist?

  When I visit my friend Mitch Berg's blog, the commentary of the Mitch-keteers is consistent in references to Barry-the-Kenyan and similar references to our... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Right Wing Nazis in the 2012 Election Cycle?

  

  Strictly speaking, Romney did not invent Romney care; it was an idea advanced by a right wing think tank, after being successful in other countries like... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Force is Not the Answer to the Problem, Armed People in School is Not the Answer

  

  We know what DOES work to prevent school shootings - and it is NOT armed guards in schools. The NRA is a one-trick pony that will give the same answer to every... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gop = Hypocrisy

  

  NO woman should be forced to have her rapist's child. NO woman should be denied the choice to have an abortion of this jackass's child either. The GOP needs to... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Right Wing Policies, Theories, and Economics Are a FAILURE

  

  Our economy has not done well under GOP presidents; growth is poor. De-regulation and failure to enforce the remaining regulations resulted in the worst economi... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fox News is Propaganda and disinformationNOT Fair OR BalancedNOT Factual, NOT...

  

  Failures like the failure of Fox to accurately report and predict the 2012 election cycle was only the most recent example. Fox news is not and never has been... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Another Example of the Violent Right

  

  These are the same people who are anti-government, "gun huggers", and who ascribe to an ideology that believes they are entitled and justified in shooting... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Busted by Factcheck.org: More GOP Game-playing, Lies and Hypocrisy - the Claim...

  We are seeing a lot of false claims made by the right about video games and video game playing. Whether it is that playing video games drives people to engage i... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Dear Conservatives, Bigots and Racists, and Let's Not Omit the Misogynists

  

  and let's not forget the homophobes, islamophobes, xenophobes, and of corse, the ever-present misogynists. So not happening, that genuine outreach, to any... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY