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• Dear GOP: Time to Blink, You've Lost.

  

  The only question remaining is how badly do you want to continue losing? Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Culture Failed Thinking

  

  If you follow the logic of the claim by the NRA, that good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns, some gun-toting shoot-first-minded armed citizen should have... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My New Favorite Things

  I have thoroughly enjoyed Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s previous series that combined DNA research with more traditional genealogy, I am very much... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Rubio

  

  Senator Marco Rubio made the rebuttal speech to the President's State of the Union address. His unfortunate awkwardness with a water bottle was made much of by... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conspiracy Theory Fringies

  

  The fringies and extremists are oblivious to how isolated and in opposition to the majority. Because they operate in a bubble, where they only hear themselves,... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Deaths to Exceed Auto Deaths in Only Two Years

  

  The opponents of gun control try to pretend that all tools are alike; that there is no difference in function, use or intent and purpose of design. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• And the Number Rises Daily

  

  Those who reject the need for gun control have no answer, no real response to the clear indication that while they may - or may NOT - be different than those wh... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = HYPOCRISY : Trampling the 1st Amendment in a Fascist, Authoritarian...

  That the right willfully disregards every letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution is evident; it is obvious in their attempts at voter suppression, voter... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Celebrating Black History Month - Better Late Than Never

  

  On a serious note, too few people seem to realize that amendments continue to be ratified even after a sufficient number of states have done so for an... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• To Those Who Oppose Gun Laws

  Recently one commenter (Karl from Oklahoma) threatened DG, dared her to "try to take his guns", offered to "throw lead her way" and ominously threatened her... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Faking Conspiracy Theories

  

  Obviously, John Kennedy was not either socialist or Kenyan, nor did he fake shooting skeet, and no one at the time of is administration reasonably believed he... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 CULTURE

• Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Representative Government

  

  The GOP likes to claim they are "the party of Lincoln". They used to be; they aren't any more, and have not been for quite a long time. Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• President's Day and Darwin - Science Versus Superstition

  

  Today is the federal holiday when we celebrate the combined holidays of the birthday of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln; some use it to celebrate the... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Confusion Over Going Backwards Or Going Forwards

  

  Republicans are going backward, and keep trying to regress as hard as they possibly can. The GOP has had some great presidents in their past, but not for a... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It Has Been a Week

  

  photo from here It has been a week since the email/comment from Karl Rolla Schneider about sending some lead my way and knowing where I live. It has been a... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why We Don't Take Them Seriously

  

  Steve Sack is of course brilliant. But when the right tries to be serious - and these four fools are very serious, however ludicrous the things they say are,... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bad Judgment by Bad Men

  

  It is hard to tell who is worse, Whine La Pierre or the evil Sheriff Joe and his obnoxious side kick with their posse of thugs comprised of pedophiles and wife... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Priorities, Failures, Realities

  The right tries to deny it, but they are liars; the right has been waging a war on women. The right tries to deny it, but they have had a failed set of... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• If You Don't Believe These Things, Don't Belong to the NRA

  

  Don't believe me? Think Progress did a great piece on the NRA pandering to those who want to shoot their fellow Americans. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• We Deman Better, We Demand More

  

  New / former Congressman Rick Nolan spoke to this, unfavorably comparing the current calendar for Congress to his previous terms in Congress. THIS should be... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY