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• Birtherism, the Track Back of Fact

  

  Much ado about nothing has been made of the Clinton staffer who was fired for circulating an email questioning Obama's birthplace. No one however has ever... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Starting Your Monday with Something Fun: Seriously, It Wa...

  

  Starting your Monday with something fun: Seriously, it was a delight to watch the Trump surrogates squirm as they tried to shift attention away from why Trump... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun Day - Time to Laugh at Conservative Dishonesty, BUSTED by...

  

  Trump eats crow In this morning's Factcheck.org feed, to which I subscribe, was this about Trump's (and in his condidacy day's Cruz's) claim that Hillary... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

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  Opinions Prisoner Theory Institute "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by th... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Miracle! Lightning Did NOT Strike Mike Pence!

  

  I am shocked, SHOCKED, that in the midst of so egregiously lying through his teeth, that Pence was not fried by a bolt from heaven. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Remembering 9/11, and What We Need to Learn from It

  

  I remember where I was when the Twin Towers were struck in New York City.  I was watching Good Morning America, which had outside cameras on their building... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Pro-Rape and Pro-Sexual Harassment Position of the Right Wing Misogynists an...

  

  No democratic candidate would make a statement like this, and the right would be screaming for him or her to leave as nominee if they did so. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• There's a Word for That: Dictator

  

  From the Trump comments on Putin in the NBC Forum: I've already said, he is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, 'Oh, isn't that a terrible... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Tiny Hands and Too Few Salutes: the Devil in the Details of the Trump Open Lette...

  

  Some in the media are giving unwarranted attention to the open letter in support of Donald Trump, with 88 high ranking military officer signatures. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• ROW : Rest of World

  

  We do not live in a vacuum.  We do not live in a bubble. What the rest of the planet thinks matters, and they are often right with the difference in perspective. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Time for a Little News from Factcheck.org on Obama and the Pledge of Allegiance

  

  Following the recent right wing propaganda driven BS about the American flag being prohibited at a South Carolina High School sporting event that I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Remembering WHY We Celebrate Labor Day, and What We Need to Worry About Going...

  

  This is the culmination of Labor efforts that have given us the five day work week, the 8 hour work day, sweatshop working conditions, overtime, an end (in... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It's Friday Fun-Day! So Let's Laugh at Trump and Silly Republicans

  

  This seemed worthy of posting, having just passed the 11th anniversary of the damage and subsequent relief cock-up resulting from Hurricane Katrina. Or... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Bigot Spigot: White Bigots Demanding the Privlege of Demeaning Minorities...

  

  Race is an artificial construct; it does not really exist.  Rather what we term racism is antagonism and hatred towards an ethnicity, towards people who come... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Poutrage: More Right Wing Flag Porn, Flag Propaganda 9

  For those unfamiliar with the term, Poutrage, from the Urban dictionary: The combination of emotion and behavior that results from a possibly feigned or... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Melania Trump is a Gold Digger, and Porn Poser, but is Not, So Far as Anyone...

  The left side of our blog demands critical thinking and evidence.  We mean it. The Daily Mail, the original source of the story has been threatened with legal... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Castles in the Sky and Voices in My Head

  Recent conversation with a conservative friend in a garage down the street: “RepubliCON: Respect my Authoritayeeh! Me: Umm… I think I did. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives Want Us to Believe They Support Our Military. They Do Not.

  

  We see this kind of failure to support our military in exclusively Republicans voting against adequate funding for the VA. We see this kind of failure to suppor... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bigot Spigot 2, Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton Versus Michele Bachmann and the...

  It is impossible to tighten down the spigot of bigotry that daily spews hatred and disinformation to the willfully ignorant right wing of the political spectrum. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ilhan Omar

  My friend, Mitch Berg, over at Shot in the Dark, is having a field day going after the Democratic Primary winner of district 60B.  The woman who won, Ilhan Omar... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY