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• Brexit Is Breaking the British Economy; is Recession Beginning

  

  It has been one month since the UK voted to 'Brexit', Britain exiting the European Union. The results are not good. The numbers reflect a severe contraction of... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Update: Stealing Other People's Designs, Using Music Without Permission, a...

  

  We know that Donald Trump used a fake identity to deal with PR issues, a character he named John Barron. His son with Melania Trump is now named Barron... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP, Party of Failure to Take Responsibility, Party of Lies, Party of Hypocrisy...

  Melania Trump plagiarized First Lady Michele Obama.  She never owned that she copied the words of the first lady. Melania Trump, as represented by the... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Dozen Reasons Why: Concealed Carrying of Guns is NOT Like Air Bags

  The RNC national convention is working overtime to make people feel afraid; it is some of the worst fear mongering, the most inaccurate passel of lies I have... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Dozen Reasons Why: Concealed Carrying of Guns is NOT Like Air Bags

  I recently read a discussion with someone who was intellectually dishonest, yet this person expected -- one might say DEMANDED that he be regarded with trust an... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The GOP Platform and Public Health Policy: How Silly It is for the GOP to Fear...

  I heard a joke from a child some years ago.  Q. Know why when geese fly in a Vee formation, one side is always longer than the other? A. More geese on the long... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Have We Finally Put to Rest the Silly Notion That Good Guys with Guns Will Stop...

  

  We keep hearing over and over from the pro-gun goof-balls that if they only had guns, if they were only there at the time, they would heroically, even magically... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives Are Duh Duh Dumbing Down America

  You have to enjoy a sense of humor, and appreciate that fact is consistently stranger than fiction. I recall the famous chair of the U of MN department of... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Hillary Clinton and the Law

  Last week, Trey Gowdy, the U.S. House Representative (R-SC) and former prosecutor, grilled the head of the FBI about why it was that the FBI wasn't going to... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Will Conservatives Undo Brexit?

  There is a rather one-sided battle for who will be the next Prime Minister of the UK. It is not particularly close. The battle for 10 Downing Street is between... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Telling It Like It is - Right Wing Extremist Terrorists, the No-fly No-buy...

  

  It is a painful reality for conservatives that in their attempts to enlarge their political tent, they have thrown out the wrong people, the moderates, and... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The American Revolution from the View of Brexit

  

  so-called Betsy Ross flag We cannot honestly celebrate history if we are not honest about what that history has been, both good and bad. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives Brexit, Conservatives Broke It. 'It' Being the UK.

  

  The vote to leave the UK was along party lines, being overwhelmingly a vote by Conservatives both conventional 'mainstream' conservatives, and the more rabid... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP Bigots Lie AGAIN About History, and About Banning Muslims

  

  Snopes debunked this claim. Carter, briefly, denied visas on the basis of nationality, not religion, strictly during the hostage crisis. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Donald Trump is P.T. Barnum

  

  The snake-oil Donald Trump is selling really is only one note. Trump brings people into his camp by promising that he’s going the help defend “them”, those who... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Honor, Integrity and Gun-Enabled Violence

  There is much to reflect upon whenever a tragedy happens. What we should focus on, easing the pain to the extent any easing can be done. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Free Zones and Conservative Sock Puppets

  

  Pro-gunners, particularly of the rabidly conservative variety are irrational on the topic of firearms, particularly those used in mass shootings. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Encouraging and Condoning Violence - Here is What is Wrong with Conservatism

  

  It has long been my contention that it is the function of liberals and independents to prevent conservatives, through law, from doing bad things to other... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Donald Trump, Classless Jackass

  There is a saying that you can't buy, no matter how hard you try. Donald Trump, you are a no-class heel. Trying to benefit politically from a mass killing is... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Katie Couric Vs. Conservatives: the Under the Gun Controversy

  

  Conservatives are not factual, and conservatives whine, claiming they are victims when they are not, in fact, victims at all.  And conservatives are massive... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2016 DEBATE, SOCIETY