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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1995 )

• A Bad Guy with a Gun Can Only Be Stopped By...

  a good guy without a gun.. France high-speed train. Louisiana State Trooper (who had a gun) but was surprised by and killed by a bad guy with a gun. The bad... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservative Revisionist History: Digging a Little Deeper into the Politics of...

  

  Professor Richard J. Jensen Recently I have come across multiple references to what widely seems to be a losing battle between a conservative history revisionis... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP: Lies and Failures When It Comes to Jobs and Other Economic Policy

  

  This has been a promise made not only by Boehner and McConnell, and the right wing members of Congress. It is a promise made as well by the various governors an... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fun Visual to Start the Week off

  

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It's Friday Fun Day! GOP HYPOCRISY: Carson's Cutting Remarks!

  

  Anyone can occasionally contradict themselves, or alternatively change their views and opinions. But there is something unique to the hypocrisy on the right, th... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Coming to a Republican Debate Near You

  

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• People Have to Carry Insurance on Every Other Damn Thing ...

  

  People have to carry insurance on every other damn thing that could damage or harm people or property. These firearms should be categorized as an attractive... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = H Y P O C R I S Y (St. Ronald Ray-gun Rides Again! Uh- OH!)

  

  For all the lip service the right pays to Secular Saint Ronnie Ray-gun, he'd be run out of the GOP and the Tea Party on a rail, and then tarred and feathered,... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• And Rounding out the Weekend's Funnier Confrontations of Right Wing Hypocrisy

  

  We do not see conservatives trying to make THESE more legitimate challenges to the sanctity and success of traditional marriage illegal. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• And Another Refreshing View of Right Wing Hypocrisy - Do as I Say, Not as I Do,...

  

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Racists Tend to Be Gun Nuts......

  

  From FB/ Gun Control. Now. Probably not all gun nuts are racists, but ALL racists are gun nuts. I would add that the overwhelming majority of racists and simila... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Botanical and Historical Friday Fun Day

  

  Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima; Sunday will mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Of Love and Lawn Mowers: Conservatives Don't Get Consent and Consciousness

  Conservatives say stupid things they think are clever. The more extreme the Tea Bagger politics, usually the dumber and less insightful the comment. Facts are... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Food for Thought (Right-Wing Terrorism)

  A quote of a from the New York Times, based on statistics provided by the US Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center. Despite public anxiety about... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Achievers of New Lows in Hypocrisy = GOP

  

  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservative Boogeymen and Bad Conservative Government

  The deeply indebted MN GOP is trying to play their wedge politics on the state's dime, in contrast to legitimate non-wedge-issue investigations, in calling for... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

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  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Putting a Double Helping of Dumb in Fee Dumb

  

  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun Day

  

  Let's start with a newish video from clever satirical animator Mark Fiore and then move on to the fringe right craziest thing I've heard this week -- the claim... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Free Zones.......are NOT the Problem; GUNS ARE THE PROBLEM

  

  If more guns made us more safe, we would not have the gun violence problem as a nation that is unique to us, in contrast to other advanced nations. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY