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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1995 )

• Republicans/Convervatives AGREE, Man Contributes to Climate Change.. Well, Sort...

  Today, the US Senate took several "historic" votes.   The first, comical one, was taken to agree it's actually happening, that the fact that the Earth is warmin... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Republicans Came a Bad Second in the SOTU -- Their Choice

  

  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 22 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Good Point!

  

  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 22 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bloodletting of a Different Sort

  There was once a medical practise called bloodletting, which had been practised for millennia.  In fact, Bloodletting was also popular in the young United State... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Free-DUMB, DUMBER, DUMBEST

  

  NOT the date of his assassination, the holiday celebrates MLK's birthday (actually occurred last week - this is the nearest Monday, a custom for federal... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Mythbusting Right Wing Revisionist History

  

  The conservatives in the United States have a problem. That problem is that they are consistently on the wrong side of the arc of history. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Celebrate! Respect!

  

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  Posted on 16 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Perfect Example of Why We NEED Our Satirists, Our Artists -- Hooray Luckovich!

  

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  Posted on 14 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Islamo-terrorists in France, and the Role of the Radical Right and the NRA

  

  They're all dead now, the two groups of terrorists. It was inevitable that would be how it ended, but it was avoidable from the beginning. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Je Suis Charlie!

  

  Charlie Hebdo was an equal opportunity satirical journal in that they attacked pretty much everybody.  In fact, they had more run ins with Christians than... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fiore on Fanatics

  

  and to provide a little context to the fanatics, and what drives them, because this is all part of the problem: and from Fiore back in 2012 Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Charlie Hebdo

  

  Yesterday, at the magazine Charlie Hebdo (said Sharlee ebb doe as I understand), a number of artists and satarists, were massacred by religious extremists. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• For You, Huckabee, Jeb Bush, and the Rest of the Losers on the Right

  

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  Posted on 05 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fiscal Conservative = Waste Money

  

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  Posted on 05 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bad Pennies Award - Penigma Lie of the Year, 2014

  

  It's a tie, with plenty of dirty old bad pennies to spread around! Politifact gives their award for lie of the year to lies, plural, about the Ebola virus,... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy New Year to All Our Readers!

  

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  Posted on 01 January 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• In the Land of Stop Lights and Strip Malls

  I recently spent some time down in an "ex-urb" of New Orleans, visiting my parents.  The area in which they live is principally white, upper-middle class, and... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 2014 Good Pennies Award - to Steve Sack, Editorial Cartoonist, for Telling It...

  

  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 29 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Bad Pennies Award for Senatorial Hypocrisy Goes to Tom Coburn

  

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  Posted on 24 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Another Bad Pennies Award for 2014: Andrew Tahmooressi, Montel Williams, and...

  

  I'm glad Andrew Tahmooressi is home, but he should never have been permitted to have those guns in the first place that got him arrested in Mexico. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY