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• Colbert Nails IT! Guns and Religion.......

  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 11 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives, by Definition, Believe Things That Are Not True

  

  Tip of the hat to Addicting Info for this. According to right wing nut case Jim Garrow, the Obamacare guillotine has now been legalized and will be used to... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Republican Minnesota Legislator Pat Garofalo Nationally Humiliated for Racism

  

  Pat Garofalo, face palmed[ A trash-talking / trash-tweeting member of the MN GOP had to back track after first doubling down on a racist tweet. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Michele Bachmann Struggles with Rejection by America by Attending CPAC

  

  At CPAC, Michele Bachmann continued her cray-cray. She is dealing with rejection the same way she deals with the rest of reality, by denying it. Her own party... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Arresting Developments: The Wacky Religious Right Fake Arrests

  Whiny conservatives like to claim they are the victims of a "war on Christians". There is no 'war on Christians', but they enjoy pretending to be victims when... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• C-PAC and Other Right Wing Nuts Apparently Don't Know President Carter IS ALIVE

  

  Shame on them. It's not like he has gone into a shameful retirement because of a disgraced presidency. Instead of painting shlocky naked self-portraits and... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It's Friday Fun Day - but Not for McCain and Probably Not for His Buddy Putin...

  But not so much fun if you're the Putin-praising Senator John McCain from Arizona. I have to wonder if perhaps the elderly senator is getting a bit past it, as... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Norms and Shame - Another Post for International Women's Day

  

  Cross posted from MN Political Roundtable with the permission of the author: Happy International Women's Day! Let's marvel together at what happens in India:... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• March 8th is International Women's DayConservatives Don't VALUE Women, They...

  

  Next door in South Dakota we have another example of racism meeting misogyny, and attempt by right wingers to intrude more of THEIR religious bias into... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why the Radical Right Has to LIE About Gun Confiscation - Because It is Not Real

  

  The Radical Right subset of propagandists are in high gear. Understandably, the main stream media is not joining in their hysteria mongering. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Watching International News This Morning Made Me Proud of Obama and Kerry

  There was some de-escalation by Putin, pulling troops back from the border. But what most made me proud this morning was the video footage of Ukraine troops in... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• MN GOP Stands for 'Mazingly Nutty, Gullible (&)/OR Paranoid!

  

  A Minnesota radical Right Wing blogger wrote up a rumor earlier today as if it were fact this morning that “Connecticut was a commin’ to confiscate yer guns”. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Mardi Gras!

  Have some traditional holiday pancakes, and then party, at least a little, to celebrate the last leg of winter and Lent, knowing that spring and Easter... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Shame on the Killers, Shame on the Radical Right

  

  They are killers, even when the people who will die are their own children.These people are the epitome of hate, of greed, of lust for power, of inhumanity and... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Adults Should Know Better (about Gun Laws)

  Every great once in a while, I stroll by my friend's blog.  My friend is an ultra-conservative, hard-right politico for whom nearly nothing is too far right... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Russia Has a Problem, and They Know It. It's Putin.

  

  Putin, playing bad ass dress up No need to get one's knickers in a twist. No need to invest in a cold-war era bomb shelter, or if you have one, to try to drag... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Problem (Ignorance) and the Solution (Science and Education)

  

  Looking forward to the guy on the viewer's left disappearing into oblivion very soon. He'll be trivia history by the end of the year. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• WHY is the Radical Religious Right Pushing PRO-Discrimination Laws Under the...

  

  In Arizona, there are five municipalities, including Phoenix, which have local anti-discrimination ordinances that prohibit treating gays (or disabled people,... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• More American Liberty! This Time in Kentucky -- Baby Steps, but Getting There.

  

  Kentucky is in the process of legal challenges to their ban on recognizing same sex marriages performed in their own state, but as of yesterday a court has rule... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Update: What Bakeries Have Been Charging for Penis Cakes, Going Back to 2004 Or...

  

  It's always fun to laugh at the follies and failures of the fearful Tea Party ideology. Previously I wrote about the terror experienced by Judon Phillips of... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY