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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1995 )

• 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

• Friday Fun-Day- More Fiore!

  Mark Fiore is both one of the ost astute observers and critics of current affairs, and an extremely entertaining animator. It's Friday -- ENJOY! Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Sex SCARES Tea Partiers and Other Bigots! Apparently No One Ever Explained the...

  

  Two Salon stories caught me by surprise, each trying to outdo the other in maximizing offensive conservative remarks. The first Salon piece was about a nut-job... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 DEBATE, LOVE & SEX, SOCIETY

• The Sadly Silly Alternate Reality That Michele Bachmann Lives In

  

  Put Michele Bachmann's face on a stick, and have fun making up stuff. You can't get goofier than she is. Via City Pages: Michele Bachmann argues anti-gay bill i... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Hooray for First Lady, Michele Obama, (and for Honorary First Lady of France,...

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  Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gov. Jan Brewer VETOES Bill By Conservatives, For Conservatives, to Legalize...

  

  The only two things conservatives like MORE than whining they are victims when they are not, is to discriminate against a minority and/or women, and to shoot... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Tim Scannell Trial Update

  Tim Scannell, prosecutor and prosecuted for sex crimes with underage girls in northeastern Minnesota, has had his next court date postponed to March 27th. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gay Marriage Ban -- Another One Bites the RED RED RED Dust, This Time Bloody...

  Another gay marriage ban bites the dust in the deeply red state of Texas. It will be interesting to see what the Attorney General, Greg Abbot, recently seen... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• In Honor of Black History Month -- Calling out the Revisionist History FACT TURD...

  Either we have the right falsely claiming credit for human rights because Lincoln was a Republican, back when Republicans - and especially Lincoln - were... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Sincerely Held Beliefs Do Not Define Dsicrimination, and Freedom of Religion Doe...

  

  In a recent interview on MSNBC, actor and gay activist George Takei observed, very fairly, that gay men and women in our military are put in harms way... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY