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• About That 'fiery Car Crash' and George Zimmerman Riding to the Rescue...

  I'm fascinated with how false or grossly inaccurate stories make the national media, and how and when the blogosphere does such a good job of fact checking them... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• George Zimmerman is No Hero, but He Does Appear to Be a First Class FRAUD

  I was not the only person who was highly skeptical when the news report came out about George Zimmerman coming to the rescue of a family of four trapped in a... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Moral Mondays, Not-so-Moral Republicans Collide, with Tyrannical Right-wing...

  

  from the JDNews, Jacksonville, NC: More arrested as NC legislature protests continue May 7, 2013 from the Rocky Mount Telegram: More than 80 arrested in NAACP... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Pro'Green' Tea in Politics?

  

  Energy policy is at the core of astro-turfed Tea Party groups, funded by fossil fuel money like that of the Koch Brothers. We see the effects of that big money... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Contradictions: the Law Versus Police and Public Safety Campaigns

  

  cross-posted from IVN There is an aspect to the Zimmerman trial that has been under-addressed in spite of the attention devoted to it. Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The GOP Phenomena of Right Wing Smart / Dumb People

  What Bill Maher fails to correctly identify here is that there is a key element of willful ignorance, where these people make the CHOICE to ignore all the... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Guns, Homicides and Suicides, and the U.S. Constitution

  

  Lincoln, sulpted in stone on Mount Rushmore cross-posted from IVN:Although it is a statement widely attributed to Abraham Lincoln relating to a temporary... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Poop Scoop on False Stories About Protesters - This Time, False Stories Abou...

  

  cross-posted from Penigma at IVN: The Poop Scoop – an Update on the Dirt on Fake Protester Stories, (not Zimmerman Verdict protesters this time, but the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Smile and Say "the Moon is Made of Green CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE".....

  

  From IFLS Comb your hair and shine your shoes: Friday is picture day! The Cassini spacecraft will be pointed at Earth on July 19 from a distance of 898... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservative Extremists Try to Spin, and Then Just Lie, About Racial...

  

  According to Opposing Views reporting on the crazy extremist right wing nut jobs (RWNJs for short) over at the Daily Caller, black people benefit more than whit... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Grossly Inaccurate Reporting About Zimmerman Verdict Rioting - More Inaccurate...

  

  Police officers in riot gear patrol the streets following a prayer vigil for Trayvon Martin on July 16, 2013, in Los Angeles. More than 3,000 people were... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Problem with Superficial Thinking, Assumptions and Fears

  

  By way of actor George Takei's facebook page; Takei as a child was interned in one of the camps for Japanese Americans during World War II. There the... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Brilliant Sack Cartoon Commenting on Kill-at-Will Laws

  

  Neighborhood Wash/Watch -- the blood stains are still there, not only in this death but in many other deaths. Shoot First/Kill at Will/Stand Your Ground laws... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Zimmerman Verdict

  Given the controversial verdicts in Florida courts in recent years, one has to ask if it is possible to get a just verdict in Florida, or if that state has... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Like the Rest of the Right, Brodkorb's Got Nothing

  Michael Brodkorb's entire career has been founded on being a smear-monger, a person who trashed the reputations of others, a professional hypocrite in every way... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Texas -- What Are You Afraid Of? Women? Be Afraid of Women, Not Sanitary...

  

  and from our friends at PoliticusUSA: Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Pigs at the Public Trough; GOP = Mega-hypocrites

  There are a lot of members of Congress taking subsidies. Shame on them, for all of it. Shame on them especially for rejecting the proposed amendment to this bil... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The DoJ and Florida, Or Why Extreme Conservatives Are Both Stupid and...

  The right wing blogosphere is in its usual hysteria mode over the George Zimmerman trial, never mind those pesky things called facts. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Right Wing Advocates of Gun Violence

  

  The NRA Convention this year was one long celebration encouraging gun violence and right-wing extremism. It was attended by mostly old white flabby crabby men. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• North Carolina, Vrrroooom Vrooom, CRASH

  

  North Carolina has been hijacked by the extreme right wing, including anti-abortion fanatics, who are bent on taking away our Constitutionally guaranteed... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY