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Penigma
http://penigma.blogspot.com/
A mystery under a pseudonym; a blog dedicated to the rational discussion of politics and current events
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1870 )
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If You REALLY Honor Dads...
My heart goes out to all of the parents who six months ago were coping with the loss the day before of their children. In their honor and in the honor of all th... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
The Fathers of the Sandy Hook Kids Are Grieving, While the NRA Buys Their Way Ou...
Special Interest Corruption is killing our kids, and our adults, every day. Sometimes it is one at a time, sometimes it is groups. Read more
Posted on 16 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Fact Check.org Busts More Fact Failures by Right Wing Obama Bashers
This entity changed one failed fact for a different failed fact. There was no political sabotage by the IRS; there was only compliance with a law which did not... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Graduation Rates in Minnesota: The Good, the Bad, and the Budget
Cross Posted from MN Political Roundtable: The EPE Research Center, part of the non-profit Education Week came out with their latest report on our high school... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
What Would You Do? Sex, Empowerment and Education
What would you do? Even as a child, I tended to be aggressive in seeking what I considered to be effective solutions (or as my parents sometimes put it... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2013 DEBATE, LOVE & SEX, SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES -
I Love 'ifls'
For those who do not distinguish properly between the various developmental stages of a pregnancy pertaining to correct terminology, the stages of conceptus... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
On My Honor, I Swear...
My friend (DG) asked me to comment on the current scandal (or as I would call it, extraordinarily disgusting and massive national embarrsment) involving the US... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
For Pen, and for Peggy Noonan: We Need a Second Godwin's Law for Watergate
I hereby inaugurate the Penigma law.Peggy Noonan did something stupid, one of a number of stupid mistakes she has made; it was a glaring and embarrassing... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
GOP = Disinformation (a Fancy Word for LYING)
Estimates put the figure of how much the right has spent to try to lie to people about Obamacare aka the ACA at around $400 million +. But it isn't working. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
On This Day in 1968 Robert Kennedy Was Assassinated
On this day in 1968, then-Senator for New York Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the kitchen of a California hotel after winning the California presidential... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
GOP = Heartless Hypocrites with Neither Values nor Ethics Factcheck.org Busts...
Every time you hear a conservative say they are pro-life, especially INNOCENT life, they are liars. What they are is pro-forced birth. Read more
Posted on 06 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Just Curious About the “get Away with Murder” Laws
Yet another wrinkle in the assertion that the Second Amendment in some way allows for “self-Defence”: The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
HPV Vaccine - Not Just for Girls
The news came out this morning that the actor Michael Douglas, son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas, contracted throat cancer from the HPV virus, which CAN BE... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Failed Right Wing Economic Policies - They Just Don't Get It.
Supply side economics is an over-sized crock of crap. Always has been; always will be. If there is no market, there is no capitalism. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Buh Bye to the Bad Joke from Minnesota
Posted on 02 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Taking Money from Our Pockets When We Are Not Looking -- ALEC, Walmart, Special...
Like having to pay for the clean up of Walmarts illegally dumping toxic waste, where tax payers involuntarily subsidize the profits of the Walton family, we... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
GOP = Deficient Ethics and Morality
I think of things like this EVERY time one of the anti-choicers sound off about their 'pro-life' more-moral-than-liberals family values. "Oh, those poor innocen... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Ricin, Dangerous, Violent Gun Nuts and the Second Amendment
Mayor Bloomberg and the President have received letters recently poisoned with Ricin, a deadly concoction derived from castor beans. The letter came from a gun... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Michele Bachmann: Champion + Liar = Champion Liar, Not Hero, Not Leader, Not Goo...
I've heard it said by the right that those who oppose same sex marriage are not bigots, because they believe their position sincerely. They try to assert that... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Mike McFadden, Al Franken Declared Challenger and Romney Clone
cross posted from MN PP A short word on Franken vs. Romney, er, McFadden, the Romney clone by Dog Gone on May 30, 2013 · 0 comments It is premature to... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY