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• We Had Another Train Collision todayA Bridge Not Far Enough; Trains Not New Or...

  

  A train derailed today in Baltimore, causing an explosion and setting nearby buildings on fire; deaths and injuries are still unknown. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Rounding out the End of the Merry, Merry Month of May

  

  May is a month for celebrating many things, including National Bike Month, National Military Appreciation Month and Military Spouse Month along with Memorial... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Memorial Day from Penigma; Remember It Means Honoring Those Who Serve in...

  

  Thank you to those who have served -- those in my family, my co-blogger and blog-founder, Pen, thank you to those I know in the service, past and present. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Lack of Intelligent Thinking on the Right, Prevelence of Emotional Thinking on...

  

  Drug users are a prohibited group of gun owners, and we know gun use impairs the necessary judgment for proper gun use. Therefore it makes sense to have drug... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives Are Irresponsible

  

  Conservatives whinge on about accountability, but the reality is they never take responsibility for their failures to act appropriately to preserve the public... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Money, Or Grandson? Special Interests and ALEC, Or Minnesota Citizens'...

  

  Cross posted from MNPP: Mary Kiffmeyer’s family gun violence problem, and the Gun Industry money and influence in the MN Legislature by Dog Gone on May 24,... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Right Wing 'Tenther' Hypocrisy on Immigration and Marriage

  

  Cross-posted from MN PP: Closely associated with right-wing-nuttery are the so-called ‘tenthers’, those who support an oddly unconstitutional view of the 10th... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Batshit Crazy Ladies of the Right

  

  It's been a while since I wrote about the birther queen, Orly Taitz, or the equally nutso Michele Bachmann, our local equivalent of embarrassingly wacko. Orly... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• In the End, You Always Pay the Piper

  Yesterday's events in Moore, Oklahoma are not the genesis of this post.  It would be terribly insensitive to write about such happenings so soon after they... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• First Ad About Maryland's New Gun Laws from the Marylanders to Prevent Gun...

  This is the first ad from the Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence Education Fund, focusing on the effectiveness of the fingerprint licensing provision in... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Control Works

  In 1934, The National Firearms Act was passed which was aimed at regulating  machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, silencers, and other firearms used by... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• RED ALERT ~ Adam Kokesh Armed March on Washington SCAM

  I have to admit some curiosity about what might be the motive for Adam Kokesh's March on Washington, DC.  It seems he was once a War Protestor who managed to ge... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Obama 3; GOP 0

  

  Obama's approval ratings went UP, from the Gallop poll on Monday to the Gallop poll on Saturday; his disapproval ratings went DOWN from Monday to Saturday. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• You Have a Problem If Barack Obama is a Muslim.

  Not a question, but a statement since the Constitution that some people claim to respect and all that says (Article VI): The Senators and Representatives... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It's Time to Put the GO in GOP: Not Governing, Not Being Ethical, Not Being...

  I think it is a fair guess that this is going to backfire on the right quite explosively.Thanks to ericlews for collecting some of the examples here, at the... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Armed Forces Day!

  

  Thank you to my co-bloggers; one for serving in our armed forces, the other for serving in an allied armed forces.Yesterday, my co-blogger Laci did some... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Hypocrisy, Malice, Dishonesty, Irrelevance

  

  We've had the right wing made up controversy about Benghazi. We've had the largely right wing made up controversy over the IRS. We've had the largely right... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP, a Patten in Contradiction

  

  GOP cuts funding for security - including Benghazi. GOP CONTINUES to refuse to fund adequate security, but hold witch hunt show trials over their feigned... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP - the Facts Are Not Their Friends. AGAIN Is LYING a Family Value, Or is...

  

  And now the GOP is running away as fast as they can back-pedal from their smear attack. Not only are the facts NOT their friends, they are doubly now their... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Now That You've Tried the Second Amendment--let's See How You Do on the Rest of...

  

  And how would YOU do on this test? Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY