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• It's Mothers Day!

  

  From all of us at Penigma, to all of you who are Moms, Happy Mothers Day. We celebrate you if you are a birth mom, an adoptive mom, a step-mom; however you... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Muddling the Middle

  Crossposted from Man with the Muckrake blog:Interesting quote of the day: by lacithedog From the FAIR blog: Where media define the "center" or the "middle" tell... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Let Us Connect the Dots for You, Conservatives - and Call You Out.

  

  This is clearly an effort to preemptively try to attack Hillary Clinton, not from patriotism, but in an effort to exploit a tragedy, including loss of life,... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Cross-posted from MN PP: Short and Sweet – Same Sex Marri...

  

  cross-posted from MN PP: Short and Sweet – Same sex marriage equality passes! by Dog Gone on May 9, 2013 What wonderful news, what an interesting debate. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Do Context and Rules of Construction Matter?

  On another blog, someone made the comment: You give us a link to statuatory interpretation, but fail to recognize that we're talking about the constitutional... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Same Sex Marriage in Minnesota Vote Scheduled for Today

  The conservative argument seems to come down to "God doesn't like the gay".What they really mean is conservatives don't like "the gay", so they claim to know... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• We Are Not Expendable Or Disposable; Having Sex Does Not Make Us So

  

  This week MSNBC host Chris Hayes did a series of interviews about the three women who were kidnapped, raped, and beaten for approximately a decade, in... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Know Your Neighbors, Know Your Friends, Do Not Be Silent

  It is coming out now that the daughter of one of the kidnappers was the best friend of the youngest of the three women victims in Cleveland, Ohio, and was the... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Essay Question on the Second Amendment:

  Please explain how a document which states as its purposes is to "form a more perfect Union...insure domestic Tranquility" (Preamble). Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Kidnapper Could Sue for Custody of His Victim's Child

  

  Cross-posted from MN Political RoundtableThree women who were kidnapped ten years ago were found recently when one of them escaped, along with a child belongin... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What is Wrong with This Country? This is Apparently Factual - and Terrible

  

  At the National Rifle Association Convention this week, RAW story picked up on one of the speakers advising attendees to keep guns in their children's bedrooms. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Because Amid Snow and Rain and Wind, We Should Have Some Fun on Fridays Spread...

  

  HONG KONG - MAY 02: Dutch conceptual artist, Florentijin Hofman's Floating duck sculpture called "Spreading Joy Around the World", is moved into Victoria Harbou... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Science Project, My Ass

  I read an oddly eclectic, even eccentric assortment of material, and always have. I first read about aluminum foil being used for making improvised explosives... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Control Works Our Legislators However Do Not Work for US - That Has to Change

  

  Thw two Boston bomber brothers had one hand gun between them, an illegal handgun that was most likely purchased in a neighboring state with lax gun control, or... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Illegal Guns and Gun Control and the Boston Bombers

  cross posted from MN Political Roundtable Illegal guns and the Boston Bombers (alleged) We’ve heard repeatedly from the gun-huggers that if we pass gun... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Criminal Religion

  

  Conservatives are not about liberty or freedom; conservatives are all about controlling your life. Their claims about 'smaller government' is code for wanting t... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Reality Check!

  The Atlantic came up with a piece titled Owning Guns Doesn't Preserve Freedom which basically backs up what I have been saying about personal guns protecting... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• That’s Mighty White of You, ‘Cock-Asians’ (the Right Wing’s Term)

  

  You can't make up the racist right-wing crazy that wants to repudiate the term Caucasian as a descriptive category for white people, as used by government... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Humanity and Liberty

  Some men and women in my life leave me awestruck. Some people find a way to move beyond their own personal grief, their own pain, to forgivenss. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It's Earth Day 2013

  

  The taxonomy name is Epicrates cenchria cenchria, the taxonomic name for it attributed to Linnaeus in 1758. This is a photo of a Brazilian rainbow boa;... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY