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Bill Cosby Is Found Guilty Of Sexual Assault
(This photo of Bill Cosby arriving for court on Wednesday is from NBC News.) Bill Cosby has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault in Morristown,... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Macron Politely Blasts Trump In Speech To Congress
(Photo of Macron addressing Congress is from The Daily Mail.) French President Macron visited the United States this week. He had hoped to change Donald... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Public Opinion Of The Possibility Of A Woman President
All of these charts use information from a new Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between April 22nd and 24th of a random national sample of 1,500 adults (includin... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The GOP Fear Of The 2018 Election Is Justified
Republicans are running scared of the 2018 congressional election, and that has resulted in a record number of them deciding to retire instead of running for... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Support For Trump/GOP Tax Law Remains Very Low
The Republicans were proud of themselves for passing their tax law, and they believed it would be the vehicle that saved them in the 2018 congressional... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Portrait Of A Real Hero
If you ever had any doubt as to what a real hero looks like, just look at the photo above of James Shaw, Jr. The photo above and the post below are both from... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Evangelicals Are Fighting A Losing Battle On LGBT Rights
Evangelicals continue their fight to be able to discriminate against the LGBT community. That's one of their reasons for supporting an obviously immoral man to... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Good News And Bad News In The 2018 Senate Races
The chart above is from talkingpointsmemo.com. It shows the campaign money situation in the most competitive U.S. Senate races in 2018 -- the money raised in th... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Anti-Refugee Sentiment Is Nothing New In The U.S.
This picture shows Jewish refugees aboard the ship "St. Louis" in 1939. They were fleeing from Nazi Germany, but were denied entrance into the United States... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Best Candidate Is NEVER A Republican
I have been voting for slightly over five decades now, and I can honestly say I have never voted for a Republican (and I never will). That statement shocks... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump Is Destroying The U.S. Reputation In Latin America
Why did Donald Trump decide to skip the Summit of the Americas recently, and send the vic-president instead. The charts above could be a big clue. Most of the... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
GOP Tax Law Claims Are Not Evidence-Based
(Photo from npr.org is by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images, and shows Republicans celebrating the passage of their new tax law.) The Republicans made a lot of... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Presidential Job Approval After 456 Days In Office
The chart above (using info from fivethirtyeight.com) shows each president's job approval after he had been in office for 456 days. It is an average of the poll... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
There Is An Anti-Incumbent Mood In The Country This Year
The chart above is from the Gallup Poll. It shows the feeling among the public at this time of the year regarding off-year elections for Congress from 1994 to... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Evangelicals Traded Religion For A Socio-Political Agenda
(Cartoon image is by Drew Sheneman in the New Jersey Star-Ledger.) Evangelism is defined as spreading the gospel of christianity. Read more
Posted on 22 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump Did Collude With Russia To Affect The 2016 Election
(Cartoon image is by Clay Bennett in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.) Donald Trump has repeatedly denied that he colluded with Russia to affect the outcome... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
More Evidence That A Blue Wave Is Forming
If someone suggested a couple of years ago (or even months) that a Democrat might be elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Arizona, they would have been... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
These 10 Charts Show Texas Is Changing
Texas is a red state. No Democrat has won a statewide office in more than two decades, and the Republicans have been able to easily sell their right-wing agenda... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Emma, Jaclyn, Cameron, Alex, And David
Time Magazine has published its list of the 100 most influential people in 2018, and making that list this year are five students from Parkland Florida... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Poll Shows O'Rourke Closing The Gap On Cruz In Texas
It's been over 20 years since a Democrat won a statewide race in Texas -- or even came close to winning. But if this poll is correct, that has changed. Read more
Posted on 20 April 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY