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• Clinton Leads Possible GOP Candidates In Recent Polls

  

  (This caricature Of Hillary Clinton is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) One of my favorite websites is that of RealClearPolitics. They keep track of all the... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Investors Back The GOP - But Do Better Under Democrats

  

  (The image above, from the Huffington Post, is of Wall Street on October 29th of 1929 as it suffered a disastrous crash during the presidency of Republican... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republican Whining Over Cuba Makes No Sense

  

  (This image of Cuba is from the website cubaninsider.) As expected, the congressional Republicans have gone ballistic over President Obama's effort to restore... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Two New Polls Show No Favorite Among GOP For 2016

  

  I bring you the Washington Post / ABC News Poll and the Fox News Poll on presidential preferences for 2016 -- not because they reflect any change, but because... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Capitalists Are Hogging The Gains From Rising Productivity

  

  The chart above (from the Global Wage Report 2014/2015) shows a stark reality of what is happening to worker wages -- not just in the United States, but in the... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obama Shows Political Courage On Cuban Question

  

  President Obama started his presidency looking weak. That is because he is by nature a person who believes in compromise and bipartisan governing. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Congressional Approval Remains Incredibly Low

  

  The Gallup Poll has released its latest survey on public approval for Congress -- and it is a dismal one. The survey was done between December 8th and 11th of... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Since The GOP Likes A Sales Tax So Much . . .

  

  The Republicans have made it very clear that they hate the income tax -- especially a progressive income tax that taxes the rich at a larger percentage than... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Two New Polls Have Hillary Clinton Looking Good

  

  The charts above are from a new Monmouth University Poll done between December 10th and 14th of a random national sample of 1,008 adults. It has a margin of... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is An Apology Needed? - Absolutely Not!

  

  Many people have been demonstrating against the police killings of far too many unarmed Black men (and children), and the police aren't happy about that (even... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Must We Be The "Big Boss" For The Entire World ?

  

  I made the chart above from a recent Rasmussen Poll -- taken on December 11th and 12th of a random national sample of 1,000 likely voters, with a margin of erro... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The "Balanced Budget Amendment" - The Stupid Republican Idea That Just Won't...

  

  (The image above was found at the website Bend OR Bust.) In the last few days, the ugly specter of the "balanced budget amendment" has risen its nasty head... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Warren Makes It Very Clear - She's Not Running

  

  There is an element in the Democratic Party that is more concerned with political ideology than in winning the 2016 election -- and keeping an extremist... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• State Rep. Wants To Decriminalize Marijuana In Texas

  

  As usual, the state of Texas is still trying to avoid establishing a more sensible position on marijuana. Even though several states have legalized the... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• When Will It Be Enough To Act ?

  

  It has not been quite two years since the tragedy in Newtown (Connecticut), and nothing has been done to address that kind of school violence. And since then,... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sam Houston

  

  The picture above is of Sam Houston -- hero of the Texas war for independence and the first president of the Republic of Texas. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party Says Torture Ended U.S. "Exceptionalism"

  

  Many Americans like to think the United States is unique among nations -- a beacon of democracy, justice and human rights that gives it an exceptional place in... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Recession Hurt Minorities More Than Whites In U.S.

  

  These charts come from a new report compiled by the Pew Research Center (using the Survey of Consumer Finances public-use data). Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is This The Season For Santa Or Jesus (Or Neither) ?

  

  (This image is from the Photobucket page of Matthew Yankush.) Chart is from a Rasmussen Poll -- done on December 8th and 9th of a random national sample of 1,00... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• You Don't Need To Believe In God To Be A Good American

  

  Fundamentalist christians are a strange lot (as are fundamentalists of any religion). Many of them believe a person cannot be patriotic -- cannot be a good... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY