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• Raising The Minimum Wage Does NOT Cost Jobs

  

  (The cartoon above is by Nick Anderson in the Houston Chronicle.) There is no doubt that the current federal minimum wage of $7. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Most Americans Ignorant Of Their First Amendment Rights

  

  The First Amendment Center does a survey every year for a report on the First Amendment -- and this year's survey shows most Americans are embarrassingly... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrats Still Outnumber Republicans In The U.S.

  

  The charts above were made from information contained in AP-GfK surveys taken in the last year and a half. The latest AP-GfK Poll was done between May 16th and... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stage 4 Provides A Third Win For Marcel Kittel

  

  This profile of stage 4 makes it look more difficult than it actually was. While it has two category 4 climbs, they were not difficult enough to hurt the... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Don't Compound This Horrible Iraq Mistake

  

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  Posted on 09 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dueling (And Overly Wordy) Texas Political Platforms

  

  Last month the Republican and Democratic parties in Texas held their state conventions -- and one of the things they did at those conventions was to finish... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teabaggers Misunderstand America's Demographic Change

  

  I have written before about the demographic change that is happening in the United States. By the middle of this century (or earlier), Whites will cease to be... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kittel Gets His Second 2014 Tour Win In Stage 3

  

  Stage 3 of this year's Tour de France was expected to be a day for the sprinters, and that's just what it was. The 155 kilometer course from Cambridge to... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Can Anyone Think This Is Right ?

  

  Recent polls have shown that the American people are starting to realize that the Republicans have stacked the odds against them economically -- that they have... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Wendy Trying To Run Away From The National Party ?

  

  (This caricature of Wendy Davis is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) Texas Democrats held their state convention about a week ago (June 27th and 28th). Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stage 2 Presents An Early Test In This Year's Tour

  

  Normally, stage 2 of the Tour de France is a fairly flat and non-eventful race designed to let the sprinters show off their speed at the finish. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stop The Republican Effort To Damage Social Security

  

  (The image above was found at the website of strengthensocialsecurity.org.) The Republican Party has never liked Social Security. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Liberty And Justice For All ?

  

  On this Fourth of July weekend, I thought this Rasmussen Poll was interesting. They asked Americans if they thought the last line of the Pledge of Allegiance wa... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Employer-Provided Insurance Is Not As Good As You Think

  

  (This image is from the Tufts University School of Medicine website.) For a long time now many Americans have been deluded into believing employer-provided... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Tour Is Here Again !

  

  The Tour de France bicycle race is back. Stage 1 was run yesterday in England. It was a 190.5 kilometer race from Leeds to Harrogate. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mission Creep ?

  

  The picture above is a Department of Defense picture of one of the last U.S. military vehicles to leave Iraq in 2011. At the time, the American public was... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Aren't Davis And Abbott Talking About Abortion ?

  

  The Democratic Party in the United States supports a woman's right to choose whether she will get an abortion or not (with no interference from the state). The... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teabaggers Still Driving Republicans Out Of Their Party

  

  The photo above (from The Clarion-Ledger) is of Evan Alvarez. Mr. Alvarez was not only a member of the college Republicans at Mississippi State, but was the... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Happy Fourth of July !

  

  (This image of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was painted by Armand-Dumaresq in 1873, and has been hanging in the White House since the late... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. Unemployment Rate Drops To 6.1% In June

  

  The Labor Department has released its official unemployment statistics for June of 2014. And the good news is that the unemployment rate for the nation has... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY