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• American Public Wants To Protect The Environment

  

  The congressional Republicans have made it very clear that they are willing to sacrifice the environment to protect giant corporations (especially the huge... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Approval -- President Vs. Congressional Leaders

  

  These approval ratings for the congressional leaders and President Obama are from the normally Republican-friendly Rasmussen Poll. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• No Improvement In Congressional Job Approval

  

  The voters haven't liked the 113th Congress for a while now -- believing they are more interested in arguing and ideology than in compromising for the good of... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Texas Democratic Party Needs New Leadership

  

  It seems that the current party leadership is no better than past leadership -- mistakenly believing that progressives can't win in Texas (and encouraging... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. House Votes To Protect Medical Marijuana

  

  In spite of federal government denials and propaganda, it has been known for many centuries that marijuana is an effective treatment for many medical conditions. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Europe Is Doing Better At Creating Jobs Than The U.S.

  

  The caricature on the left (by DonkeyHotey) is of Paul Krugman -- winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, and columnist for the New York Times. In a recent NY... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• I Got Slapped Down By The Texas Democratic Party

  

  The Democratic Party Convention in Texas will be held on June 26 through 28 in Dallas, and as I have for a while now, I requested press credentials from the... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republicans Are Outraged At Obama - Again

  

  Republicans say they are outraged with President Obama (although it seems like they live in a permanent state of outrage over the president). Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Presidential Preferences In Oregon

  

  As Public Policy Polling goes from state to state, testing the current state preferences for president, I have been bringing you those surveys. The latest is... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Immigration - Then And Now

  

  I found these charts from the Pew Research Center to be interesting. They show the largest immigrant populations in each state, comparing those populations in... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obamacare Repeal Is Fading As An Election Issue

  

  The House Republicans have stopped voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) right now, and some Republicans are now talking about keeping it and... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gun Ownership Is NOT Increasing In The United States

  

  (Cartoon image above is by Jen Sorensen at jensorensen.com.) As all of us have seen, there has recently been a spate of individuals carrying guns openly into... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party Praises New Effort To Ban Nuclear Weapons

  

  The Green Party of the United States supports the renewed effort by most of the world's nations to ban nuclear weapons -- for all countries. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cruz Wins RLC Straw Poll In New Orleans

  

  Good news for Democrats. It's still looking like the Republicans want to nominate a right-wing extremist candidate in 2016 -- a candidate with no hope of... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Another Shameful Statistic For The United States

  

  The Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an organization containing 34 countries -- with many of them, including the United States,... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kerry Trashes His Liberal Persona By Attacking Snowden

  

  Secretary of State John Kerry has a proud liberal past -- from his involvement with the anti-war movement as a decorated veteran to his service for years in... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Rapidly Growing Acceptance Of The LGBT Community

  

  American attitudes toward the LGBT community is changing rapidly. While they once had to stay "in the closet" just to survive, they are now being accepted by... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teabaggers Won In Texas (But It Was Years Ago)

  

  (This cartoon image is by Nick Anderson in the Houston Chronicle.) The runoff primary in Texas was concluded last Tuesday (the 27th), and the major media is... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Knows Income Inequality Hurts The U.S. Economy

  

  The Republicans still cling to their failed "trickle-down" economic policy -- even though it has resulted in a huge wealth and income gap in the United States... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rove's Attack On Hillary's Health Was A Political Blunder

  

  Karl Rove was once hailed as a brilliant political strategist by his fellow Republicans. That was because he successfully engineered the election of George... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY