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• Is Integration Falling Apart In The United States ?

  

  I think it's a valid question to ask -- is America going back to the bad old days of segregation? Since the election of President Obama, the nation's first... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democratic Party Has 10 Point Higher Approval Than GOP

  

  The Republicans are still trying to float the argument that they will win the 2014 election because of the public's disapproval of President Obama -- and they... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Base Doesn't Respect It's Congressional Leaders

  

  The story we usually get from the mainstream media is that the ultra-right-wing teabaggers in the Republican Party have little respect for the congressional... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Willie And Kinky On The Radio Today

  

  (This photo of Willie and Kinky is from Kinky's Facebook page.) Willie Nelson and Kinky Friedman will be jointly giving interviews to a series of radio... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Minimum Wage - Demonstrations And Some Facts

  

  (This photo shows fast food workers in New York joining the demonstrations. It was found at the website Labor Notes.) Yesterday, thousands of fast food workers... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party Decries The FCC's Vote Against Net Neutrality

  

  The following message was posted yesterday by Green Party Shadow Cabinet member Kevin Zeese: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today voted to begin th... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Presidential Preference - North Carolina And Alaska

  

  I have been bringing you the results of surveys of Republicans in various states as to their preference for president in 2016. Now results have been reported... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can The House Of Representatives Be "Flipped" In 2014 ?

  

  The charts above were made from information in Gallup Polls taken in off-year elections. The previous polls were taken right before the elections, and the most... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Minority Population Distribution In The United States

  

  I found these charts very interesting, and I thought you might also. They were made by Randy Olson, and featured in The Atlantic. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Another State Falls In The March Toward Marriage Equality

  

  It's like a logjam has broken, and now there is a torrent of federal judges willing to recognize that the Fourteenth Amendment means what it says -- that all... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republican Officials Think It's OK For Poor Mothers To Die

  

  The Republicans like to say the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) wasn't necessary, because the United States has the best medical system in the world. And on... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Two More Senate Seats Look Tough For The GOP To Win

  

  Yesterday I posted about three senate seats the Republicans thought they could easily win on their road to taking over the U.S. Senate -- Arkansas, Kentucky, an... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Minimum Wage Is Shaping Up As A Bad Issue For GOP

  

  One more poll now shows that many more Americans want the minimum wage raised to $10.10 an hour than don't want that. This time it's the normally... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Virulent Anti-Obama Feeling In The GOP Is Racism

  

  Any person who objectively views the Republican response to the election of President Obama will have to admit that the GOP has never displayed such a virulent... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Voter Enthusiasm Is Down Sharply From The 2010 Level

  

  These charts were made from off-year election surveys done by the Gallup Poll -- the latest being done between April 24th and 30th of a nationwide sample of... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrats Are Doing Well In Southern Senate Races

  

  A few months ago the Republicans were ecstatic over their supposed chance to take over the Senate. But that chance depended on doing well in the states that... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Jobsanger Tops 2,000,000 Pageviews

  jobsanger 2000009 pageviews - 15719 posts, last published on May 12, 2014 Google / Blogger tells me that this blog passed the 2,000,000 mark last night shortly... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tyranny Is Still Tyranny - Whether From The Right Or Left

  

  (This cartoon is by Ben Garrison at bengarrison.com.) The United States is supposed to be a free country -- a country where each citizen has the same rights... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Majority Of Americans Oppose Repeal Of Obamacare

  

  The charts above were made from information contained in a new CNN / ORC Poll (taken between May 2nd and 4th of a random national sample of 1,008 adults, with... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Elizabeth Warren Speaks Out For American Women

  

  (This caricature of Senator Elizabeth Warren is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) sent the following letter to her... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY