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• U.S. Is Still The Richest Nation In The World - But Its Middle Class Is Falling...

  

  There was a time when the United States was not only the richest nation in the world, but it also had the richest middle class in the world. But the... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Americans' Financial Worries Should Favor Democrats

  

  The graph above shows the financial worries of the American people from 2001 through the current year. These are the worries that register the highest percentag... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Facts For Texas Voters About Leticia Van De Putte

  

  Most people may still want to know more about the Democratic candidate for governor (Wendy Davis), but at least most Texans have heard of her. That may not be... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Global Warming Propaganda Trumping Science

  

  In their surveys on the global warming debate, the Gallup Poll has determined that their are three major groups in the United States -- the cool skeptics, the... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A College Football Players' Union Is A Bad Idea

  

  (This image of the Northwestern football team is from Bloomberg.com.) One of the major stories recent is the effort by some to create a football players union... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2014 FOOTBALL, POLITICS, SOCIETY, SPORTS

• Public Remains Angry With Congress

  

  The charts above were made from information in a recent Rasmussen Poll, which was conducted on April 15th and 16th of 1,000 nationwide likely voters (with a... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Mad Dash Toward Oligarchy

  

  A few days ago, Bill Moyers (pictured) had Paul Krugman as a guest on his show. They discussed the book "Capita; in the Twenty-First Century", and how it applie... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. Should Do Away With The Obsolete Electoral College

  

  The United States sells itself as the bastion of true democracy. And in the governmental systems it has imposed on other countries (like Iraq and Afghanistan),... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• It's Time To Normalize Relations With Cuba

  

  (This map of Cuba is from embassyworld.com.) I have written before about how I think U.S. policy toward Cuba is stupid and should be changed. The Cuban people... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party - Stop The White-Washing Of White Terrorism

  

  It is an indisputable fact that most of the terrorism happening in the United States is done by home-grown white terrorists. But the government and the media ar... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religion

  

  All religions claim to have the truth -- the revelation from god (or gods) as to how us humans should live our lives (and worship the supernatural). Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Zombie Day

  

  (The image above was found on the pages of Godless Liberals.) It's Zombie Day again -- the day that millions of supposedly rational people put logic aside and... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is It Moral ?

  

  This is one of the two days of the year that christians, many of whom ignore their religion's teachings most of the time, turn their thoughts to their "savior"... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public's Confidence In The President & Party Congressional Leaders On The Economy

  

  The accepted "wisdom" of Beltway political pundits is that while the public may agree with the Democrats on some issues, they prefer the Republicans when it... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The GOP Has A Simplistic & Mean-Spirited View Of Poverty

  

  The Republicans in Congress have for decades now pursued economic policies that ignore the poor and favor the wealthy. And this current crop of Republican... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 2016 Presidential Preference Of Texas Republicans

  

  As they have done in other states they've polled, the folks at Public Policy Polling questioned registered Republican voters (294 of them with a margin of... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Insurance Purchases Through Obamacare Top 8 Million

  

  When it comes to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), things just keep getting worse for the Republicans. They predicted that only sick people would purchase... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stations Carrying Limbaugh Doing Poorly In The Ratings

  

  (This caricature of Rush Limbaugh is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) A few years ago, Rush Limbaugh was the king of talk radio and talk radio was very popular.... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Issues That Could Turn Texas Blue

  

  A couple of days ago, I posted about the new Public Policy Polling survey on Texas (taken between April 10th and 13th of 559 registered Texas voters, with a... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bernie Blasts The Extremism Of The Koch-Owned GOP

  

  Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has never been one to mince words. He always tells the truth in plain unvarnished language that can be understood by anyone.... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY