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• Public Seeing Through Government Lies About Marijuana

  

  When the Marijuana Tax Act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1969 (in Leary vs. United States), the government replaced it with the... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Does The GOP Really Have The Advantage In November ?

  

  I'm still hearing a lot of Washington and New York political pundits saying the November election is a foregone conclusion -- the Republicans will win and keep... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Wendy Will Be In Amarillo Today !

  

  For those of you who want to meet Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor in the 2014 election, today is your opportunity. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Media Still Won't Report The Truth About Obamacare

  

  For quite a while now the main story the media wants to report is that American oppose the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) -- leaving the impression that a... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Little Bit More Good News For Hillary Supporters

  

  There's no doubt who the favorite is for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president -- Hillary Clinton. Poll after poll has shown she is the prohibitive... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party Responses To McCutcheon Vs. FEC Decision

  

  A couple of days ago the Supreme Court made another terrible decision regarding campaign law. Still holding that money is speech (as they did in Citizens... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Money Equals Speech Is A Democracy Killing Prospect

  

  The image to the left (from the excellent blog called Democratic Blog News) sums up my opinion nicely -- money is not speech. If money was speech, then we... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public's Views On Energy More Reasonable Than Leaders

  

  Right-wingers, like the "Witch of Wasilla", have tried to convince Americans that the way out of our energy problems was to just increase production of the... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Phobias

  

  I depart from my normal posting about politics and economics just because I found this little poll interesting -- and I thought you might also. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Private Insurance Sales Top 7 Million Under Obamacare

  

  I said yesterday in a post that I thought the chances were good that private insurance purchases through the state and federal exchanges established by the... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ryan Budget Plan Is An Exercise In Insanity

  

  (The cartoon image above is by R.J. Matson in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) picked the perfect day to unveil his latest budget... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hit The Koch Brothers Where It Hurts - In The Pocketbook

  

  (This caricature of the right-wing extremist Koch brothers is by DonkeyHotey.) David and Charles Koch are multi-billionaires, and they think they can use that... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Newest Numbers Verify The Huge Success Of Obamacare

  

  The Republicans have done their best to try and make sure the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a failure. They have lied about the program, pronounced it to b... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Says More Guns Would Make Them Feel Less Safe

  

  The NRA, and the elected officials (mostly Republicans) who carry their water, have tried to spread the argument that more guns in the hands of more people mean... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bernie Asks -- Democracy Or Oligarchy ?

  

  This article by Senator Bernie Sanders appeared in The Huffington Post on March 31st. In it, he lays out the difference between what progressives want and what... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mexican-American Studies Should Be In All Texas Schools

  

  In the coming board meeting, the Texas State Board of Education is going to be discussing the development of new courses to be taught in Texas schools. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Support For The Death Penalty Is Shrinking In The U.S.

  

  There is a bit of good news for those of us who oppose the death penalty. It seems that support for giving criminals the death penalty is shrinking in the Unite... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New Mexico Voters Support Hillary For President

  

  New Mexico has a Republican governor, but that is an anomaly. It has become one of the most reliably "blue" states in the nation. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. Green Party Says The World's Two Biggest Dangers (War & Environmental...

  

  Perhaps the two biggest evils that organized societies have invented are the "twin evils" of war and environmental destruction. These evils, either... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Repeal The Patriot Act And Stop Spying On U.S. Citizens

  

  (The cartoon image above is by Nate Beeler in The Columbus Dispatch.) "Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY