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• The Best Days Behind Us Or Still To Come For The U.S. ?

  

  I have to admit this survey bothers me just a bit. This Rasmussen Poll was taken on January 13th and 14th of 1,000 likely nationwide voters (with a margin of... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• LBJ On Poverty

  

  Lyndon Johnson is one of the few presidents in our modern history to come from poverty -- and he's the last one to seriously try to do something about poverty i... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Texas (Or Any Other State) A GOP "Economic Miracle" ?

  

  Republicans have been claiming that their economic policies are best for this country, and they point to the state of Texas as evidence of that -- calling the... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporations Donations Are Controlling Congress

  

  It should come as no secret to anyone paying attention to what's going on in Congress that very little is being done to protect workers and consumers, while... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Poetry

  

  Regular readers of this blog (and amazingly, there are some) will know that I am a fan of the poetry of my friend Brian McLaughlin (who blogs at Beej's Poetry... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 POLITICS, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• GOP's War On Women

  

  The GOP doesn't want to admit it, but they are waging a war on women -- and they have been doing it for quite a while now. They don't understand why women aren'... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Going To A Chained-CPI Would Be A Benefit Cut To S.S.

  

  The House has just passed a budget and sent it to the Senate -- and it looks like Social Security recipients have dodged a bullet this time. This budget does no... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Little Bit More Good News For Hillary

  

  Now that President Obama is in his second term, the question of whether this country would elect a minority to be our president has been emphatically answered. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• (Sort Of) Commandments of The Flying Spaghetti Monster

  

  Like other mythical gods, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is purported to have given some commandments to his noodle-loving followers. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Racist Myth Regarding African-American Fatherhood

  

  For a while now, there has been an idea permeating our society. It is that a lot of African-American men aren't good fathers -- that they are absent, and are no... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public's View Of Same-Sex Marriage Changing In Utah

  

  A couple of weeks ago, a federal judge ruled that Utah's ban on same-sex marriages violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution (which... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The American Public Is Moving Back Toward The Left

  

  For many years now, the American public has gone along with the Republicans and accepted their moving our government far to the right. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Marijuana And Taxes

  

  As much as politicians love taxes (regardless of what some GOP politicians may claim), I think it's amazing that they have passed up this opportunity for so lon... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Racist Roots Of Marijuana Prohibition

  

  The man in the picture above is Harry Anslinger. He was a racist. He was also the "father" of marijuana prohibition in the United States. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• In Spite Of All The GOP Assurances, Christie Was Hurt By The Bridge-Closing...

  

  Ever since the scandal broke about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie closing lanes of the George Washington Bridge (and creating traffic jams) to retaliate... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Media Is Ignoring The Problem Of Climate Change

  

  The world's climate is changing, and it is due to warming caused by the overuse of fossil fuels (that pumps huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the air). Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Wendy's Campaign Train Starting To Jump The Tracks ?

  

  (The image above of Wendy Davis is from The Huffington Post, who says they got it from Facebook. The photographer is unknown.) Yesterday I posted about Wendy... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Says It Is Bad That Most Of Congress Are Millionaires

  

  The other day I wrote a post about the wealth of the current Congress. For the first time in our history, a majority of those in Congress are millionaires... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• More Proof Of Changing Views On Marijuana

  

  These charts are from a YouGov Poll taken on January 2nd and 3rd of this year of 1,000 randomly chosen nationwide adults, and they illustrate the changing... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Being Poor In The U.S. Is Expensive (And Exhausting)

  

  (This image of Barbara Ehrenreich, found at Wikipedia, is by David Shankbone.) One of the foremost voices speaking out for the working poor in this country is... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY