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• Government Is Abusing The Patriot Act

  

  Right after the 9/11 attacks on this country, Americans were terrified of terrorists. And the Bush administration used that fear to gain far-reaching new... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Real Reason For Our Budget Deficit

  

  The Republicans would like for Americans to think that we have a large budget deficit because the poorest Americans (along with children, the elderly, and the... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tax Law Favors Corporations

  

  The corporations, and their congressional lackeys in the Republican Party, want Americans to think that they are being taxed unfairly and too much. That is... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Income & Wealth Inequality Will Get Worse

  

  These three charts tell us a lot about what has happened in this country since World War II. Note in the top chart that income grew pretty much equally from... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rubio Backs Away From Immigration Reform

  

  A few weeks ago, it looked like there might be a chance for immigration reform. In the Senate, a bipartisan bill was worked out by a few senators from both... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Misplaced "Drug War" Priorities

  

  The United States continues to fill its prisons with people who use marijuana -- 88% of them for possession only. And this is a drug that kills no one, is not... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• You Have Power

  

  I agree with Alice Walker. You have power, no matter who you are or how insignificant you may think you are. Remember, every bit of progress was started with th... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Safety Was Never Reason For Making Marijuana Illegal

  

  Those statistics may be pretty shocking to some (since marijuana use among Blacks is no higher than use among Whites), but they are not unexpected for those of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Older Americans' Attitudes Are Improving

  

  I wrote a post a few days ago on how the moral attitudes of all Americans are becoming more liberal and accepting. When I was a youngster, all of the things... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party's Position On Student Loans

  

  As you may have heard, the loans for college students to get their education are fixing to double -- from 3.4% to 6.8%. This is a ridiculous and unnecessary jus... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Considering The Whole Picture

  

  Thetruth is that the Obama administration has not had nearly as many attacks on diplomatic targets as occurred during the years of the Bush administration. Of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republicans Are Losing The Young Voters

  

  (The above cartoon logo for the GOP is by Lalo Alcaraz at laloalcarez.com.) I have posted before about the poor showing the Republican Party had among young... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Supreme Court Upholds Police Taking DNA Swabs From Those Arrested

  

  In more than half of the states in the U.S., when a person is arrested they are given a check swab to collect DNA at the same time they are fingerprinted and... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Health Care System Is Still Broken

  

  If you listen to the Republicans, they will tell you that our health care system is not broken. In fact, they say, we have the greatest health care system in th... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Portugal Shows How To Deal With Drugs

  

  The United States has spent well over a trillion dollars in waging a "war on drugs", and we have filled our prisons with mostly non-violent drug offenders. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Google Tries To Do Right, But Court Says No

  

  Google is one of the largest and most powerful internet companies, and because of that they get a lot of criticism from many people -- and some of that criticis... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, POLITICS, SOCIETY, TECH

• The Meaning Of Equality Has Changed

  

  Some of you may think that the picture above is rather blasphemous, since the men in it gave us this country and our Constitution. But it is the truth. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Intolerance Indicates Doubt

  

  “No one would burn a man alive for a demonstrable truth. Hence, no matter what their proponents believe, the Inquisition, the Crusades and the Jihad tend to... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Competence Of Obama Campaign

  

  I have written before about how the polls were all over the place before the 2012 election. Some of them even had the election as a dead heat, or gave the... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• First Permanent Atheist Monument On Government Property

  

  Last year, a christian group installed a 6-ton granite monument featuring the 10 Commandments on county property in front of the courthouse in Bradford County,... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY