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• Teabagger Logic

  

  This is the kind of thinking that is rampant among teabaggers. They ignore all the help they have received from the government, but get incensed when they see... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NRA - A Terrorist's Best Friend

  

  Unless you've been living under a rock somewhere, you have to know that the attempt to close the loopholes in the background checks for gun buyers died in the... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cesar Chavez Freeway ?

  

  Could there soon be a 10 mile stretch of freeway running through the heart of Fort Worth renamed in honor of human rights activist Cesar Chavez? That's what... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fundamentalism

  

  Ms. Nasreen is absolutely right. Just eliminating the fundamentalists will accomplish nothing. Because soon, that religion will just produce another crop of... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suspects Caught & The Road To Justice Begins

  

  The men pictured above are Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It took the combined police agencies of the federal, state, and local... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Notes On Disaster In West, Texas

  

  The search and rescue efforts in West (the site of the fertilizer plant explosion) has nearly been completed, and the death toll stands at 14 -- many of them... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Leonard Peltier Should Be Freed

  

  The man pictured above is Leonard Peltier. He was one of the leaders of the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s, when he was unjustly convicted for the... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NRA Wins Round 1 - Gun Bill Shelved

  

  The proposed gun legislation in the Senate is now officially dead. Yesterday Majority Leader Reid withdrew the bill (at least for now), because it had become... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Wants More Even Wealth Distribution

  

  (Illustration above is from the blog Not Buying Anything.) There is no doubt that the distribution of wealth in the United States has gotten out of whack. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Selfish & Hypocritical Texas Senators

  

  There is little doubt that Texas has two of the worst (and most hypocritical) senators in this nation. After demanding federal disaster relief for both the... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kids And Sex/Guns

  

  This is the kind of reasoning the right-wing fundamentalists do (if it can be called reasoning at all). They are terrified that teaching high school students th... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tragedy Strikes Small Texas City

  

  We haven't even recovered from the tragedy in Boston, when another one hits -- this time in the small city of West, Texas. As firefighters were fighting a... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republicans Effectively Kill Senate Gun Bill

  

  (This cartoon is by John Branch at branchtoon.com.) I thought this might happen, and now it has. The Republican Party has effectively killed any hope of... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Texas "Miracle" Is An Unmitigated Disaster

  

  The national Republican Party has called Texas an economic "miracle". That's because the Republicans have had a stranglehold on the state government in Texas fo... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Has Sen. Collins Read The Constitution ?

  

  Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) is usually thought of in the mainstream media as a "moderate" Republican. That's because every now and then (but not too often)... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Random Thoughts On Boston

  

  Just a couple of things I've been thinking: * Patton Oswalt, in the comment above, is exactly right. There are far more good people in this world than evil... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Venezuela Stays The Course

  

  President Hugo Chavez was extremely popular in Venezuela, and I feared that after his death that country might once again be seized by right-wing forces -- who... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Popularity Of Background Checks For Gun Buyers

  

  The other day President Obama remarked about the extraordinary popularity of a law requiring background checks for gun buyers, asking when was the last time... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Much More ?

  

  The real question is how much more of this crap from the Republicans are Americans going to put up with. They destroyed the economy, and now they block any... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• It IS A Terrorist Act

  

  By now, you have to know about the tragedy that was perpetrated by some evil person (or persons) in Boston. As the annual Boston Marathon was winding down, two... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY