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• Supreme Court Upholds Strict Gun Laws

  

  The state of New York has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. They require a background check on people wanting to buy guns, have banned the... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Economy & Jobs Still Most Important Issues

  

  The image above is from the latest Gallup Poll (taken between April 4th and 7th of a random nationwide sample of 1,005 adults -- with a margin of error of 4... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Prison State Of America

  

  I believe this is probably true, and if it is, then our own prisons would surely be a serious indictment against this country. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Leadership Gives In To Teabaggers

  

  (The image above is by Nikahang Kosar at roozonline.com.) The Republican Party national leadership did an assessment of their party after their poor showing in... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Very Early View Of 2016 Primaries

  

  I know its much too early to put much stock in presidential polls for 2016. After all, that's about 3 years from now. But political junkies like myself just... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Socialism

  

  They Republicans like to brag that they are against socialism, but that is not really true. They just don't want real people (the poor and disadvantaged, the... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Gun Deaths Keep Mounting Up

  

  On December 14th of last year, 26 people were gunned down at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- twenty children and six teachers. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Test Of Religious Knowledge

  

  The United States is one of the most religious nations, although the number on non-religious persons is growing. According to the Pew Research Center, about 6... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Church Businesses Should Be Taxed

  

  Christ Church Pentecostal of Nashville is a large church -- with over 2,000 members and a property valued at $2 million. As with all churches (and other... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religion As A Weapon

  

  Religion doesn't hurt anything? Is that a sick joke? Of course it does. Religion has been responsible for more wars, torture, and hurting of human beings than... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sensible Ideas To Cut The Budget

  

  Recently the Republicans, by their refusal to compromise on a reasonable budget, forced the sequestration cuts on Americans -- cuts that mainly fell on the... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Congressional Approval Still Very Low

  

  The above chart shows the results of the most recent Gallup Poll on approval of the current Congress. The poll was taken between April 4th and 7th of a random... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Is GOP Opposing U.N. Arms Treaty ?

  

  The arms treaty recently passed by the United Nations was a hard-fought victory for human rights and world peace. It will keep arms from going to countries... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hispanics Want Change - Not Tokenism

  

  (The cartoon above is by Mike Luckovich in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.) The national Republican leadership got a wake up call last November when their... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gun Bill Will Get A Vote In The Senate

  

  Likely that a modified version of bill will now pass Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead

  

  Last Monday, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died at the age of 87. Since then the right-wing in this country has hailed her as a hero, and a... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teen Pregnancy

  

  There are 365,000 births to teen mothers (age 15 to 19) each year in this country -- and nearly 67,000 of them are second, third, or fourth births to the same... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Agreement On Watered-Down Senate Gun Bill

  

  The picture above is of one of the memorials erected after the Newtown shooting massacre. I show it here again just to remind everyone what the gun bill... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Is Trusted Least To Fix The Economy

  

  The Republicans haven't been very popular lately. Even though they talk of rebranding themselves, they continue to follow the same old failed policies, and... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Women's Pay Reflects Their Lack Of Equality

  

  Tuesday (April 9th) was "Equal Pay Day" -- the day that marks the date that the average woman has made as much as the average man made last year. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY