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• Domestic Violence And Guns Don't Mix - And A Better Background Check Law Could...

  

  There are a few facts that are beyond debate. That women in the United States are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hillary Looks Good Against The GOP Field In Colorado

  

  This information is from a Public Policy Polling survey of 568 registered voters in Colorado (including 255 GOP primary voters) done between March 13th and 16th... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Senate Democrats Ready To Play Hardball Politics

  

  (This caricature of the major political party symbols is by DonkeyHotey.) It looks like I may have underestimated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada). Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Majority In Colorado Still Back Legal Marijuana

  

  The charts in this post were made from a Public Policy Polling survey that was done between March 13th and 16th of 568 registered voters in Colorado, with a... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Still Prefers Broadcast News To Cable News

  

  The Pew Research Center has released its yearly look at the State of the News Media. It's a fairly comprehensive look at all different types of news media -- TV... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• More Verification That Americans Want To Keep Obamacare

  

  All of the charts in this post were made from information provided in the new Kaiser Foundation Health Tracking Poll. The survey was done between March 11th... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Age Doesn't Look Any Better Than Race For The GOP

  

  Yesterday I wrote a post on race and political party preference. It showed that while Republicans have a 9.5 point advantage over the Democrats among Whites,... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Women Oppose A Business Exemption On Religious Grounds To Providing A Health Pla...

  

  This chart was made from information in a Hart Research Associates Poll released on March 24th. The survey queried 1,004 women voters between the age of 18 and... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Humorous (?) Petition

  

  (The image above is from the right-wing website thecommonsenseshow.com.) The White House has a website (petitions.whitehouse.gov) where any citizen can create... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Political Party Preferences By Race

  

  This information is from past and present Gallup Polls (between 1995 and 2013) -- with each years poll containing at least 18,000 nationwide adults. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bernie Lays It On The Line

  

  (This caricature of Senator Bernie Sanders is by the great DonkeyHotey.) Here is the latest missive from America's greatest senator -- Senator Bernie Sanders... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chris Christie Finds Himself Innocent

  

  (The cartoon image above is by Bill Day at cagle.com.) The first of several inquiries into whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered or knew of the... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Does Your Congressperson Smoke Marijuana ?

  

  These charts were made from information contained in a newly released YouGov Poll. The survey was taken on March 14th and 15th of a random nationwide sample of... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party Says Obama To Outspend Reagan On Nukes

  

  This article was written by Green Party Shadow Cabinet member Steve Breyman on March 17th: Barack Obama has outlined a nuclear weapon expansion plan that beats... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Believes The Rich Pay A Smaller Percentage Of Their Income In Taxes Than...

  

  The chart above was made from information contained in a new Rasmussen Poll. The survey was done on March 17th and 18th of a random nationwide sample of 1,000... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Americans Overwhelmingly Want Obamacare To Succeed

  

  With the 2014 election starting to heat up, politicians still seem to think the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will be an issue. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• East Texas City Rejects Ted Nugent

  

  Longview is an East Texas city of just over 80,000 inhabitants, and they have decided that musician, right-wing extremist, pedophile, and rabid Obama-hater Ted... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Belief In God Is Not A Requirement To Be A Moral Person

  

  This is a topic that has always irritated me a bit -- whether a person must believe in some god to be a moral person. Religious people like to think they have... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Who Benefits From Building The Keystone XL Pipeline ?

  

  (This image of the Koch brothers is from the website mediamatters.org.) The Republican right-wingers have been loudly beating the drum in support of building th... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Judge Tosses Out Michigan's Ban On Same-Sex Marriage

  

  (This image of Michigan draped in the LGBT Rainbow Flag is from Wikipedia Commons, where it was posted by Fry1989.) Late Friday U.S. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY