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• 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

• Helping The Rich To Get Richer

  

  The Republican Party was aghast when the Democrats tried to do away with just part of the billions of dollars in subsidies to the "Big Oil" companies. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Still Denying Global Climate Change

  

  As we grow ever nearer to the tipping point (the point at which action will not prevent global disasters) on global climate change (commonly called global... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Senate Votes Tomorrow On Gun Filibuster

  

  When the new gun bills emerged from the Senate Judiciary Committee a couple of weeks ago, four GOP senators (Cruz, Rubio, Lee, Paul) announced they would... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Share It Now Or Lose It Later

  

  The rich lost some money in the Bush recession, but most of them didn't get hurt too bad -- and they recovered quickly. They are now making more money than ever... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Labor Is As Important As Capital

  

  There is a lot of truth in this statement by Justice Louis Brandeis. Without unions, the employer-worker relationship is a one-sided one -- without all the powe... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Don't Expect Congress To Give Back

  

  (Image above is from the website called InlandPolitics.com.) Recently a new series of drastic cuts to all government discretionary programs went into effect... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Taxes Are Too Low For Rich & Corporations

  

  The Republicans love to tell Americans that the U.S. government is taxing the rich people to death, and has the highest tax rates in the developed world,... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY