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• 2014 Starts Gender Fairness In Insurance

  

  This is just one more inequity that was fixed by the passage of Obamacare. Currently, private insurance companies charge women higher premiums for the same... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 6 Million Children Will Die In 2013

  

  Shouldn't we be at least a little bit ashamed about this? We can spend more than $1.6 billion on a presidential campaign in this country (and when other... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Per Capita GDP

  

  The economic pundits would like for us to believe the recession is over. After all the corporations are making record-breaking profits and Wall Street is passin... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• "Right To Work" Is Wrong For Workers

  

  Republicans are now trying to push the so-called "right to work" laws to be passed in more states. Right now Michigan is in the vanguard of this push, but... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Homelessness

  

  Outside of the number of people experiencing food insecurity in this country, perhaps the most shameful thing is the number of homeless people. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Food Stamps

  

  The Republicans want to cut the amount of money the federal government spends on food stamps (and free lunches for poor school children). Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Backs Obama On Immigration Reform

  

  As the last election and a multitude of polls have shown, the Republicans are on the wrong end of a lot of issues -- at least as far as the majority of voters... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Profits And Taxes

  

  The Republicans want Americans to believe that corporations are struggling, and a primary reason for that struggling is because they are being forced to pay an... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 7,240 Hate Crime Offenses In U.S. In 2011

  

  In a free and diverse nation, a nation populated primarily by immigrants from around the world (and their descendants), hate crimes are a particularly... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tax Plan Won't Affect Small Businesses

  

  The argument that Republicans have been trying to put forth in defending the tax cuts for the top 2% is that it would hurt small businesses. Of course, that's... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chavez Returns To Cuba For Third Surgery

  

  It's now looking like President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela may be losing his battle with cancer. Chavez recently won another term as president in Venezuela's... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Last 11 Year's Growth In Support For Same-Sex Marriage Has Been Huge

  The charts below are from The Business Insider. They are from a study done by the Pew Research Center (released at the end of April this year). Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Study Says Fox Viewers Not Very Bright

  (Image is from the blog called To Be Free.)If you've ever thought that the sheep who get all their information from watching Fox News couldn't be very smart,... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Can Rand Paul Really Be This Dumb ?

  I knew Rand Paul was far from the brightest bulb on the Republican tree, but I'm starting to think he's the bulb that's completely burned out. Just look at his... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Decline Of Religion In The U.S.

  The above figures are derived from a massive Gallup Poll conducted between January 2nd and November 30th of this year of 326,721 adults (18 and older) chosen... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Wall Street Declares Class War On Elderly

  A few days ago Wall Street honcho Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs) went to Congress and said that there must be cuts made to Medicare and Social Security. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bolivian Minister Not Afraid To Tell The Truth

  Instead of taking action to stop global climate change (commonly called global warming), politicians across the globe have instead used the environmental... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Unemployment Rate Drops In November

  The Labor Department released the unemployment figures for November yesterday, and it showed that the rate dropped slightly again -- by about 0.2%. The... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• There Is No Bottom To The GOP Barrel

  (The wonderful graphic above is from the website for the Altamonte Springs Advisory Board for the Disabled.)Many people (including me) had believed that the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Free State Or Police State ?

  Americans love to call their country the "land of the free", but considering the information in the graphic above that might well be a huge exaggeration. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY