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• The Rich Are Not Job Creators

  

  The fellow pictured at the left in entrepreneur and investor Nick Hanauer. He is in the richest 1% of Americans. But like Warren Buffett, he understands... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• And The Killing Continues

  

  The image above is of the shooter (John Zawahri) in the latest mass shooting -- at Santa Monica College in California. The death toll this time was five -- but... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How It Used To Be

  

  If this is the picture of America that you like, and want to return to, then keep voting Republican and you will see it. They have always opposed social program... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Is Playing A Dangerous Electoral Game With Immigration Reform

  

  (The cartoon above is by Chad Lowe in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.) After the really poor showing of the GOP in the last election, some Republican leaders... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• If We Have A Critical Need To Drill For More Oil, Why Are We Exporting So Much O...

  

  For years now, we have been hearing from right-wing Republicans that we have a critical shortage of oil -- forcing us to depend on foreign countries for our... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrat Looks Strong In Massachusetts

  

  When the President appointed John Kerry to be Secretary of State, some people (including me) thought it might be an opportunity for the GOP to snatch Kerry's... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• No One Has Banned Prayer In School

  

  The fundamentalists can't seem to get it through their heads that no one, not the Supreme Court or anyone else, has banned prayer in school. Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Unemployment Rises As Austerity Kicks In

  

  The economy created 175,000 new jobs last month, and combined with the number returning to work (or getting increased hours), that means 319,000 more people wer... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• CIA Attacking Unknown Targets With Drones

  

  I have posted before about how the United States is misusing drones to attack people in countries we are not at war with -- and how many of the victims of... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Texas Politics In Graphs

  

  All these charts were made using information from the Texas Civic Health Index, which was composed by the University of Texas Annette Strauss Institute for Civi... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trickle-Down

  

  economics is nothing new, it seems. President Johnson tried to warn Americans about this vile plan of the Republicans more than 40 years ago. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Shouldn't College Be Affordable For All ?

  

  I was raised in a working class home. We had enough money to pay our bills and keep food on the table, but there wasn't anything left over for large expenses... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Government Is Abusing The Patriot Act

  

  Right after the 9/11 attacks on this country, Americans were terrified of terrorists. And the Bush administration used that fear to gain far-reaching new... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Real Reason For Our Budget Deficit

  

  The Republicans would like for Americans to think that we have a large budget deficit because the poorest Americans (along with children, the elderly, and the... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tax Law Favors Corporations

  

  The corporations, and their congressional lackeys in the Republican Party, want Americans to think that they are being taxed unfairly and too much. That is... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Income & Wealth Inequality Will Get Worse

  

  These three charts tell us a lot about what has happened in this country since World War II. Note in the top chart that income grew pretty much equally from... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rubio Backs Away From Immigration Reform

  

  A few weeks ago, it looked like there might be a chance for immigration reform. In the Senate, a bipartisan bill was worked out by a few senators from both... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Misplaced "Drug War" Priorities

  

  The United States continues to fill its prisons with people who use marijuana -- 88% of them for possession only. And this is a drug that kills no one, is not... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• You Have Power

  

  I agree with Alice Walker. You have power, no matter who you are or how insignificant you may think you are. Remember, every bit of progress was started with th... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Safety Was Never Reason For Making Marijuana Illegal

  

  Those statistics may be pretty shocking to some (since marijuana use among Blacks is no higher than use among Whites), but they are not unexpected for those of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY