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• Proposed Shield Law Is A Fraudulent Fix

  

  There are several vital freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- the right to religious freedom, the right to free speech, and the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Murder Rate Lowest In A Century

  

  Thanks largely to television news (where "if it bleeds, it leads"), many in the United States think that violent crime is going up -- and more murders are... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Prosperity Is In Women's Equality/Education

  

  The lady pictured above is journalist Christiane Amanpour. She has brought us the truth from wars and disasters around the world, and now has her own CNN show... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Scary Checklist

  

  Unfortunately, I do count 14 out of 14 for the United States. Don't you? And I get the distinct impression that the Republicans are proud of that, since they... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New Immigrants Have Fewer Christians

  

  I have written before about how the United States is becoming less christian. Polls have shown that each generation is producing more people with no religious... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Reason For Growing Support For Legalizing Same-Sex Marriages

  

  Poll after poll has shown there is now majority support in the United States for legalizing same-sex marriage. Even in bright-red states like Texas, there is... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Plan B Should Be Available For Any Age

  

  A couple of weeks ago, a federal judge in New York ordered that the Plan B contraceptive (commonly called the "morning-after pill") should be available... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Over Half Of U.S. Households Have An Inadequate Income

  

  Both of the above charts were made using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The top chart shows what has happened to the median income in this country -- with th... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Uses "Scandals" To Hide Obstruction

  

  (Political Cartoon above is by Jim Morin in The Miami Herald.) Much has been made of the supposed "scandals" of the Obama administration recently, especially... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• This Is How Low The GOP Has Sunk

  

  This is just pathetic -- that at least some Republican senators would vote against the wishes of around 90% of the American public (and insuring that more... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree That Global Warming Is Real And Is Caused By...

  

  The fossil fuel energy companies, and their paid lackeys (congressional Republicans), have been repeating the same lie for years now -- that scientists... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suicide Rate Rising For Working-Age Adults

  

  (The image above is a sculpture in Barcelona's Poblenou Cemetery. It was found at the website Kuriositas.) There is a disturbing new report from the Center for... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Romney Advisor Says Hillary Can't Win Democratic Party Nomination

  

  As we know now, Mitt Romney's advisors weren't living in the real world before last November's election. And their confidence even affected candidate Romney --... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cruz Can Be Bough Cheap

  

  It's obvious that Ted Cruz, the McCarthy wannabe from Texas, still hasn't figured things out in Washington. It takes six figures or more to buy most senators,... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Making A Bad Situation Even Worse

  

  (The above image is from the website HubPages.) The other day I wrote a post on America's poor children. Around 23.1% of the children in the United States... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cable News Regressing On Diversity

  

  With each passing year, the United States becomes a more diverse nation -- with minorities becoming a larger percentage of our population (and whites becoming... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Is Sexual Assault OK In Military ?

  

  There is no doubt that the "good old boy" network is alive and well in our military. We learned recently that sexual assaults are growing in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Moral Political War

  

  Call it a "class war" if you want, but I call it what it really is -- a fight for economic justice. America wasn't established to make the rich richer. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Child Poverty Is Commonplace In The U.S.

  

  This chart from UNICEF should shame every single American. We live in the richest nation in the world, and yet have nearly the highest child poverty rate (23.1%... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Support For Equality Growing In The U.S.

  

  The graph and chart above are from the recent Gallup Poll (conducted between May 2nd and 7th of 1,535 randomly chosen nationwide adults -- with a margin of erro... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY