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• 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

• Older Americans' Attitudes Are Improving

  

  I wrote a post a few days ago on how the moral attitudes of all Americans are becoming more liberal and accepting. When I was a youngster, all of the things... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Green Party's Position On Student Loans

  

  As you may have heard, the loans for college students to get their education are fixing to double -- from 3.4% to 6.8%. This is a ridiculous and unnecessary jus... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Considering The Whole Picture

  

  Thetruth is that the Obama administration has not had nearly as many attacks on diplomatic targets as occurred during the years of the Bush administration. Of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republicans Are Losing The Young Voters

  

  (The above cartoon logo for the GOP is by Lalo Alcaraz at laloalcarez.com.) I have posted before about the poor showing the Republican Party had among young... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Supreme Court Upholds Police Taking DNA Swabs From Those Arrested

  

  In more than half of the states in the U.S., when a person is arrested they are given a check swab to collect DNA at the same time they are fingerprinted and... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Health Care System Is Still Broken

  

  If you listen to the Republicans, they will tell you that our health care system is not broken. In fact, they say, we have the greatest health care system in th... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY