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• 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

• Could Minnesota Get This Lucky ?

  

  (The above caricature of Michele Bachmann was found on the website Ain't No God.) As you probably know by now, Minnesota has passed a new law legalizing same-se... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gun Problem ?

  

  That's a pretty amazing statistic, considering the huge number of Americans that have been killed in all of our wars (Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Attempt To Smear Hillary Is Failing

  

  Karl Rove and his desperate minions have decided that the only chance they would have to defeat a Hillary Clinton candidacy in 2016 is to smear her good name... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Demographics That Scare GOP Leaders

  

  (Image is from the website of Paul Vallely.) There used to be a time when the white vote ruled in American elections, and during those times the Republicans... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Minnesota Is 12th State To Legalize Equality

  

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  Posted on 14 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Background Checks - For People, Not Guns

  

  The NRA and others on the right-wing love to say that guns don't kill people, people kill people. Why then did they oppose the background checks for people... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY