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• Our Failed Drug Policy

  

  We have already wasted more than $1 trillion on the War on Drugs -- and it has been an utter failure. Why does our government keep following the same failed... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Marriage Is A Civil Right

  

  The argument in this country over same sex marriage is viewed differently by different groups. The right-wing fundamentalists say it is a religious rite, and... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Exxon Won't Have To Pay For Clean-Up

  

  The picture above shows a tiny portion of the oil spill in Arkansas. It is from a pipeline owned and operated by Exxon -- and that company admits that... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Problem

  

  America has a problem, in that while it trumpets equal rights it does not extend those equal rights to all American citizens (especially homosexuals). Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Values

  

  Isn't it strange that the people who claim the loudest to be christians act in the most un-christian way? Their Jesus proclaimed that helping the poor, feeding... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Educating For A Minimum Wage Job ?

  

  When the Bush recession hit this country, and millions of jobs disappeared, a lot of Americans opted to get more education instead of trying to find work in an... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 12 Texas Executions Set For Next 4 Months

  

  Texas has long been the most blood-thirsty state in the union, but even though they continued to lead the nation in executions, the number of executions... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• To Big To Fail/Jail = Too Big To Exist

  

  I bring you another article written by the best senator in America -- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). This article was written for The Huffington Post, and... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Great Is Our Sin

  

  The United States is still the richest nation on Earth. There is more than enough money to wipe out poverty. But our capitalist system is by design set up to... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Not Serious About Hispanic Outreach

  

  (The above cartoon was found at guanabee.com.) After their disastrous showing in the 2012 elections (where they lost the White House by several million votes,... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Arkansas Spill Highlights Pipeline Danger

  

  The right-wing Republicans in Congress have once again sold out to corporate interests -- this time to the Big Oil corporations. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Guns Aren't A Magic Self-Defense Cure

  

  About two months ago, Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot and killed as he walked from his car to the Courthouse in Kaufman County, Texas (which... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Life

  

  We humans like to think we are the most important thing that ever happened. The truth is that we are just another animal, albeit a thinking one, that the Earth... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Killing Off The Poor For Votes And Profit

  

  The map above shows the sad plight of poor people in America -- people who have no health insurance and cannot afford to get the preventive care that would... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Remembering A Hero

  

  Today marks the birthday of a true American hero -- Cesar Chavez. Mr. Chavez was born on March 31, 1927. No one fought harder for the poor, the downtrodden,... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Most & Least Religious Metropolitan Areas

  

  As christians gather to celebrate the Easter Bunny (and look for the eggs he/she has hidden), the good folks at the Gallup Poll have released their latest... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP - Hurt Poor & Elderly To Help Rich

  

  The Republicans would have us believe that this country is in serious financial trouble with the current budget deficit (which they caused after inheriting a... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Opposed To Deporting Immigrants

  

  The following charts are from the recent survey on immigration reform by the Pew Research Center (taken between March 13th and 17th of 1,501 nationwide adults -... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gun Deaths Are An Epidemic In The U.S.

  

  Guns death top 30,000 each year in the United States (31,076 in 2010). About 35% of those deaths are homicides, while about 62% are suicides and the remaining 3... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tradition ?

  

  Unfortunately, this is true all over the world -- including the United States. Far too many people think the oppression of women is just the way things are... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY