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• The Texas House Votes To Kill The Lottery - But Finally Cooler Heads Prevail

  

  The Texas House had a moment of insanity yesterday. Led by freshmen Republican legislators, a motion to continue the Texas Lottery Commission was defeated in th... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NRA Betrays Its Members

  

  We need more honest gun owners to follow the lead of Mr. Busch -- many more. The NRA no longer represents gun owners, and hasn't for many years now. They may... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Stop CISPA

  

  I had several posts written for today, and had even posted them for a short while. But I have since learned that Anonymous has called for an internet blackout... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Extremism Is The Problem, Not Differences

  

  The bombers of the Boston marathon were islamic. That one fact is now touching off a new round of demonizing followers of islam and congressional Republicans an... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Disaster That Was Waiting To Happen

  

  By now, you've heard of the disaster in West, Texas -- where a fertilizer plant blew up, killing more than a dozen people (many of them first responders) and... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Huge Mistake For President Obama

  

  Readers of this blog will know that I was very disappointed when President Obama offered to give the Republicans what they want, by going to a cost-of-living... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teabagger Logic

  

  This is the kind of thinking that is rampant among teabaggers. They ignore all the help they have received from the government, but get incensed when they see... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NRA - A Terrorist's Best Friend

  

  Unless you've been living under a rock somewhere, you have to know that the attempt to close the loopholes in the background checks for gun buyers died in the... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cesar Chavez Freeway ?

  

  Could there soon be a 10 mile stretch of freeway running through the heart of Fort Worth renamed in honor of human rights activist Cesar Chavez? That's what... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fundamentalism

  

  Ms. Nasreen is absolutely right. Just eliminating the fundamentalists will accomplish nothing. Because soon, that religion will just produce another crop of... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suspects Caught & The Road To Justice Begins

  

  The men pictured above are Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It took the combined police agencies of the federal, state, and local... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Notes On Disaster In West, Texas

  

  The search and rescue efforts in West (the site of the fertilizer plant explosion) has nearly been completed, and the death toll stands at 14 -- many of them... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Leonard Peltier Should Be Freed

  

  The man pictured above is Leonard Peltier. He was one of the leaders of the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s, when he was unjustly convicted for the... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NRA Wins Round 1 - Gun Bill Shelved

  

  The proposed gun legislation in the Senate is now officially dead. Yesterday Majority Leader Reid withdrew the bill (at least for now), because it had become... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Wants More Even Wealth Distribution

  

  (Illustration above is from the blog Not Buying Anything.) There is no doubt that the distribution of wealth in the United States has gotten out of whack. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Selfish & Hypocritical Texas Senators

  

  There is little doubt that Texas has two of the worst (and most hypocritical) senators in this nation. After demanding federal disaster relief for both the... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kids And Sex/Guns

  

  This is the kind of reasoning the right-wing fundamentalists do (if it can be called reasoning at all). They are terrified that teaching high school students th... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tragedy Strikes Small Texas City

  

  We haven't even recovered from the tragedy in Boston, when another one hits -- this time in the small city of West, Texas. As firefighters were fighting a... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republicans Effectively Kill Senate Gun Bill

  

  (This cartoon is by John Branch at branchtoon.com.) I thought this might happen, and now it has. The Republican Party has effectively killed any hope of... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Texas "Miracle" Is An Unmitigated Disaster

  

  The national Republican Party has called Texas an economic "miracle". That's because the Republicans have had a stranglehold on the state government in Texas fo... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY