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• No One Wants To Take Your Guns

  

  The right-wing has gone completely overboard about guns. We must be clear -- no one, not even President Obama (who has been the brunt of many lies about propose... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Senate Budget - An Exercise In Futility

  

  Friday night (and well into Saturday morning) the United States Senate completed a marathon session. But at nearly 5 o'clock in the morning they accomplished... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Is A Progressive ?

  

  (The above image is by Lewis Merritt at the site of Fashion Magazine.) Anyone who has read this blog will know that my politics are a bit left of center. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Belief In A Bottom-Up Universe

  

  A few days ago my fellow atheist blogger, vorjack at unreasonable faith, took at stab at explaining why he is an atheist (in about 200 words). He called his pos... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Still Committing Political Suicide

  

  The Republicans in Congress seem determined to commit political suicide. If it was not bad enough that they kill jobs creation bills that most people want (and... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Medicare "Vouchers" Dies An Ugly Death

  

  In the last Congress, Paul Ryan came up with an odious idea. He wanted to dismantle the Medicare program, and replace it with a voucher program that would put... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Really Terrifies GOP Insiders

  

  That would be Hillary Clinton. There are very few, if any, knowledgeable Republican political operatives who think any of the top Republican candidates could... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corporate Lobbyists

  

  This is the main thing that is wrong with our government -- lobbyists have too much power. It has gotten so bad that almost no politician will take a stand unti... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Public Disconnect About Obamacare

  

  The two charts above are from a new health survey by the Kaiser Foundation. It was conducted between March 5th and 10th of a nationwide random sample of 1,204... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A "Baby Picture" Of The Universe

  

  This new picture (artificially-colored) is a picture of the heat distribution of our universe when it was very young -- about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pew Survey On Same-Sex Marriage

  

  I have been posting in the last few days on polls which show the extraordinary growth in support of equal rights for the LGBT community -- including same-sex... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Education Must Be Funded To Improve

  

  This could be a clue to why this country is falling behind other countries in education. We have cut more funds for education than almost any developed... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ryan's Approval Has Dropped Like A Rock

  

  Last August, just after he was chosen as Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan's approval rate among the general public stood at 50% (a pretty good figure),... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Incredibly Gutless Harry Reid

  

  The above graphic shows that gun laws do work. The NRA and their Republican flunkies in Congress have said that gun laws don't work, but note above that the... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Dying Soldier's Letter To Bush/Cheney

  

  The open letter below was written by Tomas Young. Mr. Young is a patriotic American who joined the U.S. Army two days after the 9/11 tragedy. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Racist Right-Wing Militias

  

  This graphic from the Southern Poverty Law Center is disturbing, and more than a little frightening. It shows the real danger this country is facing -- an... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Won't Learn From War Mistakes

  

  It is now ten years after the ridiculous invasion and occupation of Iraq. Over 4,000 Americans were killed and many more thousands wounded (not to mention the... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Equal Rights Is A Growing Idea

  

  The battle for equal rights (not special rights) for the LGBT community has been a long and hard one. As recently as 2004, only 9 years ago, only about 38% of... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Media Should Be Ashamed

  

  I have tried to stay out of this story. It just seemed too obvious that this girl was raped and justice had to be done for her. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 MEDIA, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Birth Control

  

  There are a lot of misconceptions about the new directive from President Obama that gives women with health insurance free birth control. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE, POLITICS, SOCIETY