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• Gun Bill Will Get A Vote In The Senate

  

  Likely that a modified version of bill will now pass Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead

  

  Last Monday, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died at the age of 87. Since then the right-wing in this country has hailed her as a hero, and a... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teen Pregnancy

  

  There are 365,000 births to teen mothers (age 15 to 19) each year in this country -- and nearly 67,000 of them are second, third, or fourth births to the same... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Agreement On Watered-Down Senate Gun Bill

  

  The picture above is of one of the memorials erected after the Newtown shooting massacre. I show it here again just to remind everyone what the gun bill... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Is Trusted Least To Fix The Economy

  

  The Republicans haven't been very popular lately. Even though they talk of rebranding themselves, they continue to follow the same old failed policies, and... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Women's Pay Reflects Their Lack Of Equality

  

  Tuesday (April 9th) was "Equal Pay Day" -- the day that marks the date that the average woman has made as much as the average man made last year. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Helping The Rich To Get Richer

  

  The Republican Party was aghast when the Democrats tried to do away with just part of the billions of dollars in subsidies to the "Big Oil" companies. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Still Denying Global Climate Change

  

  As we grow ever nearer to the tipping point (the point at which action will not prevent global disasters) on global climate change (commonly called global... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Senate Votes Tomorrow On Gun Filibuster

  

  When the new gun bills emerged from the Senate Judiciary Committee a couple of weeks ago, four GOP senators (Cruz, Rubio, Lee, Paul) announced they would... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Share It Now Or Lose It Later

  

  The rich lost some money in the Bush recession, but most of them didn't get hurt too bad -- and they recovered quickly. They are now making more money than ever... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Labor Is As Important As Capital

  

  There is a lot of truth in this statement by Justice Louis Brandeis. Without unions, the employer-worker relationship is a one-sided one -- without all the powe... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Don't Expect Congress To Give Back

  

  (Image above is from the website called InlandPolitics.com.) Recently a new series of drastic cuts to all government discretionary programs went into effect... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Taxes Are Too Low For Rich & Corporations

  

  The Republicans love to tell Americans that the U.S. government is taxing the rich people to death, and has the highest tax rates in the developed world,... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Molly Ivins Story

  

  Regular readers of this blog will probably know that I am a great fan of the inimitable writer and political humorist Molly Ivins. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• An Excellent Question

  

  The argument of the NRA and all their right-wing lackeys is that the more guns there are in circulation, the safer the American people will be. That argument ha... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cuban Embargo Makes No Sense

  

  The picture above shows American singer/musicians Beyonce and Jay-Z on the balcony of their hotel room in Havana, Cuba. And it has some Republicans in Congress... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Latest Empty Threat From Harry Reid

  

  Well, Majority Leader Harry Reid is mad again, and threatening to take action against Republican obstructionism. This time he's upset because the Republicans ar... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Weird Things Some Americans Believe

  

  (The image above is from The Atlantic Wire.) Americans seem to love conspiracy theories, some really wacky ones. Public Policy Polling did a survey of some of... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Rising Tide For Marijuana Legalization

  

  The chart above (from Talking Points Memo) is a combination of many polls since 1995. It should come as no surprise that since that time the support for same-se... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chained CPI -- Stealing From Seniors

  

  The Republicans have never liked Social Security. They voted against it when it was proposed, and they have tried to get rid of it several times since then (... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY