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• Drones And American Morality

  

  Unless you've been living under a rock somewhere, you know that the United States uses drones (remotely-piloted aircraft) to attack persons considered to be an... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Right-Wing Gun Lies (Israel/Switzerland)

  

  The right-wing has been spreading a lot of lies to avoid any new gun restrictions at all. I think they know that most Americans want background checks on all... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bernie Speaks Out On "Grand Bargain"

  

  In my opinion, Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is one of the two best senators in this country (with the other being Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts). Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Inequality Is Not An Accident

  

  This is very true. It's no accident that the rich have been able to hog most of America's wealth. It is the result of years of Republican politics -- where... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Oops! Forgot My Seventh Blogiversary

  

  Well, this is embarrassing. This blog turned seven years old over a week ago -- on March 16th. And for the first time I forgot to mark the occasion on that date. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Raising Minimum Wage - Important For All

  

  Raising the minimum wage is an issue that affects all Americans -- even those currently making more than the minimum wage (because it would put an upward... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The War On Drugs - A Monumental Failure

  

  There is probably no more spectacular failure of a government program than the "War on Drugs". Since the early 1970s, the federal government has spent well... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A New Reason For Republicans To Worry

  

  It is widely known by now that the Republicans had some problems in the electorate in the last election -- problems that look like they could cost the party eve... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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