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• Economic Rules Favor Corporations

  

  I wish it wasn't true, but I do believe our government favors corporations over people. This is mainly due to the Republicans, who have somehow convinced too... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• First Gun Bill To Get Committee Vote

  

  It looks like the first new gun bill may make it out of a senate committee on Thursday. That is the date a Senate Judiciary Committee vote is scheduled for a... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Marijuana Is Medicine

  

  The federal government wants Americans to believe that there is no medical use for marijuana. That is a lie! They keep telling that lie because they must justif... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP's "Minority Problem" Includes Asians

  

  Nobody expected the GOP to get many African-American votes in the last election -- and they didn't. In fact, African-Americans have been loyal Democratic... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cutting Taxes Does NOT Promote Growth

  

  I have used this graphic (from Center for American Progress) before, but it bears repeating. That's because the Republicans keep repeating their mantra that... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Creators Of Debt

  

  That sounds like a great idea -- going after the people who are most responsible for our debt. And that would be the corporations (and Wall Street banks) who... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Teen Pregnancy Down (In Some States)

  

  It looks like Texas no longer leads the nation in the number of teen pregnancies (although I think it still is number one in the number of second pregnancies... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Congressional GOP Cares Only For Rich

  

  President Obama has now signed the order putting the sequester cuts into effect, as he was ordered to do by the bill passed by Congress (on mainly Republican... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• All Citizens Are "Entitled" To Vote

  

  It was very disappointing to hear Justice Scalia refer to the Voting Rights Act as "a racial entitlement". The idea that a Supreme Court justice could be so... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Low-Tax Myth

  

  The Republicans have a lot of myths about taxes and economics. They like to say that raising taxes hurts job creation. That myth has been exposed by numerous... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• An Environmental Mistake

  

  It's good to finally see someone in the mainstream media finally taking a sensible position on the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline. That pipeline is an... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Texas Had A Birthday Yesterday

  

  Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of the Republic of Texas (March 2, 1836). The yellow area on the map shows what Texas looked like as a country. It... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sun Worship

  

  (Image found on the blog of Yellowdog Granny.) What a novel concept -- worshipping something that has been proven to actually exist! Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The GOP Gets What It Wanted - Huge Cuts

  

  Well, Republican refusal to consider any new revenue by closing loopholes in tax laws for the rich has insured that the so-called "sequestration" cuts will... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Increased Desire For Stricter Gun Laws

  

  A majority of Americans have been in favor of stricter restrictions on guns for a few years now -- but it was a small majority. According to a poll done in... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Proud To Be Conservative? - Really?

  

  Conservatives won't like this graphic, but if they are honest they'll have to admit that the "conservative" officials they have elected are supporting these... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• VAWA Passes As House GOP Caves

  

  In the last election, the Republican Party did not do well with women voters, losing that demographic by a significant margin. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Gun In The Home Increases The Danger

  

  (The cartoon above is by Steve Sack in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.) Back in the early 1990s the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was conducting a study of... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Is Losing The Spending Debate

  

  The Republican Party knows they are out of step with the American public on many issues, including abortion, same-sex marriage, immigration reform, job creation... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Theft Is Theft No Matter Who Does It

  

  Does it really matter to the ordinary person whether most of the country's wealth and income is taken (stolen) by organized crime or by Wall Street bankers and... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY