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• The Real Small Business Problem

  

  This picture (which I got from Facebook) contains some hidden truth -- that many people (especially the teabaggers) want to blame President Obama for the... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Economy Depends On Well Paid Workers

  

  With the help of the Republican Party, Big Business seems determined to bust unions, depress wages, share none of the increase in productivity with workers,... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religiosity In America

  

  There is an element of christian fundamentalists in this country who still like to claim this is a christian country. They would even like to change the... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Remembering Che Guevara

  

  The lady in the picture above is Dr. Aleida Guevara. She is the daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara -- a true revolutionary who battled for the betterment of his... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bertrand Russell On Religion

  

  The following two paragraphs are from a speech given in 1927 by Bertrand Russell (pictured above) entitled "Why I Am Not A Christian". Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. Has Always Been A Secular Nation

  

  Those fundamentalists who claim the United States was founded to be a christian nation are denying history. The Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the Senate in 179... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A GOP Rep Lies About Minimum Wage

  

  The congressional Republicans nearly had a stroke the other night when President Obama said he wanted to raise the minimum wage to $9. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Strange Bedfellows

  

  The picture above is of "hemp" plants. They are more commonly called marijuana (or cannabis) plants -- and all varieties are against the law. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• On Both Sides Of The Fence

  

  This is something I have never understood about right-wingers. They do not trust the government, and yet they want to increase the military power of the same... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rise In Minimum Wage Benefits All

  

  It's no secret that the current minimum wage (about $7.25 an hour) is about as low as it has been in the history of the wage. It would take a minimum wage of... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democratic Donor Says Hillary Will Run

  

  The picture above shows Hillary Clinton swearing in Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis as the American ambassador to Hungary (in January of 2010). The gentleman in th... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Unions Protect Workers

  

  Too many Americans have bought into the corporate propaganda that unions are not needed in modern America. They think they can actually bargain on a one-to-one... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Obstruction Is Alive And Well

  

  Majority Leader Harry Reid has a right to be mad -- at himself. At the beginning of the 112th Congress, Reid let himself be hoodwinked by Minority Leader Mitch... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ted Cruz - The New Joe McCarthy ?

  

  Texas has had some embarrassing senators -- from John Tower and Kay Bailey Hutchinson to its current senior senator, John Cornyn. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Dumbing-Down Of The SOTU

  

  The picture above is of President James Madison. When The Guardian newspaper applied the Flesch-Kincaid readability test to all of the State of the Union... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• State of the Union: Obama Focuses on Gun Violence

  

  President Obama gave his State of the Union speech last night. It was long, and in my opinion, not one of his better speeches. You can read the text of his... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Public Trusts Obama More Than GOP

  

  The charts above were made from information taken from a new poll done by Quinnipiac University. The poll was done between January 30th and February 4th of 1,77... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Senate Passes VAWA (Again)

  

  Yesterday, the United States Senate again passed a bill to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) -- and they did it by a large margin (78 to 22). Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• VAWA Should Be Passed

  

  Domestic Abuse is our national shame -- and the failure of congressional Republicans to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) just compounds that... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Government Workers Are Necessary

  

  If you listen to congressional Republicans, you might get the impression that government workers are some kind of evil luxury that just sucks up tax dollars... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY