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• On Nature, the Planet and What We Need to Do

  

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  Posted on 20 May 2013 SOCIETY

• What's This? GOOD News Coming out of Jefferson City?

  Holy cow. It CAN happen: Clean Energy 4, Koch Brothers 0 MAY 20, 2013 The Koch brothers got more bad news over the weekend as the Missouri legislature joined th... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 SOCIETY

• This Will Be Making Some Right Wing Heads Asplode Today

  The very famously business-friendly Forbes magazine, no less, writes the following: Economically, Could Obama Be America's Best President? From the link: "... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "Hell to Pay" in Kansas and the Plains States

  

  The New York Times ran an important article today (one more), this time on the Great Plains overall but Kansas, in specific, and how our water aquifers below... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 SOCIETY

• It Takes Our Senator McCaskill from Missouri to Set Things Straight in Washington

  

  Perhaps you heard about this? It seems certain executives in Washington would still be getting bonuses--large ones--even now, what with this sequestration in... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 SOCIETY

• On Where We Are Now and Why We Need Labor Unions

  From today's New York Times: The Great Divide The 1 Percent Are Only Half the Problem One reason the left plays down the growing skills-based gap is that it... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 SOCIETY

• On Malcolm X Birthday

  

  "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such, I'm for... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 SOCIETY

• "Those People Just Hate America"

  Could we stop saying the other political side "Hates America"? Please? It's nonsense. It's untrue. It's patently untrue. It's downright stupid. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Hey! I Got a GREAT IDEA!

  LET'S FLY TO CITY X TO SEE THEIR NEW AIRPORT!!! Said no one. Ever. So flights are down, period, the airlines are shrinking, paying for a new airport is... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 SOCIETY

• What Sam Brownback Wants for Kansas--and Kansans

  

  Most Kansans do not pay much in income tax, because most Kansans have a low to middle range income to begin with. Most Kansans pay their share of taxes through... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Notes on a Large Powerball Jackpot Prize

  Literally that, notes on tonight's near-record Powerball jackpot prize drawing: 1) If you were one of 175,223,510 people (you can't imagine that many), standing... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Looks Like Another Great Documentary Coming

  From IMDb: Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainte... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• How You Can Help Save KCI

  We will have volunteers out this weekend at the Cosentinos and/or Price Chopper in Brookside collecting signatures if you would like to sign. If you would like... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day--on an Open Mind

  

  Links: Quote by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• A Story the Star Needs to Do

  

  I read in the Kansas City Star today that a local soldier died in Afghanistan this past Wednesday: Liberty soldier drowns in Afghanistan A soldier who grew up i... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Here's Your Real IRS Scandal, Ladies and Gentlemen

  That phony, bogus, trumped-up IRS scandal that's going around right now by the Republicans and "All Who Hate Obama"? That's just what it is, phony. George W. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• A Story the Star Needs to Do

  I read in the Kansas City Star today that a local soldier died in Afghanistan this past Wednesday: Liberty soldier drowns in Afghanistan May 17 BY RICK PLUM... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 SOCIETY

• The Tea Party, the Right Wing and All That Hypocrisy

  

  You don't suppose they'll see their hypocrisy eventually, do you? Fortunately, there is some good news, too, right now: http://www.washingtonpost. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Think There's Nothing You (we?) Can Do to Fight Poverty?

  If you think there's nothing you or I--we--can do to fight poverty, think again. Here's an even dozen: This Week in Poverty: Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Garmin on List of "Most Profitable Products"

  

  24/7 Wall St. ranked the top America’s Most Profitable Products in the nation and our own, local Garmin is in the right in the thick of it: 7. Garmin nüvi... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY