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An "Old Army Vet" and liberal, qua liberal, with a passion for open inquiry in a neverending quest for truth unpoisoned by religious superstitions. Per Voltaire: "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."

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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 25, 2010
August 26, 1920 . . . If you like your freedoms, thank a liberal! Know what happened, 90 years ago? The 19th Amendment passed, and women secured a right they should never have been denied.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Don't let Republican games turn into Republican gains! How do Republicans propose setting the fiscal house more to order? By gutting Social Security, Medicare, and by adding a 2 percent sales tax that the least among us pay on food, not by closing a single loop hole the wealthy and the corporations enjoy.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 22, 2010
The 'CRITICAL' difference between private and public in public services They're there to make money and any way they can cut corners means they make more money." "In the public sector, the security of the prison is job one," he added. "This kind of security breach, that would just be a serious, major breakdown. That's not always the case with private companies.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 15, 2010
You can thank a liberal for your freedom There are "Angels in America". They're called liberals, and conservatives owe them a salute, and a debt of gratitude that can never be paid.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 14, 2010
My first run-ins with the damning illogic of the Right NOTICE: Rough sledding ahead. The effort is to be as honest as I can be, which for many may be a ride to tough to handle; language and verbal images employed accordingly.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 13, 2010
I'm looking for a word why the presumption the model is somehow by necessity, in every instance, that which ought to prevail? What should we call those who are blind to the all too obvious evidence there is no validity to the presumption the private, for-profit model is by necessity, in every instance superior to what the government can do?
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 10, 2010
My 8-10-2010 email to the White House SOME PRETTY ROUGH LANGUAGE AHEAD. But this 'progressive' has had it!
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 7, 2010
How wealthy we must be, to toss our kids into the pit ". . . the U.S., once the world's leader in percentage of young people with college degrees, has fallen to 12th among 36 developed nations."
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 5, 2010
While you were looking elsewhere, your church and the corporations were setting you up This past April, a highly conservative federal appeals court ruled against the Federal Communications Commission's right and authority to regulate Internet rates and practices. (Retrace to the beginning of the preceding sentence, and ponder as you proceed how your relatives' and neighbors' Republican leanings and votes will, not may, cost you money and the freedom to use the Internet!
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 1, 2010
I need some help here. Actually, we all do. "Opponents say that it could prevent smaller American companies from drilling offshore at all due to concerns about the cost of an accident." Let's pretend for a moment that we're all adults here.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Telling the facts isn't always the same as telling the truth. However this may seem as though it's about Shirley Sherrod, until a few days ago, the National Director for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and how she happened to be fired from that post, this is actually about us, and the way we use facts and how we respond to stories that include them. The watchword is "beware."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 18, 2010
Senator McConnell -- Ernie Kovacs' Percy Dovetonsils lives For a few years now I've had this recurring bout of deja vu: Where, just where have I seen Senate Minority Leader, Kentucky US Senator Mitch McConnell before?
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 15, 2010
Bet you don't know: the cost of a gallon of gas in your area 'm fully prepared to wager that you don't know, not even if you just returned from filling your tank this morning. Currently I'm in the Sacramento area where the per gallon prices range from $2.97.9 to above $3.15.9.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 6, 2010
I found out why we're neck deep in doo-doo In addition to the report of one person in the Detroit area perishing from hyperthermia, I learned that the Free Press stories that on July 5 garnered the most readership were, from No. 10 to the champion Numero Uno:
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 29, 2010
An important speech by Sen Franken to Constitutionalist Soc, PLEASE listen In his Al Franken manner, tersely outlines what has gone wrong, how justice is being -- as it has been -- hijacked by conservatives to serve ill ends. Franken's points are made with his typical droll, sometimes sarcastic humor. But the points are made.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 3, 2010
The "spill" . . . We've none but our friends to blame Absent voter support of the conservative tenets that have culminated in the wholly avoidable disasters we've witnessed, it is probable none would have occurred.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The gift Every Republican ad airing in the state is an effort to outdo his or her challenger on the basis by being "the true conservative," and not some "liberal," with "liberal" being employed as the most tawdry epithet in the English language.
(117 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 30, 2010
A few things have just got to be said. There exists no record that even one illegal alien ever took a job that belonged to an American. You can be the registered owner of your car. You can hold title to your house. No one owns a job.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 27, 2010
Breathing Republican fumes The Republican argument against raising the cap hinges on the incomprehensible proposal that by insisting a company bear full liability for damages it causes, it will squeeze out of the drilling business smaller companies that would not be able to pay for the damages they caused.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 10, 2010
The Mother Lode in the Upper Big Branch Mine Massey's Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine tragedy brings the core question conservatives ask us to ignore front and center: What role has government to play in the regulation of a society's otherwise private affairs?

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