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The Invention of Whiteness
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Brief History of Cuba & the West
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False Flag at the Capitol
It was staged - in the sense that it was planned, known, & allowed. Because the shock of the event would be used to convince the public -especially liberals- to give more tools to the security state and tech oligarchs to trample our rights, in the name of fighting the Bad People and keeping us safe
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Solution to the Storming of the Capitol
I've seen a lot of hypocrisy and finger-pointing, but very little on the side of solutions, aside from a never-ending tit-for-tat of mutual accusations of domestic terrorism, and increasing criminality of protest and dissent
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Actual History of #Russiagate
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Regime Change in Venezuela a Huge Mistake
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Last Excuse for US to Remain in Syria Evaporates
US-allied Kurds avoid massacre at hands of Turkey by handing territory in northern Syria - previously held by ISIS - over to Assad government
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King 45
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GOP Tax Plan is Class Warfare in Policy Form
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Billionaire Donor Threatens to Cut Democrat Funding
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Obama and Clinton Ruined the Democrat Party
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Former DNC Chair Brazile: 2016 Primary Rigged
While many book details were previously reported - and vehemently denied - Brazile reveals $10m Clinton deal brokered in August of 2015 to take control of DNC staffing, strategy, and finances
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Please, Arizons Cardinals: Sign Kapernick So I Can Watch Football Again
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Trump's Benghazi
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Corporate Media Utterly Fails Russia Story
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First, They Came for the Nazis...
Antifa, the McResistance, and the proper ways in which to figuratively punch a Nazi
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Democrats Must Stop Trying to Hurriedly Impeach Trump
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Trump Lying About Syria; Corporate Media Complicit
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Botched Yemen Raid Highlights Trump Incompetence
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Trump's Muslim Ban Irrational, Counter-Productive, Unconstitutional
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Women's March: Rights Men Have That Women Do Not
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Democrat Party is a Shambles; Refuse to Accept Responsibility
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Trump's Con Revealed with Carrier Deal
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Has Trump Already Chosen His Political Successor?
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Republicans to Kill Supreme Court if Hillary Wins
But we couldn't have Bernie Sanders because they were going to call him a Socialist.
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Roger Goodell is Terrible
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Rejecting Lesser-Evilism
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Hillary Fans Cold War Flames to Obfuscate Email Leaks
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What Happened to Our Media
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Hillary Clinton Will Win in a Landslide
Clinton is terrible. But Trump is a monster. His loss will be Mondale-esque. The Southern Strategy is obsolete. But the economic pain fueling his rise will outlast Trump.
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"Free" Country
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Hillary Underestimated Hatred of Corporations and Status Quo
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Flashing Lights Scarier than a Gun to the Head
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Kaepernick Kneels for Freedom & Justice
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Republicans Caught Disenfranchising Blacks, Trump Calls Election Rigged
Donald Trump is losing badly to Hillary Clinton in recent national and swing state polls. Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, he’s claiming that if he loses the election, it will be because the election was "rigged." He is calling for police...
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Fight for $15 - Until Robots Take Our Jobs & Necessitate Guaranteed Basic Income
America is reaching a boiling point. The Fight for $15 is us asking nicely. Given automation & globalization, guaranteed basic income will become necessary if we are to remain an economic superpower.
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US Approach to National Security Leaves Us Vulnerable
The United States has amassed the most powerful military force in the history of mankind. We spend roughly the same on our military as the rest of the world combined. Yet polls show that roughly half of Americans are unaware of our military might....
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Sorry Bernie, but I'm Still #NeverHillary
Closing out the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Senator Bernie Sanders gave a full-throated endorsement of Secretary Hillary Clinton for president. Though slightly abbreviated (a mere half-hour), Bernie gave his usual...
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The Trump Effect - White House or No
Now that Trump has proven us all wrong and won the Republican nomination for president, it’s time to seriously examine the repercussions of a Trump presidency. Unfortunately, he, perhaps more than any other candidate, is difficult to assess....
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Unrigging the System - Before Ballots become Pitch Forks
Working, poor, and young people throughout the West are on the verge of revolution - a Western Spring. This is manifest in vastly differing manners - from Trump, La Pen, & Farage, to Bernie, Trudeau, & Corbyn. But there is a shared frustration with...
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The Ten Best Running Backs Ever to Grace Planet Earth
Gale Sayers Awesome. Breath-taking. Poetry in motion. Record six touchdowns in a single game; record 22 rookie-year touchdowns. Most gifted and awe-inspiring runner with the football anyone has ever seen with human eyes. Suffered a devastating...
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Top Ten Quarterbacks of All Time
Sammy Baugh The original. Dreams of playing professional baseball diverted with high school knee injury which resulted in his scholarship being rescinded from Washington State. Finished fourth in Heisman voting at TCU, drafted 6th overall. Though...
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The Myth of Liberal Media Bias
Though an oft-repeated matter-of-fact for many a conservative, there is no such thing as liberal media bias. To the contrary, mainstream media is exceedingly, and disturbingly, conservative. Sure, perhaps even most individual talking-heads may...
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Brexit: Calamity or Opportunity?
Full disclosure, I don’t pay much mind to domestic politics of the United Kingdom (or England, or Britain…I know it has do with whether you include Wales or Scotland or something... I’m an arrogant American who doesn’t care enough to...
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Hey Liberals - Shut Up About the Terrorist Watch List & Gun Sales
I didn't care too much about gun safety/control before Sandy Hook. But the thought of those precious little… It just hurt. Charleston hurt. Orlando. They just keep coming. Larger numbers. More frequent. More horrific. More and more pain. And yet,...
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things
American anger reflected in 2016 election; how the American Dream was realized; how it was lost; and how we will get it back
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Et Tu, Elizabeth Warren?
Senator Elizabeth Warren has officially endorsed Secretary Hillary Clinton for president - a somber moment for Bernie Sanders supporters. I bought an ‘Elizabeth Warren for President 2016’ bumper sticker back in 2013. A professor at Harvard,...
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Nevada Debacle Emblematic of Sanders' Campaign
The debacle that was the 2016 Nevada Democratic Party convention perfectly sums up Bernie Sanders’ campaign. It wasn’t only that Hillary Clinton won. The entirety of mainstream media – from Rachel Maddow & Chris Hayes to Stephen Colbert &...
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Thank You, Donald Trump
If nothing else, he kept us from the nightmare President Ted Cruz scenario
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The Human Race toward Immortality & Extinction
Modern understanding of the vastness of spacetime provides added perspective to philosophers’ long-pondered dilemma regarding the meaning and relative significance of human existence. Not only are our own lives fleeting & fragile, but so too are...
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Trump - Normalizing Neo-Fascism
Donald Trump is both a megalomaniacal neo-fascist, and a feebly insecure invertebrate dripping with cowardice - who has somehow managed to stumble his way from pop-culture punch-line, to reality-TV pink-slip maven, to front-runner for the republican...
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Feeling the Bern
The obvious oppo research, with a stern rejoinder.
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Apple/FBI Squabble Concerns Anything but San Bernardino
The most compelling topics are those on which many of us disagree. Liberty & security; nuance & fear – we’re not very good at keeping a sober perspective. We’re easily distracted by shiny objects; easily moved by impulse and emotion. It is...
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Black Lives Matter & the War on Cops
There is no war on cops. Roughly one thousand people are killed by police every year in America (there’s currently no federal database). In contrast, about 100 cops (unfortunately) die on the job each year. Of those hundred unfortunate deaths,...
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The Many Tall Tales of Ben Carson
Ben Carson seems to have lost his mind. It’s no certainly no secret that the man speaks as though he were a lunatic, but the level of scrutiny applied to a leading presidential candidate seems to be breaking him. He has no voting record in any...
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Ben Carson, Loon
Lunatics reside within every culture. While the vast majority are relegated to the fringes of society, occasionally their lunacy is allowed to seep into, and find a foothold within, the political discourse. In such times, we have no choice but to...
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Who's Ready for Hillary?
Twenty-sixteen will hold the most significant presidential election in my lifetime. Of course, this claim is made every four years, and it’s rarely, if ever, true. While all presidencies are certainly relevant in their time, relatively few are...
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Pope Frank
The 266th Holy See, formerly Archbishop of Argentina Jorge Bergoglio, is the most unique of popes. Pope Francis is a rock star. He is the first to select the name Francis - after Saint Francis, who renounced wealth in order to live among the poor....
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Misconceptions, Misperceptions, Misquotes & Myths
Misquotes "Luke, I am your father." Actual Darth Vader quote is "No, I am your father." "May the force be with you." Generally attributed to Obi Wan Kenobi, who proclaimed that, "The force will be with you...always." Actually an Han Solo quote....
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Eff-you Populism of The Donald
While comedians are giddily chortling away at the prospects, I never thought I would feel compelled to scribble my thoughts on one Donald Trump. To be clear, The Donald is an abhorrent abscess, a bombastic buffoon, a cartoonish clown, who looks...
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Obama's War with ISIS
What does ISIS want, how did we get to this point, and what should we do?
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Capital Punishment: Why Everyone is Wrong
My tax dollars are used in all sorts ways with which I disagree, one of the more egregious is state-sanctioned, premeditated murder of fellow US citizens as a form of discipline. While the civilized world has largely shrugged off such barbaric...
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Humanitarian Crisis Compels Conservatives to Berate Child Refugees
If there was any question of how deeply the conservative party base hates minorities, we got a very good look at their ugliness in Murrieta, CA. In a scene reminiscent of Selma, Alabama, circa 1965, nativist conservatives came out in a xenophobic...
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GOP Advancing License to Discriminate Nationwide
On the desk of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer sits a bill that would give Arizonans a license to discriminate based upon "strongly held" religious beliefs. Given the strong reaction of the chamber of commerce, it is likely that Governor Brewer will...
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Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah! Congress Passes Clean Debt Ceiling Hike
"Zip-a-dee-doo-dah zip-a-dee-ay, my oh my what a wonderful day, plenty of sunshine coming my way..." The words of House Speaker John Boehner drew a chuckle as he exited the press corps Wednesday, after announcing that the House had passed a clean...
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Media Pushes Right-Wing Obamacare Talking Point
Obamacare will kill 2.3 million jobs! The CBO has released a report which has at long-last proven the conservative belief that Obamacare will kill jobs - this will surely be the death knell to Obamacare. Fortunately, none of this is true -...
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Obama Pushing Through Terrible TPP
Thank god for Harry Reid! Lord knows I've taken the man to task numerous times in the past - but for once he is standing up for the good of the people. CC 2.0 Brian Finifter via flickr With the corporate media having fallen asleep at the...
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Obama Offers NSA Reform, Sort of
By Tbc (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons "Our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power, it depends on the law to constrain those in power" - President Obama, in his speech on Friday. Indeed. While Obama...
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GOP Block Unemployment in Effort to Punish the Poor
As of December 28, 1.3 million people were booted from Unemployment Insurance. By the end of 2014, 5 million will have been treated in kind. The CBO has estimated that over 200,000 jobs and 0.2% GDP would be created by the end of 2014, should UI be...
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Obama & Iran
By The Official White House Photostream (P070409PS-0854) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons With Bibi Netanyahu lamenting an "historic mistake", Eric Cantor calling the deal "in fact dangerous", Lindsay Graham describing it as a "nightmare",...
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Death of the Filibuster
By way of procedural motion, and a simple majority vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ushered in the undoing of the filibuster. And good riddance. With Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's foreboding of certain and impending Democratic...
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Obama's "Keep Your Insurance" Fail
"If you like your insurance, you can keep it." Sounds pretty simple, right? Well, reports are emerging of people receiving notices from their insurance companies explaining that the holder's policies will no longer be available to them, come...
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Voter Suppression Bad Move for GOP
Since the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were passed nearly 50 years ago, our political parties have been slowly sorting themselves out. As of 2013, this process is nearly complete. No longer are there Rockefeller Republicans who partner up...
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Obama: "How do I make the American people more comfortable?"
Obama offers possible NSA reforms,
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Is White America Capable of Empathy?
By VOA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I hate celebrity trials. I loathe the wall-to-wall Nancy Grace-style coverage, and universal tunnel-vision that emerges in the media. The sudden explosion of folks with law degrees in the break-room and...
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Tea Party Cries Of IRS Harassment Debunked
In a conference call on June 24, acting IRS Chief Danny Werfel finally put the IRS "scandal" to bed. When the IG report was released in May, Tea Partiers across the land at long last felt vindicated in their long-held feelings of IRS harassment -...
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Obama Committing US to Syrian Conflict
By Pete Souza (White House Flickr account) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons According to a recent UN report, at least 93,000 have been killed in just over two years of conflict in Syria. While the rising death toll is indeed shocking, it is...
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Americans Take Surveillance-State With Collective Shrug
In light of recent relevations brought to the fore by hero/traitor and former CIA employee Edward Snowden via The Guardian, we now have tangible evidence of the extent to which the federal government is spying on it's citizens. Tellingly, the...
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40% Breadwinner Moms - Scourge or Savior?
Much ado has been made of Pew Research reporting that as of 2011, 40% of households with children under 18 count on the mother as the primary breadwinner in the home - up from just 10% in 1960. On face value, this is very good news, as women are...
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The Summer of Scandalgate!!!
Of the current triumvirate of turmoil, only one of these stories will survive the great Summer of Scandalgate, and live on to effect election season ‘14
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Obama: War on Terror "Must End Now"
By Matthias Winkelmann (Obama In Berlin) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons President Obama delivered an hour-long counter-terrorism speech, which ranged from drone warfare and torture, to Guantanamo and...
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Congress Restores Only Sequester Cuts that Effect Congress
Approval ratings of Congress have been hovering around 10-15% for years now. The sequester debacle serves as a perfect representation as to why. Why? Congress' handling of this self-inflicted crisis. While the sequester means that 4 million...
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Myanmar Sanctions Lifted Despite Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing
By racoles (Monks Protesting in Burma) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Despite the escalation of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, international sanctions are being lifted - most recently by the European...
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Filibuster Dooms Background Checks
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) CC 2.0 Brian Finifter via flickr "Shame on you!" Tuscon shooting survivor and hero, Patricia Maisch, admonished the Senate. This in the aftermath of a 54-46 vote in which the majority of the Senate was...
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Obama's Chained CPI Gamble
By The White House from Washington, DC (P012009PS-0477 Uploaded by Ekabhishek) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons President Obama finally released his 2014 budget. In doing do, he becomes the first Democratic president to offer cuts to Social...
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Why Republicans Are Wrong - Ryan Budget Edition
House Budget Committee Chair Rep Paul Ryan By United States Congress [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons No politician in his (or her) right mind would come out and say that they hate poor people. Not in those exact words, at least. It's not...
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Republican Governors Cannot Resist the Temptation of Obamacare
Like ants with sugar - GOP Governors cannot resist the temptation of billions of dollars in Obamacare funds.
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Why is Iranian Nuclear Containment Insufficient?
Should we decide that Iran cannot have any nukes, how long would a preemptive attack on nuclear facilities in Iran delay their ambitions?
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Holder: Extra-Judicial Execution of Americans in US "Hypothetically... Appropriate & Necessary"
Should US politicians have the authority to target and kill Americans on US soil without judicial process? Senator Rand Paul filibusters Brennan CIA confirmation for an answer from the White House
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Boehner Finally Sends VAWA to Obama's Desk
After 500-plus days of abetting perpetrators of domestic abuse by overseeing the lapse of the Violence Against Women Act, Boehner finally leads GOP
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Seattle Mariners 2013 Preview
King Felix & Manager Eric Wedge welcome the Houston Astors; as well as Kendrys Morales, Mike Morse, & Raul Ibanez t0 drawn-in Safeco Field fences.
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Press Corps Sleeps on Obama - with Tiger Woods
This has, of course, thrown the mainstream media into a tizzy. With bunched-panties and brows-furrowed they gasp in collective astonishment at their audaciously supercilious golfer-in-chief...
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Harry Reid Filibuster Deal Debacle
Failure to add teeth to filibuster leaves Hagel confirmation hanging in the balance
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NRA, LaPierre Lay Down Suppressive Fire for Profiteers of Gun-Violence
While NRA leadership vows to "Stand and Fight" common sense Gun Safety, the CEO profiteers of bloodshed go unnoticed
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Obama White Papers Rationalize Targeted Killing of Americans
In response to repeated Freedom of Information requests, the White House at long last released documents seeking to justify the Obama Administration's policy on targeted killing of American citizens abroad. The Senate Intelligence Committee gained...
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Senate Passes No Budget, No Pay; Suspends Debt-Ceiling
Congress kicks the debt-ceiling can down the road - again. Of can-kicking and budgetary malfeasance.
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Randy Moss - Greatest Receiver Ever?
Simply, no. Remembering Jerry Rice & Don Hutson - plus the 1998 NFL Draft from the perspective of a Dallas Cowboys fan.
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2nd Amendment Survivalists - Vigilant Patriots or Treasonous Extremists?
We discuss the survivalist wet dream, address well-regulated militias, and note the Heller case. Followed by reenactments of the Gun Control Act Revolution of 1968, and the Assault Weapons Ban Revolution of 1994
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Is the Republican Party Nearing Extinction?
Conservatives need to do some soul-searching and regroup, before it's too late. First their demographic problem, then some friendly advice to the GOP on what they can do - or rather stop doing - to save the Republican brand
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The Hall of Fame Needs Barry Bonds - In the The Steroid Cheaters Era Wing
The National Baseball Hall of Fame needs Barry Bonds - and Roger Clemens - in order to stay relevant. The 1990s Steroid Era cannot be annexed from history.
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Why Republicans Are Wrong - Debt Ceiling Edition
Today class, we will discussing the debt ceiling. Not to tip my hand... but the Republicans are wrong and the debt ceiling is stupid.
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John Boehner, Speaker?
Should John Boehner remain Speaker of the House? Vote here...
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What's a Fiscal Cliff? Defining Disaster
I break down the aspects of the fiscal cliff; sequestration, expiring tax cuts, and the debt ceiling.
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LaPierre, NRA: Blame Everything but Guns
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre exemplifies the difference between responsible gun owners and hunters, and of gun manufacturers and survivalists.
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We Must Arm Our Teachers -- Right Wing Solution to Gun Violence in Schools
Conservatives propose legislation to arm more teachers in response to Sandy Hook.
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Gun Safety Now
Gun-violence fun facts, gun-safety solutions, the reality of what gun laws could realistically accomplish, NRA & survivalists, and the politics & the history of the 2nd Amendment and gun-control legislation in the United States
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Obamacare In Plain English - Just the Facts
Step-by-step description of what Obamacare is doing, and will be doing in the future.
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Romney Will Lose this Election
By Gage Skidmore [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commo For what it‘s worth, Mitt Romney has very well shown that he truly believes that he deserves to be president and that he‘d do a wonderful job....
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And Jesus Said... Jesus Quotes for Liberal Christians
Jesus was a liberal who fed the poor, healed the sick, and embraced the shunned. Jesus quotes for liberal Christians to enjoy, and conservatives to take to heart.
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Obamacare: in Plain English
Obama Health Care Speech to Joint Session of Congress By Lawrence Jackson (whitehouse.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsUnderstanding effects of the law will help ease the spookiness factor. Our health care system is, for all intents &...
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Budget Debate: Difference is 1%
Paul Ryan standing strong before President Obama, circa 2010. Pete Souza, By The White House from Washington, DC (P022510PS-0748) [Public domain], via Wikimedia C Hearing all of this talk surrounding tax returns and budget battles lately... lemme...
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Why Should I Care, Does My Vote Really Matter? - The Democratic Role of an American Citizen
Congress sucks. The president sucks. All they do is take my taxes and give them to welfare and foreign aid. Politicians are all liars - they're corporate shills corrupted by greed and legal bribery. Why should I bother with choosing the lesser of two-evils? Why should I care? Why vote?
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Drones - National Security or Domestic Threat?
From signature strikes and due process to cattle rustlers and Eastern Gateway Community College