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A Rainbow Lining, But We Still Have Miles To Go
No, today’s rulings by the Supreme Court on the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8 do NOT make up for yesterday’s horrendous decision to walk back five decades of voting rights. Nothing can make up...
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Stephen Colbert’s Big Gay Round Up: Gay Blood Transfusion Makes You Gay (VIDEO)
In typically fine satiric form, Stephen Colbert lampooned the inherent risks in allowing gay people to marry. Referring to the possibility of gay people giving blood, Colbert said, “Folks, letting gay...
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Mike Huckabee: I’m No Homophobe, But Gay Marriage Is Comparable To Polygamy...
Mike Huckabee wants you to know that he is no “homophobe.” It’s just that gay marriage is pretty much the same as multiple concurrent marriages or street walking. Yesterday on his Fox News show,...
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Rachel Maddow Calls North Carolina ‘Conservatives Gone Wild’ (VIDEO)
If Texas wants to be thought of as the state that passes the most extreme legislation–and you know they do–they are going to have to keep pace with North Carolina. Last night on the Rachel Maddow...
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Waiting For The Demographic Tsunami
Contrary to what some in the peanut gallery might say, I was NOT around 65 million years ago when the asteroid that hit the Earth wiped out the dinosaurs. Though it’s likely they never knew what hit...
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Are We Exporting Democracy Because Our Own Works So Well?
From an AlterNet article By Marty Kaplan, he asks “Brazilians Are Taking to the Streets to Protest Their Country’s Injustice and Inequality—Why Aren’t We?” He goes on to write, “Our spirits have been...
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Supreme Court Rules Drug Companies Exempt From Lawsuits
Been watching the headlines lately. It’s what a Policy Geek does. The last few days we found people enraged over mostly silly stuff. (Fic, ComicBookMovie.com) For instance, Warner Brothers announced...
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Christian Principles in Capitalism? Scalia Thinks So.
As reported in the Huffington Post, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say, “While I would not argue that capitalism as an economic system is inherently more Christian than socialism …...
View ArticleOne Day The GOP Will Regret Calling It ‘Obamacare’ And That Day Cometh Right...
It started out on the campaign trail in 2008 with the most generic of titles, “Health Care Reform.” At the time the concept was a popular one with the public at large. Everyone hated the insurance...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Policy Murder: Will Duplicity and Dupes Kill Hope and Change?
If the last 40-odd days of health care hysteria serve any intellectually viable purpose, it is to ratify the Thomas Theorem on self-fulfilling prophesies: If men define situations as real, they are...
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