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• GOP loses its appetite for contraception fight

  Wed Mar 7, 2012
  • The Republicans are still searching for a wedge issue they can use to ignite the base without alienating all the moderate voters they will need to win a national election. This wasn't it. They know they have a weak frontrunner in Romney, and Obama's approval rating grows slowly but steadily higher.

• Conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart dies at age 43

  Thu Mar 1, 2012
  • I am sorry for his family. I do not mourn his passing.

• Planned Parenthood 'reeling' after losing charity funds

  Tue Jan 31, 2012
  • I used to donate to the Komen foundation, but no more; because of their cowardice in the face of religious zealotry, they will never get another penny of my hard-earned money.

• Are parents responsible for teen drinking, even if they don't know about it?

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • My son is in his mid-20s. He recently had a party to celebrate his birthday, and invited 15 friends. One friend showed up with 4 guys whom my son had never met, and even though he felt uncomfortable, he did not want to insult his friend by saying that the others were not welcome.

• What does rising inequality suggest about the American dream?

  Wed Nov 16, 2011
  • The wealthy aren't content with living well - they want more and more of the pie for themselves, meaning there's less and less for the rest

• And let the people's motto ever be, 'United thus, and thus united - Free'

  Thu Nov 3, 2011
  • I posted on this same topic on a neutral web site yesterday that "In God We Trust" appears to violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, and was immediately blasted with messages saying that the United States took its Constitution and system of laws from the Christian Bible, and if atheists …

• French satirical magazine offices set on fire

  Wed Nov 2, 2011
  • All religion is evil. Islam is just more evil than the others.

• House reaffirms 'In God We Trust' as US motto

  Wed Nov 2, 2011
  • As usual, Obama is correct that the original national motto was and should still be "E Pluribus Unum" -- "Out of Many, One." "In God We Trust" violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution that the Republicans claim to love, but tear to shreds every chance they get.

• Calif. pot dispensaries told by feds to shut down

  Thu Oct 6, 2011
  • This is utter bullshit. The DEA fascists exist solely to drain funds and justify their own existence. Absolutely nothing the United States government does makes a bit of sense anymore. We've become a nation without direction, a boat adrift without a rudder.

• Texan freed by DNA 25 years after wife's slaying

  Wed Oct 5, 2011
  • Here was a man who not only found his beloved wife brutally beaten to death, but then was blamed and punished for it by a severely broken criminal justice system.