September 17, 2012
Drivers Have an Internal Timer; Watch Out When It Expires
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September 14, 2012
Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down Governor Walker’s Anti-Union Law
According to the Associated Press, a Wisconsin judge has struck down Governor Walker’s union busting law.
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September 14, 2012
Drug Testing Welfare Recipients? – When Stereotypes Infiltrate Social Policy
A cutesy looking e-card being passed around on Facebook asks:
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September 11, 2012
You Don’t Need Me To Tell You To “Never Forget” 9/11
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September 10, 2012
Liberal Media Bias? Welcome to Reality. Or Would You Prefer ‘Truthiness’ Instead?
To say there is a sizable liberal bias in the media is to show how far the conservative movement has dragged this country to the right in the past 30 years. I’m talking politically, not socially. The country is on a progressive liberal march as always when it comes to social issues. The issues conservatives rail against today will be the issues they defend tomorrow. If there is truth to the charge of liberal bias in the media it is because, as Stephen Colbert quipped, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” In other words, it is liberals who have led the charge when it comes to advancing human progress on social issues, so it stands to reason the mainstream media would also have a similar slant if the media stands for the truth and what’s right. Alternatively you could go with Colbert’s “truthiness” and only accept “facts” you wish to be true (from the gut) instead of facts that are true.
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September 3, 2012
Labor Day: A Shout Out To the Labor Movement
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August 25, 2012
Undocumented Immigrants and their US-Born Children
What is the greater crime – Entering the country illegally? Or, a judge ordered separation of parent from child? If you ask me, it’s the latter, and I’d like to hear someone try to make a case for the former being the bigger crime. I’m not saying we should ignore the rule-of-law, but we need a judicial system and an immigration system that does not run on absolutes. We need to stop treating illegal immigration as a serious crime, because it is not.
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August 14, 2012
New Poll Shows Atheism Up, Religiosity Down
A new poll called “Global Index of Religion and Atheism” shows atheism is gaining ground around the globe and in the United States. The same poll shows that the percentage of people identifying as religious is on the decline. To be clear, religion still rules the day with 59% of the world identifying as religious. The percentage of the world identifying as not religious was 23% and as atheist, 13%. The poll was conducted in 57 countries with interviews of 50,000 people.
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August 9, 2012
Fake Outrage over Gun Violence in Aftermath of Movie Theater, Sikh Temple Shootings
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July 23, 2012
Philly Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey: “There needs to be reasonable gun control”
On “This Week”, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told George Stephanopoulos, “I have an issue with people being able to buy ammunition and weapons on the Internet…I don’t know why people need to have assault weapons…There needs to be reasonable gun control put in place. And we talk about this constantly, and absolutely nothing happens, because many of our legislators, unfortunately, at the federal level, lack the courage to do anything.”
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