11 hours ago by Jymn

You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and Republican henchmen. Now I see the Heart & Stroke Foundation here in Vancouver is hosting abreakfast with Rex “ ...

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14 hours ago by Jymn

Shocking is right. But par for the course when it comes to heavy-handed Conservatives. I love the part how Gerstein blacked out “his motion, the debates and the vote”. Transparency? Free society? Guess again. Ottawa, February 9, 2012 – Yesterday, Senator Irving Gerstein, the new Chair of the Senate ...

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15 hours ago by Jymn

Winners Free speech is only defensible when it is not libel, defamation or injurious to another human being. Goldwater’s attack was a baseless assault on other humans already called indefensible names and tortured enough. Goldwater deserves all the derision and scorn we can throw at her. That is rea ...

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1 day ago by A. C. Baker

I just read about another disturbing developement within the United States military. The Air Force removed “God” from the logo on one of their patches. You see, a small group of God haters (sorry, that’s what they are) called the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers complained about the ...

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1 day ago by Ron in Maine

There’s no other explanation for the events that have unfolded than the earth as we know it will cease to exist, just like “they” predicated. I know because on February 9, 2012, I AGREED WITH SOMETHING THAT MIKA BRZEZINSKI SAID ON “MORNING JOE” ON MSNBC! Now I know what you are thinking. That can’t ...

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2 days ago by Leftymarx

From Andrew Cohen at The Atlantic, who thinks the vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy will be decisive. Cohen thinks he’s likely to side with Prop 8’s opponents. Fingers crossed.

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3 days ago by Leftymarx

…but it is just downright funny.

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3 days ago by ck

Move over Stephen Woodsworth! Heeere’s Cheryl!! Cheryl Gallant, who often shits where she eats, let’s out a doozy today. In fact, if that’s even possible, she sounded wackier than Michelle Bachman. Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant is getting herself into hot water again, this time drawing a parallel b ...

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4 days ago by Bipartisan Alliance/DC

U.S.-China Competition in Asia: Legacies Help America. BY ROBERT SUTTER East-West Center Feb 2012 http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/apb147.pdf As Sino-American competition for influence enters a new stage with the Obama administration’s re-engagement with Asia, each power’s l ...

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4 days ago by Robert Cornwall

In case you're wondering, the issue at hand really isn't fluoridation , but rather the kinds of issues that seem to get a rise out of folks. Right now the Katherine Sebelius's ruling that health insurance carriers must provide contraception is being used to rally Catholic troops by their bishops, th ...

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