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Apologies for taking so long to get back to you. I think we can agree that while Twitter has its advantages, some conversations do not benefit from brevity but rather suffer for it. As such, I thought it best to gather my thoughts and post them here. Should you wish you reply on your own platform or blog, I will cheerfully establish an account to continue whatever discussion may ensue. Having

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The current situation at our southern border is indeed a crisis. Children are risking their lives to travel hundreds of miles through dangerous areas in order to get to the U.S. in the hope that they can escape dire circumstances in their home countries. The ones who survive arrive here bruised, bleeding, and frequently sick. It may never be possible to determine who started the rumor that if

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Adopted by the Republican National ConventionJuly 15, 1980Detroit, Mich.(This post is in progress)Republican Platform: A PreambleThe Republican Party convenes, presents this platform, and selects its nominees at a time of crisis. America is adrift. Our country moves agonizingly, aimlessly, almost helplessly into one of the most dangerous and disorderly periods in history.At home, our economy

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(This post is in progress...)PreambleThe United States is living in an age of profoundest revolution. The lives of men and of nations are undergoing such transformations as history has rarely recorded. The birth of new nations, the impact of new machines, the threat of new weapons, the stirring of new ideas, the ascent into a new dimension of the universe- everywhere the accent falls on the

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Atheism is not a black & white issue to the extent that there are nuanced variations.Hopefully this Venn helps clarify this for people who tend to lump us all in the same box.

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I guess you have to have some sympathy for Fox News today. Faced with a surprisingly good monthly jobs report, indicating not just better-than-expected April numbers but also upward revisions of 114,000 jobs in February/March, it must have been difficult to decide to focus on "anemic growth" while avoiding the temptation to blame the good numbers on the sequester. But there could very well be be

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Believers in austerity economics often say that government budgets should balance like household budgets, as though there isn't any difference. They'll say things like, "We have to balance our budget, so why shouldn't the government?" It is curious to me because it betrays a lack of understanding of multiple key issues, from the differences between deficits and debts, to the whole idea of cash

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jobsanger: A Rising Tide For Marijuana Legalization: The chart above (from Talking Points Memo ) is a combination of many polls since 1995. It should come as no surprise that since that time ...

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Fear of the youth vote, now in North Carolina

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Worrisome South Carolina climate change report kept secret for over a year

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If you are trying to lose weight, or get in better shape, do you think it wise to do some research before changing your eating habits and lifestyle? Perhaps consult with a doctor who specializes in weight-loss plans? Maybe you'd even talk to some friends who have recently improved their health and at least gotten some anecdotal evidence of which plans work and which might best be avoided. The

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This is a long wonky read, with a fair amount of math. If you're not into that, cool. Now, on to the wonkiness! On paper and at first glance, as with many schemes designed to simplify the U.S. tax code, the Fair Tax has some appeal. We look back in time, calculate roughly how much money the country needs to fulfill its obligations, foreign and domestic, and then apply a simple formula so that

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What Vicious Lies Are The Religious Right Telling To Keep Gays Out Of The Boy Scouts? | The New Civil Rights Movement

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Robert Reich (The GOP Crackup: How Obama is Unraveling Reagan Republicanism)

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Alzheimer's Reading Room: Dementia, Accusations, and Fractured Fairy Tales

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Gosh darnit, the labor market continues to see improvement. Remember how RWNJs said stimulus wouldn't work, and that austerity was the way to go? Remember that? Remember all the idgets in 2009 and 2010 that accused Obama of having as a primary goal the destruction of the U.S. economy? Well, once again the demand-side policies are being vindicated. Yes, the initial claims number jumps around a

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DO THE RIGHT THING, GOVERNOR SNYDER: Expand Medicaid Now

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Well, the White House has responded to those marijuana legalization petitions. In a way. Of a sort. Kinda. Actually, not really. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, issued a statement, which is part boilerplate and part redundancy. Part I reads as follows: "Thank you for participating in We the People and speaking out on the legalization of marijuana. Coming

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We keep hearing the myopic mantra from the right that says, "we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem." Depending on the speaker, they may also work in something hypocritical about deficits, as though they had no hand in creating our current fiscal situation. Here's an idea for the GOP, since they love signing absolute pledges and are SO fiscally conservative it almost brings

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The War on Christmas is fake and has zero casualties. The War on Drugs is real and an utter failure. I find it laughable that one of these wars is dusted off each year by the same people who claim to be in favor of personal liberty and responsibility (and of course fiscal restraint) but the other one is lauded as necessary even as it fails in its goals, sends tens of thousands of people to

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[I intend to expand on these ideas in a future video, but for now this can serve as a first draft of the script] There is a substantial contingent in this country that regularly sings the praises of the free market as the most powerful self-regulating mechanism through which open competition fueled by informed consumers will produce the healthiest and most efficient environment for innovation

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Whining about elements in the Republican party who seek to soften the perception that all GOP candidates are anti-gay, at least insofar as regards same-sex marriage, the blog over at Ruth Institute enumerates several "salient" arguments against allowing same-sex marriage that they believe are being "suppressed" within the GOP. The idea is that, if only these arguments were given full voice,

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Via Politico from an interview with Fox News Channel head Roger Ailes: “It’s day to day for us,” Ailes tells [Politico]. “We don’t — I know no one believes it — we have no agenda. If he runs into a burning building tomorrow and saves four kids, he’s gonna be the biggest goddamn hero Fox News ever saw. But if he leaves four guys behind on the battlefield but can’t explain it, then he’s gonna have

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This week, it was announced that BP is pleading guilty to having committed 11 felonies in connection with the Horizon Deep Water oil spill in 2010. This criminal negligence resulted in the deaths of 11 rig workers. The punishment exacted? A fine of $4.5 billion, to be paid in installments over a six-year period. According to their 2011 annual report to shareholders, BP Oil has annual revenues of

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Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock has a very straightforward attitude about the sanctity of life: all life is created by God (we'll assume he means Yahweh), and therefore all forms of and reasons for any abortion should be illegal. He outlines just one intrinsically self-contradictory exception: to save the life of the mother. In a debate this week, Mourdock restated this belief in

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