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I'm just a time traveller trying to get home - but this isn't quite the future I remember.
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I ran across a FaceBook post by one of my acquaintances earlier today in which he laid out a strong pro-life position. If there’s anything guaranteed to stoke the cultures wars and add to division, that’s one of the topics right there. While I knew...
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on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 04:46 PM PST
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Yesterday I went to the Women’s March in Albany, NY. 10,000 marchers showed up at 4:00 on a Saturday to make their voices heard. It wasn’t just women. It was people of all ages, genders, colors, and causes, all in solidarity. The march began at the...
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on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 01:29 PM PST
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Mike Rowe is an entertainer who puts out podcasts and has a Youtube video of one with a message for an America divided by the recent Presidential election. Mr. Rowe tells a short story titled ~Oh brother which has gotten a lot of buzz. Odds are you may...
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on Thu Jan 19, 2017 at 07:37 PM PST
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Hate politics?
Like it or not, you are part of politics even if you choose not to participate. Too often silence gets counted as assent. Hating politics is like hating air or water - there's no way to live without them and it does no one any good...
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Atrios has a short post today that is a bit more introspective than usual. It’s a thinker about the role of the “Crazy” Left versus the Mainstream Left. It’s not all that long, so Read The Whole Thing, but there were a couple of points that stood out...
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on Sun Jan 15, 2017 at 09:09 AM PST
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Mark Hamill has been having fun doing the voice of the Joker on Batman the Animated Series. He’s surprisingly good at channeling the Dark side…
Recently, in response to a a suggestion, he recited a Trump tweet, his New Years ‘greetings’ using the...
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on Sat Jan 14, 2017 at 11:52 AM PST
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- Donald Trump is now president of the United States. He has vowed to repeal Obamacare. Repeal will hurt millions of people on Obamacare, directly and indirectly. But there is much that we can do. ...148 comments 166 Recs
- Hours after being sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the new president took a strange tone at his inaugural ball, calling those who disapprove of his use of Twitter his “enemies.” After a good night’s rest in his new residence, he...308 comments 543 Recs
- There have been large protest events in the past, such as a 1982 anti nuclear protest in Central Park that drew a crowd of a million. There have also been protests spread across multiple cities, for example, protests over the War in Iraq that put 10...562 comments 446 Recs
- Earlier this evening, Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times tweeted: His Tweet was retweeted by someone at the National Park Service, part of the Interior Department. (See above.) A few hours later: The Interior Department was ordered...354 comments 265 Recs
- So the last few days, I have been thinking very seriously about how to spend today. I knew I would die by a thousand paper-cuts to watch any news or read any blogs as the abomination of a tragedy unfolded in Washington DC — so I knew I had to DO...191 comments 243 Recs
- At the top of popular vote loser Donald Trump's dark, threatening inauguration speech was this: The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your...194 comments 239 Recs
- There are a few differences between what Donald Trump represents and what President Barack Obama represents. When Senator Barack Obama celebrated in the same place, the day before his inauguration, it was estimated that about 400,000 people were...524 comments 377 Recs
- It is getting very testy in many of the hearings. This is an explosion seldom seen in hearings between senators. Senator Pat Roberts disrespected Senators Ron Wyden & Sherrod Brown Senator Pat Roberts suggested that Senator Ron...298 comments 247 Recs
- I have had three personal run ins with Amway, and I can say from my Amway experience that Betsy Devos should not be appointed to ANY government office. Period. Let me explain. During the 1990’s, I lived in the Research Triangle Park area of NC....194 comments 279 Recs
- I recently verified something that most of us lefties more or less rightfully assume: Most Trump voters aren’t very smart people. But I also discovered something about Trumpers I didn’t really believe: Some of them actually listen—at least one I met...468 comments 582 Recs
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