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Doctors vs Politicians

Sunday, October 23rd, 2016

Life is complicated. We don’t live in a perfect world. Our laws should take that into account. In 1987 in Washington, 27-year-old Angela Carder was 26 weeks’ pregnant and gravely ill with cancer. It wasn’t clear that Carder, who was sedated, wanted to deliver via a Cesarean section, which her doctors said was too risky. […]

Straight Talk About Life Choices

Saturday, October 22nd, 2016

Some straight talk from a friend. I didn’t ID her. Life issues tend to bring out the worst in conservatives from verbal abuse to outright violent threats. Ironic no? When I look at the abortion debate, I think of several things: 1. No woman in the United States has ever been forced to have an […]

Real Security Requires Real Risk Assessment

Friday, October 14th, 2016

Conservatives prefer addressing fake threats to real threats.

Crass, vulgar, Stupidity

Saturday, October 8th, 2016

Donald Trump is everything President Obama is not. Trump is reckless, ignorant and full of pride. I’ve said for awhile now that hatred makes you stupid. For 8 years conservative misleaders manufactured fear and hatred of the President of the United States of America. They are now reaping what they have sown. Crass, vulgar, Stupidity.

Humanism

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

Conservative politicians and pundits understand that they cannot succeed unless they create an “other” separate from humanity. “Mexican rapist.” “Muslim extremist.” “Thug” “Welfare Queen” “Drug Addict” Hence, conservative politicians and pundits target the Humanities at universities with vicious attacks that de-legitimize these fields of study. Renaissance humanism opened the door to the Modern World. We […]

Oklahoma Conservatives Kill Jobs and the Middle Class

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

Killing jobs. Killing a state. Is it any wonder, young people have to leave the state to find a decent job? Public services are essential for a middle class to survive. The budget agreement announced today by legislative leaders and the Governor proposes a total of $6.778 billion in state appropriated dollars for FY 2017. […]

Conservatives Really Don’t Care About the Deficit

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

 Just like Reagan, Trump does not care abut the debt or the deficit. Throw money at rich people, and it’ll trickle down. The revenue losses understate the total effect on the national debt because they do not include the additional interest that would accrue as a result. Including interest costs, the proposal would add $11.2 […]

Cutting government spending now hurts everyone.

Sunday, April 17th, 2016

This chart from Brad DeLong has to be my favorite for understanding “what’s missing?” or “what’s different?”. The one area of the economy that is going down is government spending. If conservative economics were correct, the economy should be rocking. Instead it is making slow but steady progress. Voters need to stop punishing government workers […]

Who are the real conservatives?

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

Ironic No? The government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna “has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil […]

Promoting Responsible Gun Ownership

Sunday, October 11th, 2015

Rewriting the Second Amendment has made us all less safe, particularly Police Officers and Children. Guns should be treated like cars. Owners should be trained, licensed and have insurance, then we could have real responsible gun ownership. The authors of the Constitution understood their own language.  In fact, they confronted many of the same issues […]

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