We, the Baby Boom Generation, victims of the immoral and illegal war against Viet Nam, decided and declared that our children would not be subject to a draft forcing them to serve in immoral and illegal wars. And it came to pass that the draft was abolished.
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Americans need to consider mandatory random drug testing - for Congress and the Supreme Court, and that's just for starters.
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Ideologies are systems of rationalization, abstractions removed from real life. One could assert that democracy could never work, or that feudalism would always work, that fascism was evil or good. Libertarianism could be the fuel of anarchy. Liberalism could be …
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Common Ground Between Conservatives and Liberals. Can You Feel it Growing? Too often, Liberals are so concerned with freedom for those conspicuously being abused by society that we forget to protect our own rights from erosion by corporate controlled government. Corpo …
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There is a great TED talk by Richard Wilkinson solid data on how economic inequality is harmful; the more inequality the greater the harm.
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There is no Tea Party. It is a diffuse movement without leaders. It is generally very socially conservative, and it has galvanized anger at government as its theme. Of course, there is plenty to be upset about, especially since government has been corrupted …
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Today, according to numerous news sources, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John Boehner, told America that "job creators in America are on strike." In Labor terms, that might be called a "lockout" rather than a "strike." This is startling langua …
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There have been epochs in history during which many political and cultural revolutions (and “revivals”) have occurred. The rioting in Great Britain may be showing us what can happen when a potential revolt caused by the realization that working peop …
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Of course, possessing and transferring weed was first criminalized in 1937. And while hemp can’t get you even remotely stoned, its relation to what can has kept it illegal.
Are you wondering why we are cursed with so many Crackpot Republican Presidential Candidates? Well, there actually does seem to be a pattern as our political revolving doors continue to be crammed with right-wing Republican candidates. From what I can figure, the Republica …
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