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Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:35 AM PDT
By Bob Dorn
For years now the Republican Party has been the party of death. Now it may itself be dying. More about that later. For now, some numbers. In 2014, 1,100 of 1359 executions performed by the states were the work of "Republican-dominated states," according to Republicanviews.org on Oct. 26 of that year. Just more than 508 of those executions were in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which did the report. Last May, the Quinnipiac poll taken on attitudes toward the war in Iraq, asked the question, "Do you think going to war with Iraq in 2003 was the right thing to do or the wrong thing?" Overall, 59% of Americans responded that it was wrong and 32% said it was right. Among the Republicans those numbers were more than reversed; 62% of them said it was right to go there and kill, while only 28% said it was wrong. [Read more...]
Posted: 27 Jul 2015 10:23 AM PDT
By Doug Porter The Republicans appear to have settled on their wedge issue for 2016. You know, the thing that drives fear and/or disgust in a certain class of voters so they’ll ignore all those pesky economic policies they’re likely to get screwed by. In 2008 a loosely organized entity named ACORN fit the bill. Manufactured imagery of brown people doing something wrong was perfect for an election where the leading candidate was a person of color. Most people still don’t realize the charges brought against the community organizing group turned out to have been false. The Donald has been busy co-opting the GOP’s immigration issues and Gays have kicking ass in the courts (both legal and popular opinion). Black people have been fighting back lately and there just aren’t enough Muslims to go around. And besides, the lone wolf mostly male libertarians constituting the party’s future are scared to death of female empowerment. [Read more...]
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Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:35 AM PDT
By Jim Miller Every year I make an effort to find my way to the deep woods. Living in California, we are lucky to have access to some of the world’s precious dwindling areas of real wilderness, including the last vestiges of old growth redwoods. There, if you are intrepid enough to get out of your car and go a few miles past the first markers, you can still lose yourself in the ancient forest. Take a difficult trail and, after a while, you just might find yourself alone with the tall trees, banana slugs, birdsong, and bear scat. From a vista you might spy a lush green ocean of ferns and fallen logs bathed in ethereal light filtered through the dense canopy overhead. Inside the husk of a giant downed by lightening or flood, you discover a new universe of fungus, flowers, and thick moss whispering to you that there really is no death. [Read more...]
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Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:34 AM PDT
By Ernie McCray I will forever remember "The San Diego Pride Parade of 2015," not just because of it's history, but for the rain. And I'm talking some serious rain. I mean Mother Nature just flat out let it all hang out. And there I was, along with hundreds of other waterlogged folks in every kind of colorful regalia known to man, standing and walking and practically treading in that downfall for a good three hours or so. Soaked to the skin and bones! When my group got the go ahead to march in the puddles and streams and through a "mini-lake" just around the corner, a man said over a microphone "It's raining on our parade and we're loving it." [Read more...]
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