There is a war for the soul of the Republican Party. The “re-branders” are in conflict the “fundamentalists”. The re-branders want to take their bad ideas and sell them better, the fundamentalists want to take their bad ideas and make them worse. The fundamentalist just celebrated their “prom”, AKA the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). [...]
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- Another child dies by gun shot. Does the 2nd amendment prohibit us from talking about it?
- Minnesota on the road to allowing gay marriage. One woman's heart is broken. Because people getting married is so sad?
- When a father and son didn't get the fast food wings they ordered they exercised their 2nd amendment rights. There should be an IQ test for gun ownership.
- Courageous Senators Stand up to American People
- The Air Force's head of the Sexual Assault Prevention, Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, was removed from his position after he was arrested for sexual battery.
- Uruguay becomes the 12th country to legalize gay marriage. Heterosexuals still waiting for their unions to be downgraded.
- Told that Obama supports the repeal of the 1975 Public Affairs Bill 10 times as many Republicans as Democrats disapprove of his position – Problem is, there is no Public Affairs Bill
- Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) tells the families of the Sandy Hook victims that the gun debate has nothing to do with them.
- Rob Bell, the popular evangelical minister and author unequivocally backs gay marriage.
- A judge in Louisiana has ruled that the right to bear arms extends to felons. The NRA argues that criminals just break the law to get guns. In Louisiana they won't even have to do that.
Dick Cheney – the pot calling the kettle black.
The Republicans have been handed a trifecta of issues to attack Obama with - Benghazi, the IRS, and the AP.
To make the most of it they should stay away from hysteria and hyperbole.
And they should definitely tell Cheney to stay off Fox News. Every time he accuses the Administration of incompetence and lying, he risks reminding the independent voter of the incompetence before 9/11 and the lies before Iraq.Tyson Foods uses a fatal gas.
Tyson Foods has just agreed to pay a fine of $4 million for releasing anhydrous ammonia into the air. This violation of the Clean Air Act is linked to one death and several injuries. The chemical is used in the refrigeration units. Fatal chemicals in food processing plants - yum!
And if this is the way companies behave with regulation. Imagine what they would do without it.Two North Carolina politicians want Christianity to be the official state religion
Two North Carolina law makers are sponsoring a bill that would establish Christianity as the state's official religion.
They claim that the 1st amendment only applies to the federal government and that the 10th allows states to do what they want.
But what they ignore is that North Carolina's own state Constitution guarantees religious freedom.
Section 13 says, "All persons have a natural and inalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience".
If the facts are inconvenient, just ignore them I suppose.Republicans and Democrats work together in NYC.
Bucking a national trend of virulent partisanship, local politicians in New York are working across the party divide.
State Senator, Malcolm Smith, a Democrat who wanted to run for Mayor of New York City as a Republican (to avoid the competitive Democratic primaries) promised money to a construction project. Which in turn paid bribes to Joseph Savino & Vincent Tabino, two NYC Republican Party officials, to put Smith on the Republican ticket.
Unfortunately the construction concern was an FBI sting. And this bipartisan cooperation is off to court.The NRA plan to deal with school violence is both ineffective and very expensive
The NRA revealed it's plan to deal with gun violence in schools - more armed security.
The low estimate for the cost of that is $6 billion.
Should we take that from states' already stretched education budgets? Or should the federal government pay even while there is a budget "crisis"?
Is it even effective? There was an armed guard at Columbine (13 dead). There were armed police at Virginia Tech (32 dead). Fort Hood (13 dead) is an army base.
It is no coincidence that the only party which benefits from the NRA's plan is the gun industry.-
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