Texas Secular Convention in Austin, February 27 – March 1, 2015.
Secular Coalition for Texas has announced the first annual Texas Secular Convention to be held in Austin from February 27 – March 1, 2015. It will be preceded by a Rally/Lobby Day on the steps of the...
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On Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand'
Adam Smith's "invisible hand" metaphor is beloved by free market economists, not because they actually know or care what Smith wrote, of course, but for its utility toward justifying their otherwise...
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Selma exhibit at LBJ Library in Austin
"Civil Rights are Unconstitutional." Tea Party Conservatives on guard in Selma, AL, March 1965. Photo by James Martin.Anyone heading toward Austin on Saturday, February 28 for the Statewide TexasKOS...
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Jim Crow and school vouchers
Conservatives' vision of the future of Texas public schools.The Texas legislature is in session, something that should invoke fear and terror in anyone who cares about such things as logic, ethics,...
View Article"Guns Everywhere" Laws in Texas Proceed to the Sound of Multiple Child Homicides
"Guns Everywhere!" has been the motto of the Republican Party since at least January 16, 2013, the day President Obama signed 23 executive orders in one day in response to the Sandy Hook massacre. This...
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On Bernie Sanders' 1972 Essay and Stag Magazine
Stag Magazine, April, 1971The 1972 essay "Man -- and Woman" by "Bernard" Sanders has been getting a lot of attention because the media has labelled it a "rape...
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The Sociopathy of Ted Cruz, Part 87
Ted Cruz, sociopath.Days after one of the most horrific mass killings in recent history, Senator and Presidential candidate Ted Cruz did what you would expect...
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Ted Cruz Campaign Co-Chair: Removing Confederate Flag is Just Like "Stalinist...
Lee Bright. "No mass murder of colored peoples is gonna stop me from being a proud supporter of the Stars and Bars! Keep her...
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South Carolina Republican Digs In, Issues His Own Confederate Manifesto
Civil War historian Lee Bright (R-SC) is not happy about his most favorite symbol being challenged by some uppity black folks. Hot on the heels of comparing the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag...
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The Best Bernie Sanders T-Shirt
Since Bernie Sanders' official campaign gear looks like it was designed by a Republican, you might want to check out some of the independent artists' designs that are out there. Since I've been...
View ArticleThe Day Bernie Sanders Bitchslapped Alan Greenspan.
Watch Bernie Sanders tell Alan Greenspan, in 2003, that Americans are not living the way that Mr. Greenspan imagines they are. Then just 5 years later Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal...
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Sandra Bland: My Trip to the Site of Her Arrest
This afternoon I drove to Prairie View, Texas, to find out precisely where the July 10 Sandra Bland arrest occurred, and to photograph the area. This tragedy occurred near where I live, and I had to...
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On The Bernie Sanders Protest Conspiracy Theories, and the Secular Divide
"Anyone supporting Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist! Palin 2016!" On Saturday, after one of the most absurd and quixotic "protests" in the history of protesting shut down a Bernie Sanders speaking...
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Ted Cruz Electrifies Audience of Dozens in Mississippi
Ted Cruz speaking in Olive Branch, Mississippi, August 11, 2015. Photo credit: Texas Tribune. Ex-Canadian Southern Baptist Presidential candidate Ted Cruz took his hugely unpopular "Cruz Country" bus...
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BLM's Marissa Johnson: "I refuse to believe that the system that we're in is...
Marissa Johnson We are now learning a lot more about Seattle Bernie Sanders protester Marissa Johnson: who she is, what she believes, and what she hopes to accomplish. The Seattle Times published a...
View ArticleJorge Ramos: Welcome to Trumpland
Jorge Ramos has an excellent piece on his website that lays out the dystopian nightmare of an America under a Trump presidency. Well worth reading.For Trumpland to be free of undocumented immigrants,...
View ArticleThe Political Genius of Bernie's Instant Fundraiser
Bernie Sanders’ idea to have an “instant fundraiser” during his victory speech in New Hampshire last night was one of the most breathtaking moves I’ve ever witnessed in any political campaign. The fact...
View ArticleMy statement on the death of Antonin Scalia
Most of the Founding Fathers whose ideas Antonin Scalia supposedly defended and upheld were stridently anti-Catholic, which is why no Catholic was appointed to the Supreme Court until 1836.It is...
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