Perhaps if health-care reform had been called: "The Pledge to Keep America Healthy" it would have been perceived differently by RWGOPTP, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, all of its detractors and the American people who were clearly confused by the... Read more: http://hubpages.com/t/22d1a3

That is the question… whether it is nobler in the mind to blindly follow the PAC or castoff the shackles of tyranny and ideology and think for oneself. “The insolence of officious authority; and the advantage that the worst people take of the... Read full post »

"All public service is a trust, given in faith and accepted in honor." Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) What is preventing Congress from committing themselves to job creation rather than draconian abortion...

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America has a universal labor union based on disciplines and laws most often designed and fought for by individual unions across this country... the universal labor union is the Department of Labor along with the EEOC and the NLRB.

"The Department of Labor (DOL) administers and enforces more than 180… Read full post »

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A Memorial to Gay & Lesbian Service Members

As it turns out Major Alan Roger’s story is not as unique today, because the stories of brave gay and lesbian service members is being told over and over… Read full post »

The Immoral Compass of America – Newt Gingrich Gay Chicago Gay Chicago - This is gay chicago

The ‘Glitter Man’ showers Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich with fairy dust only to find Newt does not like being gay… in any sense of the word. And after having had a ver… Read full post »

I have tried so very hard to eliminate any conscious thought of Fox News and it's ego-maniacal terrorist cell. I have banished all Fox Corp transmissions into my home... censorship? You betcha! I remain on...

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What is the likelihood that anyone reading this hub is a member of the Other 98% of Americans? Pretty damn good... What is the likelihood that any of us will catapult our way into the stratosphere of...

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The House Republican Pledge is like getting a "Promise Ring" from the man you have loved and lived with for six years when you were expecting an engagement ring. Too little, too late? How do you...

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If you get your news infusion from Fox Noise, I'm not talking to you. If you are of the mind that Sarah Palin is a viable Republican candidate for president in 2012 or 2036, I'm not talking to you. ...… Read full post »

I have been meaning to write you for almost two years now congratulating you on your election win, on November 4th, 2008. I'm a terrible procrastinator when it comes to writing letters or sending birthday...

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Glenn Beck by his own words doesn't matter... if you speak lies and half-truths, distort reality and exaggerate truth to pander your ideologies and self-importance and then say that your lies don't matter,...

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The Governor’s order directs all executive branch departments and agencies not to submit applications to the federal government in connection with requests for grant funding for programs and... Read full post »

Roger Ailes, (media adviser to Nixon, Reagan, and G.W. Bush) created "fair and balanced" as a catch-phrase for news that conservatives felt the 'liberal media" ignored. The result is nothing resembling real...

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We gouge the land of any commodity we can sell poisoning the air we breathe, so when there is no clean air and water, we can cheer on the huge, corporate conglomerate that figures out how to charge us for clean air and clean water.

Pathologists Investigate Deaths of Sea Life Washing Ashore The devastation of the Gulf oil spill will not be measured in our lifetime... it will affect the lives of our children and quite possibly our...

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It would be kind to say after 26 years in the Congress that Senator McCain has served America well and should probably retire while he has his health and faculties. Enjoy the remaining time he has with his...

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You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't supposedly fool all of the people all of the time. So, why does Sarah Palin keep trying?

I watched the Rachel Maddow show last night and have read or heard the rhetoric from politicians over the past 18 months who liken the unemployed to lazy, unmotivated, alcoholic-drug addicts content with...

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The New York Times' Ross Douthat calls Paul's philosophy "self-marginalizing, and self-destructive.

My father used to say, "if you have to explain it, it's not funny"... so true... he also used to say sarcastically, "everybody's a comedian"... You could probably presume that… Read full post »

O.K. we've got our definition, but where do we get knowledge... as limited as it may be?

It requires a healthy self-esteem, a respectful demeanor, a confident intellect to be a great leader... a role model... a person with strong family values... a great president! A healthy...

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A natural born leader without the swagger or ego of other men in power, Barack Obama appeared like a demi-god rising out of the ashes of the political ruins of his demagogue predecessors (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld).