Recent Votes

• RNC Chairman Makes the GOP's Reactionary Agenda Very Clear

  Source: Little Green Footballs

  Reince Priebus says the official position of the Republican Party is that gays and lesbians should not be allowed to marry, they do not see it as a civil rights issue, and what’s more, they want a constitutional amendment to enshrine their bigotry as the law of the land,  …

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• Enough Religion Already?

  Jesus, as the Son of God or otherwise, easily outweighs every western religious or political leader who has ever lived in terms of his influence upon human development. Sadly, the Bible, as the only written account of his life and teachings has often been turned into a weapon, mu …

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• The GOP's Ideology Could Kill the Nation

  To be sure, the Democratic Party has its own flaws but at least it continues to promise a potential for social and economic progress, a concept that appears entirely antithetical to the GOP’s current agenda. The worst aspects of that agenda are its numerous implicitly anti- …

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• Do We Still Have a Supreme Court?

  Samuel Alito’s now infamous mouth and head movements during the 2010 State of the Union address was a purposeful expression of his disagreement with the US President. But even if Mr. Obama grievously breached protocol by bemoaning the Citizens United ruling, Justice Al …

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• Health-Care Rationing, the Republican Way

  “Death Panels” is as illustrative an example of GOP hyperbole as any. While both parties may have been equally ineffective in the Health-Care Reform debate, the GOP’s use of rationing as a fear factor ploy in opposing the reform effort was entirely hypocritical. …

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