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Midday open thread – Syria, GOP Crisis, Maher, Cruise Missiles, Floods (VIDEO)

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On Syria President Obama likely saying: People, calm down. I got this. He probably ‘got this’: President Obama on Sunday hailed the agreement reached with Russia over the weekend to seize and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons as a “foundation” that could eventually lead to a political settlement of the civil war that has gripped that […]

Republicans Spur Progressive Movement In Texas by Middle Class & Poor

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Many cringe whenever they hear that Texas is a Red State. Demographically it seems impossible. Texas is a majority minority state. Specifically, non-Latino Whites make up 44% of the state. Latinos make up 38% of the state, Blacks 12%, and Asians 4%. Blacks, Latinos, and Asians vote overwhelmingly Democratic (Latinos 70%+, Blacks 90%+, & Asians […]

Here We Go Again: GOP Leader’s Racist Remark About Republican Woman (VIDEO)

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Here we go again. Another Republican shows his racial ‘bona fides’. It is not enough that Erika Harold is a Harvard Law graduate and Miss America. The only thing that matters to Montgomery County Illinois Republican Chairman is that in his mind she is a black Republican congressional candidate who is unworthy to serve. Republican […]

Republican Bill A Contempt for Women’s Rights–Women & Men Will Remember

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All around the country state legislatures dominated by Republicans have continued to pass laws that restrict women’s rights to their own bodies or rights that ensures them equal access to parity with their male counterparts. The New York Times reports this new attack on women rights to their own bodies as follows. Yet after the […]

Right Wing Republican: War In GOP If Immigration Reform Passes (AUDIO)

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Pat Buchanan and Laura Ingraham are at it again on the radio on immigration reform. In a previous broadcast he said that Republicans are working with the Gang of 8 because they were terrified of the 71% to 27% Latino shellacking Republicans took versus President Obama. He said they were in a political panic and […]

Karen Menke Kingwood Observer LTE ‘Shocked By Gun Bills’

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Karen Menke Karen Menke, our own Kingwood Area Democrat, wrote to the Kingwood Observer to provide her view on the gun shenanigans in the Texas State Legislature. Karen’s voice is definitely in sync with most of her neighbors albeit more studied. She is the voice of many Texans who are tired of the backward thinking […]

Bill Maher: Ronald Reagan No Different Than Today’s Tea Party (VIDEO)

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Ronald Reagan was Tea Party? Bill Maher started his New Rule with a quote from a Bob Dole interview. Dole said the Republican Party had become a party of idea free ideologues who obstructed too much. He also stated that Ronald Reagan himself could not have made it as a Republican. Bill Maher took exception […]

Will Women Stop Voting For Men That Diminish Their Worth? (VIDEO)

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Men are just as smart as women.  Women in the real world have generally been the smarter sex. Inasmuch as it is still a male dominated society on paper, women allow most outcomes. One can assume it has much to do with biological urges that a patriarchal culture has ‘imposed’ on men. Many women describe […]

Senator Attributes Military Sexual Assault To Raging Hormones Of Youth (VIDEOS)

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The top military brass was on Capitol Hill today for a hearing on sexual assaults in the military. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has proposed legislation that requires sexual assault charges be handled outside the victim’s chain of command. Gillibrand was emphatic in her statements that commanders are ill abled to objectively address the issue. “Not […]