Recent Votes

• Daily Kos: Refute This, Republicans!

  Source: Daily Kos

  The graphic says it all.  Republican policies in the last 50 years have been a disaster for Americans. Democratic Presidents create more than twice the jobs than their Republican counterparts.  Democratic Presidencies result in NINE TIMES greater growth in the stock m …

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• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

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  If, as George Lakoff says, we view politics through the metaphor of family, then Mother's Day is a good time to ask the question: Where's Mom in this picture? What are all those dirty socks and pizza boxes doing in the living room? (Seriously: it looks like a frat house in here.) …

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• Culture Wars or Christianity Destroying Itself by Alienating Young People?

  Many Christian leaders are deaf to the cries of the young people who would form the next generation of churchgoers and it's going to destroy their faith if they keep it up. We've all heard the term 'culture wars' and while church leaders sometimes like to portray it as a fight b …

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• President Obama and the Black Vote

  Earlier this week, President Barack Obama articulated his view that same-sex couples should enjoy all the rights and privileges that all other Americans enjoy - including the right to marry.

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• THE SAFEST DAY IN US HISTORY FOR SHELTER PETS

  Source: No Kill Houston

  What is a day? There are many ways to answer that question. A day is 24 hours. A day is how we measure how much time we spend at work. But in U.S. animal shelters, a day represents 10,411 lives needlessly lost. To most people, June 11 is Just One Day, but it is a day that could c …

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