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Taking our money when we’re not looking

Like having to pay for the clean up of Walmarts illegally dumping toxic waste, where tax payers involuntarily subsidize the profits of the Walton family, we are having to pay to make up the difference between a fair and significantly higher wage, and for the Walmart unfair, discriminatory and illegal labor practices, with the Walton [...]

Accountability and Accounting

The right wing politicos and their supporters like to whinge on and on and on, beating the drum of personal accountability. My observation is that you almost never, ever see any actual taking of responsibility by the right for the results of their policies or what they do legislatively. We see this in the failure [...]

Pistol

Illegal guns and the Boston Bombers (alleged)

We’ve heard repeatedly from the gun-huggers that if we pass gun control, only the criminals will have guns. Never mind that in every comparably developed country in the eastern and western hemisphere, where there is effective gun control, there is less crime committed involving guns, far fewer suicides involving guns, and far fewer accidents involving [...]