Do not pass Go!

 

Freedom from and for religion

 

Gun Control Doesn't Work! Or Does It?

The GOP Agenda

 

 

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said in 2022, “The Republicans are pretty simple actually, and pretty straightforward. They say, ‘I want you to be very miserable, and I want you to be very angry. And I want you to vote for us, and we’ll make it worse, but we’ll blame them.’”

 

 “Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Changing or misquoting history damns you to repeat it

 

Justice Roberts' Supreme Court

 

update:

Rights of Church and State

Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal explains how the Constitution protects...

Some ideas on how to deal with politicians writing unconstitutional laws and cops learning how to cop

(edited for crappy grammar!)

All about Amy

 

Amy Coney Barrett belongs to a religious group called The People of Praise: "The highest office a woman can hold in the community is "woman leader" (formerly "handmaid")."

Trump’s Supreme Court pick has a problem with the Constitution

Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religious Beliefs Aren’t Off Limits

Amy Coney Barrett's Catholic faith, People of Praise ties likely to gain scrutiny in Supreme Court confirmation

Full cartoon here.

Fears for Obamacare if Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to supreme court

Judge Barrett’s writing criticizes the Supreme Court decision upholding Obama-era health law

Update 10/5: More than 1K alumni from Amy Coney Barrett's undergrad college sign letter of concern

Besides getting orange dye out of the carpets...

Back to the future

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Standing up for logic and reason

Missouri tries to pass a 'Right to Pray' act that sneaks in a part about kids being able to refuse to be taught about evolution and science.  Death threats to the woman reporter who wrote the expose.

Teaching people not to smoke:



A simple explanation of how 'Obamacare' works.

Birth control pills work.

Protecting our bees.

If only all our political arguments were this simple.

Or religious ones.

One really good way to ruin your Saturday?

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‘Cut Budgets to Kill Jobs’ – And 4 More GOP Schemes to Rig the 2012 Election

11 Reasons Why the Unemployment Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think

Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Making it clear.

Be afraid of Sharia law sneaking in and perverting our Constitution!1!! ... because we actually want to allow Christianity to sneak in and pervert our Constitution.

Our new Congress ignores its own brand new rule

Of having to cite where in the Constitution the legislation applies:

Thank god for Weiner and Waxman!

Update: Didn't mean to snub Congresswoman Schakowsky either.

The Constitution

Note to Republicans... reading the Constitution in the House is fine. Skipping or glossing over anything is not. Read ALL the amendments too. And really listen to what it says. Knowing the history about why they dumped the Articles of Confederation would be helpful.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

By the way... the Constitution is a legal document. It is not a religious icon.

Shut up shut up shut up!1!

Or you will get stomped, handcuffed, threatened, and wrestled to the ground. All because teabaggers love God, the Constitution, and free speech....

Update: waterboarded....

Says right there in black and white....

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Update: Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist association in Connecticut.:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

Update10/21: The Dunning–Kruger effect which is apparently the strongest in Americans:

Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

tend to overestimate their own level of skill;

fail to recognize genuine skill in others;

fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;

recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they can be trained to substantially improve.