For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in...
A most interesting article from Alternet, looking at the reasons for numbers of young people taking to the streets and risking arrest and possible police brutality to make their voices heard.
By David Graeber
With No Future Visible, Young Activists Have...
Toby Keith, Democrat, says:-
I don’t know, but I expect the wealthy to write a check ’cause it’s as bad as it’s ever been. It would be unpatriotic not to try to save the country. I’m sure people will bitch about it,...
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's words are as true today as they were over 160 years ago when he first spoke...
Last week, I was here in Las Vegas to celebrate the end of DADT. Once (and hopefully future) Congresswoman Dina Titus discussed what happened in the last session of Congress to make this happen, and representatives from Harry Reid's...
I truly think Californian Democratic "operative" David O Atkins needs to listen to this song:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT7CVDiCDQI
If he's a good boy, drinks his milk and goes to bed early and reads his history, he'll find that song applied to all but...
In recent months, we have seen a drastic and alarming increase in the number of laws passed that would restrict a woman's right to choose. After the elections of 2010 when the Republicans swept many state legislatures and governorships,...
It wasn't an easy ride to Tonopah on Saturday, especially not since NDOT had construction delays near Goldfield. So many of us from Vegas were already in a crabby mood when the NSDP Central Committee meeting got started. And...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GFg_pnLmq4
It's ironic that this song was out around the time the Democratic Party imploded the first time. That was before most of this generation of whiners was about, so they wouldn't remember. What's even more oxymoronic is that some...
http://youtu.be/Rz15MC69ke4
This was the scene outside Dean Heller's Las Vegas office today. While Senator Dean Heller (R-"Tea Party") continues to oppose anything he considers "not good enough", meaning not painful enough for working class Nevadans, our country faces deep problems....
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