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Texas Gov. Rick Perry: In Texas for a substantially long period of time, our citizens have decided that if you kill our children, if you kill our police officers, for those very heinous crimes, that the appropriate punishment is the … Continue reading →

Secretary of State John Kerry on April 25:  “A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state … Continue reading →

Some powerful facts from an article by Eduardo Porter in the NYT: In 2012, 2.2 million Americans were in jail or prison, a larger share of the population than in any other country; and that is about five times the … Continue reading →

An editorial in today’s NYT documents how the Koch brothers and their “conservative” allies support a new tax on solar energy panels.  They particularly want to discourage homeowners from installing panels by putting a surtax on power that they sell … Continue reading →

Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson, on Friday, April 25, 2014  at 1:26pm: Beginning on Monday and all of next week, we will highlight emblematic cases of imperiled reporters and media outlets that have been targeted, oppressed, imprisoned or otherwise harassed … Continue reading →

In 2012 the top 1 percent of American households collected 22.5 percent of the nation’s income, the highest total since 1928. The richest 10 percent of Americans now take a larger slice of the pie than in 1913, at the … Continue reading →

In The Princess Bride, Mandy Patinkin gets the greatest line:  “My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father.  Prepare to die.” During a visit to CIA headquarters recently, he reportedly got a lecture from the man whose role he’s … Continue reading →

The Associated Press reports:  NASA’s Voyager I probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before. Thirty-six years after it rocketed away from Earth, the plutonium-powered spacecraft has escaped the sun’s influence and is now … Continue reading →

U.S. Government agencies charged with “protecting” us are, according to reports, working long and hard to make sure that our on-line activities are not protected.  Documents released by former intell officer Edward Snowden indicate that NSA is sabotaging all kinds … Continue reading →

Researchers have fund that, in the words of the New York Times, “The trillions of bacteria that live in the gut — helping digest foods, making some vitamins, making amino acids — may help determine if a person is fat … Continue reading →