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People's Perceptions

Musings About Life / Answers to Questions - from an assortment of people (famous and otherwise)

Notes from "The Rogue...Searching for the Real Sarah Palin"

Insight into the skewed thinking of a national figure right wing Christian extremist wacko.

Iraq pull out...editorial by Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald

As U.S. leaves Iraq, we shouldn’t forget how badly we erred

How Science Can Lead the Way...Lisa Randall (Time)

Today's politicians seem more comfortable invoking God and religion than they do presenting facts or numbers. Of course, everyone is entitled to his or her own religious beliefs. But when science and reason get shortchanged, so does America's future.

Republicans have three priorities that outrank plans to create jobs...

Eugene Robinson writes for the Washington Post.

Al Franken - Still Tellin the Truth....

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts...." Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Curious Capitalist...Rana Foroohar (Time)

Balanced-Budget Blues...If families have to balance budgets, governments should too, right? Wrong

Birthers: Say it like it is Marcos!

I couldn't have said it any better....

How Did the National Debt Develop?

The Baby and the Bathwater

WHATS BEHIND THE REBULICAN ASSAULT ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD?

Discourse re: The Prudence of Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Extract from a letter written by James Michener, October 20, 1995

Transcript: Az. Memorial Address

President Obama addresses Az Shooting Memorial January 12, 2011

GOP's Position on "BiPartisanship" Shows Where Their Loyalties Lie

Republicans in Congress show their true colors as rich, obstructionist, homophobes...

A Book to Read - Food for Thought About the Death Penalty

Here's an excerpt from a book I am reading - "The Autobiography of an Execution" by David R. Dow...

Glenn Beck's True Colors Showing Through

Is President Obama a Muslim?

The latest effort to discredit the President by the right-wing lunatic fringe...

Basketball vs Football on the Navajo Reservation...

As a high school junior ('65-'66) attending Window Rock High School in Fort Defiance AZ, I was a scrub football player but started at center for the basketball team. We went winless in football (0-10) but qualified for the Arizona state high school playoffs in basketball before being eliminated by the eventual Class A champions. This recent article on Window Rock High School sports says it all...deja vu all over again - 45 years later.

GOP abandons reality...this day...May 8, 2010

DANA MILBANK....Dana Milbank is distributed by the Washington Post Writers Group

Health Care Opinions - SacBee Letters

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FROM THE SACRAMENTO BEE - RESIDENT'S OPINIONS REGARDING THE HISTORIC HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL

What has the GOP unleashed?

AFTER VENOM FROM SOME LAWMAKERS, DEATH THREATS AND VANDALISM...Sacramento Bee - Views of the Editorial Board

Clinton Speaks up to Israelis

HILLARY CALLS ISRAEL'S ANNOUNCEMENT DURING VP BIDEN'S VISIT "AN INSULT."

Gays in the Military...

COURAGE UNDER POLITICAL FIRE.....Dana Milbank, Washington Post

Abortion - Death Penalty

KILLER'S END FORCES A LOOK AT LONG-HELD PRINCIPLES...Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald

Racism Role

CARTER: RACISM PLAYS ROLE IN OPPOSITION TO OBAMA

RWing Scare Tactics

FACTS AND OPINIONS BEHIND THE CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING'S TACTICS....musings of a retiree

Obama "Birther" drivel

OBAMA ISN'T A U.S. CITIZEN, THE EARTH'S FLAT, SUN'S COLD, ETC....Eugene Robinson - Washington Post

Obama has to be Bold

THE PRESIDENT HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO BE BOLD...E.J. Dionne (Washington Post)

Kowtowing to Limbaugh

GOP's KOWTOWING TO LIMBAUGH SHOWS WEAKNESS OF ITS SITUATION...Leonard Pitts Jr. (Miami Herald)

Bush Leaves a blot...

BUSH LEAVES A BLOT ON AMERICAN HISTORY...Bob Hebert (New York Times)

How Bush Won: Smear

FROM "THE TRUTH...WITH JOKES" ...By Al Franken

Restore Human Rights

US MUST LEAD WORLD IN RESTORING HUMAN RIGHTS....Jimmy Carter

Bush Legacy

TOO TOUGH ON BUSH, REALLY?....Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald

Another WPA?

IT'S TIME TO USE FEDERAL MUSCLE TO PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK...Bob Hebert, New York Times

White House to Deregulate

WHITE HOUSE MAKES LAST, BROAD PUSH TO DEREGULATE - CONTROVERSIAL MOVES TOUGH TO UNDO - R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post

Prop 8 & Sacto Mayor

PROPOSITION 8 & SACRAMENTO MAYORAL RACE PROLOGUE - excerpts from Marcos Breton, Sacramento Bee

Prop. 8 Faith Impact

FAITH WAS KEY FACTOR IN PROP. 8 VOTE - excerpts from Marcos Breton, Sacramento Bee

Ward Connerly on Prop. 8

MY VIEW / WARD CONNERLY - PROP. 8 (ON THE CALIFORNIA BALLOT) IS DISCRIMINATORY, PLAIN AND SIMPLE (printed in the Sacramento Bee)

Cal Supreme Court

COURT DID ITS JOB ON PROP. 8 - Peter Scheer (printed in the Sacramento Bee)
Peter Scheer, a lawyer and journalist, is executive director of the California First Amendment Coalition...

McCain Concession Speech

FULL TEXT

McCain Campaign Mistakes...

MCCAIN SEEMS SLOW TO LEARN FROM HIS CAMPAIGN'S MISTAKES - Bob Hebert, New York Times

Sarah Six-Pack...

IT'S SAD, BUT SARAH SIX-PACK IS THE REAL THING - Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald

Hurricane Katrina and Structural Racism: A Letter to White People

Jean Hardisty is an author, speaker, and commentator on the political right...

What Constitutes Marriage?

Norma Ming is a research scientist at the Nexus Research and Policy Center, a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and a wife and a mother of two.