Persons can eat a healthy vegan diet for less than $5 a day. In many cases the foods that are best for our health are much cheaper than junk food. Food is perhaps the most important item in the typical person’s budget. We all eat, don’t we? But most of us can s …
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Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge Dies in Pennsylvania. Fracking Tax/Levy/Fee is a Bi-Partisan Hit. The tax will help pay for infrastructure damage caused by fracking. It is expected to be signed into law this week by Pennsylvania Governor Corbett.
Our society is becoming more deeply aware, thanks in part to the Occupy Wall Street movement, of the immense shift in values that has occurred over the past few decades. America has transformed from a country being embarrassed about its private drive to “k …
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Some scientists are beginning to understand that it is not "fact" that creates acceptance of new concepts, like evolution or global climate change, but rather our gut inclination to believe those facts. This is influenced by the culture and beliefs of people around us.
Holy Capitalism: Here is How The Republican Conservatives Take Religious Faith in God and Transform it into Economic Faith in the "Invisible Hand" of the Free Market.
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We, the Baby Boom Generation, victims of the immoral and illegal war against Viet Nam, decided and declared that our children would not be subject to a draft forcing them to serve in immoral and illegal wars. And it came to pass that the draft was abolished.
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Americans need to consider mandatory random drug testing - for Congress and the Supreme Court, and that's just for starters.
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Ideologies are systems of rationalization, abstractions removed from real life. One could assert that democracy could never work, or that feudalism would always work, that fascism was evil or good. Libertarianism could be the fuel of anarchy. Liberalism could be …
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Common Ground Between Conservatives and Liberals. Can You Feel it Growing? Too often, Liberals are so concerned with freedom for those conspicuously being abused by society that we forget to protect our own rights from erosion by corporate controlled government. Corpo …
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There is a great TED talk by Richard Wilkinson solid data on how economic inequality is harmful; the more inequality the greater the harm.
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Vegetarians has not initiated any private discussions.