Saturday, April 25, 2015

The "Restrain Steve King from Legislating" Act

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This is just too delicious to pass up as a followup to ShrinkRap's April 23 post on Rep. Steve King, "Yelling STOP."   Th...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Is Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership a good thing? Or is it bad for U. S. workers?

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Frankly, it feels uncomfortable to have a big issue in which so many Democrats in Congress are opposing President Obama . I want to trust ...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Yelling "STOP" -- after the tsunami has already passed over

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That heading, " Yelling STOP after the tsumani has already passed over ," is the metaphor that came to mind when reading Rep. Pete...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Pope Francis gives U. S. nuns back the control of their organization

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Long-time readers of ShrinkRap know of my sharp criticism of the previous Pope Benedict for his utter imbalance (in my view) of church theol...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Update on the Lynch nomination

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Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Patty Murphy (D-WA) have reached a compromise on the human trafficking bill and it's proposed abortion a...

Some things that took less time than getting Loretta Lynch confirmed for Attorney General

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Loretta Lynch was nominate d to be Attorney General .  She sailed through the confirmation hearings, and no one has raised any significant...
Monday, April 20, 2015

The cost of gun violence in the U.S.

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The Mother Jones issue of May/June 2015 has an informative article about the cost of gun violence in the U.S.   We often see statistics ab...