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OPEC nations are not huge recipients of non-military US foreign aid. Our “aid” to Saudi Arabia involves congress giving them permission to pay our defense contractors vast sums of money. Knowing all this, why do we feel entitled to dictate how quickly other soveriegn nations sell off a natural resource that is often their only source of wealth?

The Republican National Committee launched a new website to accuse Barak Obama of bad judgment in who he accepts donations from, but failed to do their homework which shows that the titular head of the organization accepted $5,000 from the same donor!

I always keep an eye out for interesting resources that can help me - and others - make sense of the world. I found one a couple weeks ago and I’d like to share it. The U.S. Department of State issues publications called “Background Notes” for 200 nations around the world.

On Wednesday, Senate Republicans filibustered the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law that would have overturned an appalling Supreme Court decision that practically abolished remedies for gender-based compensation discrimination in the workplace. (see: Republicans Filibuster Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act)
This Act is designed to address the problems faced by workers of both [...]

As some people know, I have been dealing with a health issue involving a colleague at work and have not had the time I normally would have in the evenings to write blog posts.
Yesterday however, I ended up writing a very lengthy comment in response to Will Taft’s blog post Why Obama Might Be Our [...]

Over in the forums at Patchwork Nation on the Christian Science Monitor website there has been a short discussion on the topic of “Election to be decided by political center”. I stated writing a reply to the initial post last night but after a couple sentences I decided I needed to think about it [...]

I realized I hadn’t posted any bash.org quotes for a while and when I went to look I came across several that I wanted to share.  I’ve been using IRC since well.. for a very very long time (remember BEFORE DalNET came and went?)  and I don’t remember bash.org ever having this many political quotes.  [...]

The Christian Science Monitor has a new project called Patchwork Nation on their website. 

About the Patchwork Nation project
Nearly 305 million people live in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. Yet in recent elections it’s all been about fitting into two categories: red states that vote Republican and blue states that vote Democratic. [...]

I was looking at the numbers from yesterday’s Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont primaries and I noticed that the trend that I noted in my post called Beyond the Primaries back on February 14th was continuing.  Republicans seem to be sitting out this election.  I know many people may feel that the reason for [...]