Take a walk with me as I talk about homelessness, the Occupy movement, the inherent problems with capitalism, and the myth that public aid recipients are lazy bums… Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
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Daily Archives: July 8, 2012
Republic Affair Podcast: Are People On Public Aid Lazy?
David Barton's Pseudo-History on the 700 Club
Here’s David Barton spewing his pseudo-history for the July 4, edition of the 700 Club. Barton’s book is saturated with politically motivated historical narratives that are simply untethered to the actual historical record. To claim that Jefferson subscribed to “orthodox” Christianity is truly insane. Jefferson was a harsh critic of Christianity, who loathed Christian...
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Quote of the Day: Benjamin Franklin, Public Property
Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris 25 Dec. 1783 The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People’s Money out of...
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Tennessee Teabaggers Demand Textbooks Omit Slavery
In the ongoing right-wing effort to twist historical reality into a mythological narrative that fits their theocratic political agenda,Tea Party groups in Tennessee are now demanding that school textbooks overlook the long history of slavery and racism in the United States: Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder’s Slave-Owning History A...
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