The movement in our country to defund public education and shift tax money to private and/or religious schools is not going away. Five years ago,
Category: Religion in Politics
What and why the religious right lost in the 2012 election
Taken together, four letters to the New York Times editor, posted on Nov. 19, 2012, sum up what happened to the supposedly all-powerful religious
Legislature overrules, women pay
Earlier this week [Sept. 12, 2012], the Replubican-dominated Missouri Legislature overturned Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that allows employers to deny
Profiles in courage: 2012 edition
The true democracy . . . puts its faith in the people –faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent
I support vouchers, except in 50 states
Back in the 1970s, when the presumed (though not necessarily true) reflections of the 1960s still shined a bit, I was involved in the
Pray anywhere? Read the fine print first
Recent polling shows that 82 percent of Missouri voters favor the so-called “Pray Anywhere” constitutional amendment on the August 7 [2012] ballot. Well, sure
The message battle in Missouri
Republicans seem to own a combination of political phenomena which are extremely injurious to the country. They have the worst of ideas, largely insensitive
No God? No office! 7 states ban atheists from holding office
Non-believers need not apply. According to AlterNet, in seven U.S. states, if you don’t recognize the existence of a supreme being, you are banned
When reason comes from the mainstream media, it means so much more
An internal argument among progressives is whether MSNBC is an honest, objective source of broadcast news or whether it is just a liberal foil
Stupid legislative tricks: Missouri edition
The silly—and nasty—season in Jefferson City, Missouri came to a merciful end last night [May 18, 2012], with the customary cheers and sophomoric tossing-in-the-air