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What about the freedoms not related to guns?

August 2, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Democracy, Guns, Human Rights, Legal issues/Law One comment

If you watch enough news, if you listen to enough talk-radio, if you even read mainstream press, you might think that the only part

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Muslim women say: “Trump, can you hear us now?

August 2, 2016 Hafsa 2016 Election One comment

When Khizr and Ghazala Khan took the DNC by storm, calling out Donald Trump’s imbecilic Islamophobic comments, the Donald struck back… with more imbecility.

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Missouri primary ads: All guns, Islamophobia, no issues

August 2, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, Missouri region Leave a comment

The Republican primary commercials in Missouri are incredible.     Apparently one candidate supports bringing Islamic terrorists to Missouri, because he supported a plan

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Hillary is flawed, but so what

July 29, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

To say that Hillary Clinton is flawed is to say that she is human. So are the rest of us. I would have preferred

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Memes: A new form of old-school propaganda

July 27, 2016 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Language/Words, Media, Politics One comment

We have to talk about memes. I’m not joking, I swear. It’s kind of disturbing how much of political discourse on social media is

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There’s no crying in baseball, or politics

July 26, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Activism, Bernie Sanders, Campaigns, Democracy, Democrats, Politics, Progressive people, Religion in Politics One comment

As I watched some of the Bernie Sanders supporters at the Monday night session of the Democratic National Convention, I couldn’t help but think

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Community college offers “marry-me” cooking class

July 25, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Humor, Missouri region, Women One comment

This fall, “single ladies” interested in ensnaring a man can take a course at St. Louis Community College, listed in the catalogue as “Girls’

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A few words about a few words about open carry

July 22, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns, Media One comment

I have only a few words to say about how one media outlet talked about open carry at the Republican National Convention. I was

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Do we really need babysitters for Barettas?

July 15, 2016 Barbara Finch Crime/Violence, Guns One comment

Does the image of an armored truck, outfitted with 360-degree surveillance cameras and secured by body-camera-toting security guards, parked on the lot of a

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Bernie, Hillary, and body language

July 15, 2016 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

Yesterday, Bernie endorsed Hillary. Body language experts across the Web came to the same conclusion: They don’t like each other. They saw Hillary as

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A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

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