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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe"

   - Albert Einstein

 

 

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep"

   - Albert Einstein  

 

 

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

Lonnie J. Burris
Activist & Concerned Citizen

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives"

   ◊  J.S. Mill

 

 

 

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Freedom from a Dead-End Life: True Liberty Means Defeating the Right-Wings Nightmare Vision of America

 

Understanding the Ideological Divide Between Liberals and Conservatives: Is It Possible for Us to Get Along?

 

How Religion's Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages

 

How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You

 

The Republican Party's Long Decline Leads to Irrationality

 

Is America on the Verge of a Theocracy? 4 Fundamental Ideologies Threatening U.S. Liberty

 

The Religious Rights Plot to Take Control of Our Public Schools

 

Why Rising Gas Prices Could Backfire on the GOP in November

 

Why the Era May Be Over for Blow Hard Right-Wing Extremists

 

Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum

 

Rush Limbaugh, The Koch Brothers and the Right Wing Echo Chamber (Video)

 

How Conservatives Silence Critics of Religion

 

5 Great Moments In History That Could Teach Christian Zealots Important Lessons

 

Ayn Rand Worshippers Should Face Facts: Blue States Are the Providers, Red States Are the Parasites

 

Why Progressives Can't Ignore Religion

 

Why Are GOP Candidates Competing to be the Greatest Friend of Israel? (Video)

 

How Team Obama, The GOP, and the Tea Partiers Are All Intruding On Your Rights

 

Conservatism Thrives on Low Intelligence and Poor Information

 

Money and Morals

 

Debunking the "Entitlement Society" Myth

 

5 Big Lies About the Phony 'War on Religion'

 

Why the Right Wing Is Petrified of Letting Voters, Instead of the Electoral College, Pick Presidents

 

Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals

 

The Republican Myth of Obama's "Entitlement Society"

 

The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty

 

Right-Wing Lunacy: The Shameless Lies Conservative Media Tell Their Audience

 

The 10 Most Brazen Lies Offered by the Remaining GOP Hopefuls

 

5 Republican Lies About Income Inequality

 

Who Wants to Vote Them Off the Island?

 

10 Ways Right-Wing Christian Groups Will Likely Shove Religion Down Your Throats This Year

 

The Hypocrisy and Stupidity of the GOP's Hatred of the EPA

 

8 GOP Primary Moments that Would Make Jesus Weep

 

Fault Line: Politics, Religion and the Tea Party (Video)

 

The GOP War on Democracy: How Conservatives Shamelessly Disenfranchise People Who Vote Democrat

 

How the GOP Tries to Transform American Into a Selfish,  Souless Place

 

The Real Reason the GOP Primary is a Pathetic, Incompetent Side Show

 

Wilkerson on GOP Race (Video)

 

Why the Republican Crackup Is Bad for America

 

GOP Again Holds Working America Hostage to Its Perverse Ideological Priorities

 

Grover Norquist's Real Game: Shifting Power and Wealth to the 1%

 

The Fall of the Liberal Elite

 

The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights

 

Not-Romney, But Dumber Than Dubya

 

The Shocking Republican Attack on the Environment and Our Drinking Water

 

When Did the GOP Lose Touch with Reality?

 

Has the GOP Become a Cult?

 

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over the GOP

 

Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

 

Senate Republicans Stand with Wall Street

 

US: 8 Reasons Why Ronald Reagan Was the Worst President of Our Lifetime

 

GOP Propaganda Guru Scared to Death of Occupy -- 10 Ways He's Trying to Spin the Movement

 

Sex Addiction Panic: The Conservative, Religious Push to Pathalogize Sexuality

 

5 Reasons the Religious Right Should Stop Whining About Being Persecuted

 

The Republican Party's Time Has Come - and Gone

 

Why Republican Economics Won't Work

 

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

 

Political Class Clowns

 

4 Reasons the Right-Wing Propaganda Machine Has Failed to Destroy OWS

 

End of the Reagan Narrative?

 

How Wall Street Occupied America

 

Rick Perry and the Bankruptcy of Modern Day Conservatives

 

People Distrust Government - Conservative Mission Accomplished

 

The Right Word

 

Radical Conservatives

 

Republican Jobs Plan: And Economy for the 1%

 

How Occupy Wall Street's Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous Conservative World View

 

The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

 

The Nihilist Party: Republicans Who Believe in Nothing

 

How the Right's Lame Attacks on Occupy Wall Street Shows the Poverty of Conservative Ideology

 

How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%

 

The Big Picture: A 40 Year Scan of the Right-Wing Corporate Takeover of America

 

Meet the Wealthy Men Trying to Buy Our Upcoming Election

 

By Cutting Taxes on the Rich, We've Incentivized Greed - How Do We Return to Fairness?

 

The Rise of the Pro-Ignorant Right Wing Puts Us All In Danger

 

6 Ways the Rich are Waging a  Class War Against the American People

 

The Winning Message: Time for the Rich to Pay It Forward

 

9 Policies Conservative Were For Long Before They Were Against Them

 

What Awful Reality TV and Suburban Living Have to do with the Tea Party's Lack of Empathy

 

How the Modern GOP Is Like a Death Cult

 

Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?

 

Recovering the Constitution from Conservatives

 

Constitutional Conservatives Don't Know the Constitution (Video)

 

Tea Party America

 

How 'Small Government' Conservatives Raise Your Taxes Through Stealthy Back-Door Fees

 

Inside the Christian Right Dominionist Movement That's Undermining Democracy

 

The GOP War on Voting

 

US Tiptoes Toward Theocracy

 

Understand the Right's Attack on Social Security

 

Tea Party Terror: An Unholy War to Gain Tyranny of the Majority

 

How to Rescue the American Dream from the GOP's Nightmare

 

Easier to Attack the Weak than the Wealthy (Video)

 

The Terrifying Christian Right

 

Meet the "Pea Party"

 

The Alarming Revival of Ayn Rand: The Right's Weirdest Idol of Them All

 

The Republican Spectrum of Ignorance

 

They Don't Really Care About Us

 

Why the Tea Party Is Wrong

 

Why the GOP Loves the Debt

 

A Grand Ole Cult

 

How Atheism Can Make the World Better By Tearing Down Religious Irrationality

 

Republicans: Trillions Could Be Cut from the Budget If We Eliminate Empathy

 

14 Propaganda Techniques Fox News "Uses" to Brainwash Americans

 

The President Shames Republicans for Resisting Shared Sacrifice

 

Why Do People Believe Stupid Stuff, Even When They're Confronted with the Truth?

 

Shock Doctrine: 'Emergency Finance Managers' and the Right-Wing's Power Grab

 

Franken: Republicans "Might as Well Be Tearing Stars Off Our Flag" (Video)

 

What "Cutting the Dept" Is Really About

 

Why Do Conservatives Presume that God Wants Them to Run for President? (He Probably Doesn't)

 

The Problem of Republican Idiots

 

The Fascinating Story of How Shameless Right-Wing Lies Came to Rule Our Politics

 

Republicans Announce Jobs Plan -This Time It's Different

 

Fantasy Island. Are Republicans Losing Their Grip on Reality?

 

Conservatives Have Defiled "Freedom" Long Enough -- It's Time for Liberals to Reclaim the Word

 

10 Great Things About America That Drive Conservatives and the Religious Right Insane

 

The Rights 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History

 

The Demise of the Moderate Republican

 

What Tea Partyers Ignore About the Founders

 

Shameless GOP Lies: Is There Any Limit to What Republicans Will Say -- and What People Will Believe?

 

The Truth About GOP Hero Ayn Rand

 

The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don't Know About

 

No We Can't

 

The New Republican Landscape

 

Conservative Tax Tricks - Did Tax Cuts Grow the Economy?

 

What Is ALEC? Dragging the Secretive Conservative Organization Out of the Shadows

 

The End of Compassion

 

The Right's Pushback against Taxing the Rich

 

Hedges: Power Concedes Nothing Without Demand -- We Must Say, "No!" to Wall St., the Kochs, and Our Cowardly Political Class

 

The Reagan Ruins

 

Reagan Celebration Hides Brutal History (Videos)

 

America's Next Failed Conservative Stimulus

 

Republicans Willing to Grow the Deficit and Wealth Gap to Help Nation's Richest

 

Religion As a Tool of Repression

 

Conservative's Perverse Notion That Economic Sabotage Can Win Them Elections

 

Mourning in America: Death of the Middle Class

 

Message to the Tea Party - What Took You So Long to Get Angry?

 

How Republicans and Their Big Business Allies Duped Tens of Millions of Evangelicals into Voting for a Corporate Agenda

 

The More Money You Make The More Likely You'll Vote Republican

 

How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP

 

Clash War Spurs Violent Clashed in Europe -- Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?

 

8 Nasty Conservative Lies About the Democrats and Obama That Must Be Debunked Before the Election

 

Tentherism: The Bizarre Ideology Behind the Tea Partier's Plan to Kill Social Security and Child Labor Laws

 

Are Tea Party Members Getting Played?

 

The Big Biz Behind GOP's 'Small Gov'

 

How Radical Christian Conservatives May Succeed in Destroying Democracy

 

J Street, the Moderate Antidote to AIPAC, Weathers Another Cheap Attack from the Right Wing

 

The Conservative Movement is Poised to Come to Power, Just as it Runs Off the Rails

 

GOP Runs on the "Big Lie"

 

Tea Party Socialism

 

8 Ways to Fight the Right-Wingers and Corporations Buying Off Our Government

 

Exposing the GOP's Shameful Historical Role in the Native American Genocide

 

Conservatives Push Absurd Lie that Wall Street Hustlers Were Innocent Victims... of Poor People

 

The Family: Secretively Christian Group of Lawmakers Building a 'God Led' Government

 

Conservatives Want to Raise the Retirement Age -- Doing That Now Would Be Stupid and Cruel

 

Tea Party Evolution: Now for a Theocratic America?

 

Sanders: GOP Obstructionism "Unprecedented"

 

Matt Taibbi: Tea and Crackers, How Corporate Interests and Republican Insiders Built the Tea Party Monster

 

Republican Party's New Ideas After Two Years of Soul Search: Same as Old

 

Do Republican Want to Bring Back Social Darwinism?

 

Bill Mayer: When Will Obscenely Rich A**holes Stop Crying About Taxes?

 

The Supper Rick Get Richer, and Everyone Else is Going Down the Drain

 

Republicans Are Pledging Allegiance to the Disastrous Policies of the Bush Years

 

GOP's "Pledge" to Rob the Middle Class: No Jobs, No Health Care, No Security

 

Social Security Con Artists Are Lying About One of the Strongest Arms of the Program

 

The Super-Rich Deserve Higher Taxes

 

10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do if They Take Over in November

 

How Right-Wing Billionaires and Business Propaganda Got Us into Economic Mess of the Century

 

Listening to Conservatives If Making Us Poorer and Poorer

 

More Tax Cuts for the Rich? No Way! -- 6 Key Points About the Tax Debate Raging in Washington

 

Incredibly Obvious Things In Front of Our Faces

 

Glenn Beck May Be a Clown -- But the Shady Right-Wingers Who Pull His Strings Are Dangerous

 

5 Ways the Tea Party Agenda Screws Tea Party Supporters

 

How Conservatives and the GOP Destroyed the "Traditional Family" They Claim to Treasure

 

At War on Our Own Soil - How Do We Fight Against the Right Wing?

 

The Money Behind Tea Parties: Get to Know Koch Industries

 

Days of Rage -- The Noxious Transformation of the Conservative Movement into a Ravage Fringe

 

Tax Cuts for the Rich Are Pure Theft

 

7 Ways the Republicans Want to Alter the Constitution They Claim to Hold Sacred

 

Lakoff: Why Conservatives Lies Spread and What Progressive Can Do to Fight Them

 

Hightower: Jobless People Suffer, While the GOP Helps the Rich Stay Rich

 

GOPs Final Attempt to Obstruct the Financial Reform Bill: Freeze All Regulations

 

Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?

 

Ralph Nader: The Scourging of Helen Thomas

 

Terrorism Derangement Syndrome

 

10 things That Terrify Right Wingers

 

Why Are So Many Christians Conservative?

 

Chomsky: How the Tea Partiers Are Getting Screwed by Their Own Idealogy

 

Party of No: How the Republicans and The Right Have Tried to Thwart All Social Progress

 

Can Threats and Living in a State of Anxiety Push People to Conservatism?

 

Bill Moyers & Thomas Frank: How America's Demented Politics Let the GOP Off the Hook for Their Giant Mess

 

Conservatives Are Rewriting the Bible to Free It from "Liberal Bias"

 

Right-Wingers Believe Ayn Rand's Every Word, But They Forget She Wrote Fiction

 

With Global Capitalism Exposed as a Sham, All the Global Elite Have Left Is Pure Force

 

Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politics of Vengeance

 

Washington Post Provided Bias Coverage of Tea Party Protest

 

Blue Dogs Have More to Lose Than Progressives

 

Conservatives Protest Obama's Nefarious Plot to Have Schoolchildren Learn Things in School

 

An Army of Home-Schooled "Christian Soldiers" on a Mission to "Take Back America for God"

 

Corporate Media Continue to Play to Conservative Arguments on Health Reform

 

5 Ways to Build a Fascist-Proof America

 

Lies About Health Care Reform Republicans Have Told Me

 

Have Republicans Turned Into a Weird Religious Cult?

The Commonwealth of Morons

 

The Threat Is Real: Why Right-Wing Rage at Town Hall Meetings Could Turn Deadly

 

Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Groups Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

 

The 'Me-First, Screw You Crowd' Are No Longer Hiding Their Antics

 

The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing

 

Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms

 

The Wall Street Health Care Connection: Fat Cats Want to Tax Your Benefits

 

Republican Hypocrisy Summed Up

 

Glenn Beck Thinks Progressives are Toxic - What Kind of America Does He Want?

 

Conservatives Party Like It's 1992: "The Government Is Giving All Your Money to Welfare Recipients!"

 

Newsflash: Populism Is Popular

 

Republicans Threaten to Become Bigger Assh*les

 

Republicans Are Shrinking: Sen. Specter's Defection Is a Promising Sign for the Dems

 

Bill Maher: The GOP Is Acting Like a Guy Who Got Dumped

 

Conservative Live in a Different Moral Universe -- and Here's Why It Matters

 

Right Wingers Aren't Stupid -- They're Just Betting That You're Ignorant

 

Hightower: Conservatives Are Blind, Deaf and Dumb to Class Warfare

 

10 Reasons Why Conservatives' Fiscal Ideas Are Dangerous

 

Crazy Conservatives Still Rallying Behind Obama Conspiracy

 

Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan (Thanks for Ruining America)

 

Now Is the Time to Shake Up Society at the Roots

 

Obama's Small Concession to Atheists Sets Off a Firestorm of Debate

 

For Decades, Right-Wingers Have Pushed Paranoia and Xenophobic Politics and Called It 'Moral Clarity'

 

The Bushies Stole Us Blind... So, How Would You Like Your Beer?

 

Progressive Revolution: We Can't Afford to Play Small-Ball and Tip-Toe Around Right-Wingers Anymore

 

So Long Worst President Ever; 10 Reasons Why History Will Hang You

 

10 Absurd Conservative Myths About Obama's Recovery Plan

 

Financial Meltdown Provides Final Verdict on Reaganomics

 

Republicans Fight Obama's Stimulus Plan, Fearing Its Success Will Mean Years of Oblivion

 

Let's Stay Focused on the Right Kind of Economic Recovery

 

Why the Right Will Oppose Getting Us Out of Recession

 

What We Can Learn from Conservatives About Winning in Politics (Part 1)

 

Learning from How Conservatives Push Their Cultural Worldview (Part 2)

 

How Did Conservatives Convince the Public to Think Different About Government? (Part 3)

 

Three Words Progressives Can Use to Win Elections

 

Meet Justin Krebs: Take-Action Hero and Not-So-Secret Agent of Change

 

How Conservatives Have Duped Us in the Global Warming Fight

 

How McCain Stays Popular Despite Supporting Disastrous Wars

 

How Washington's Right-Wing Wrecking Crew Robbed Us Blind

 

 

 

 

 

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