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Letter from James Thompson on the special election Tuesday
I received the following letter from James Thompson and I decided to publish it here on this site. –SJ Otto:I am so proud, and you should be too. We may have come up short in this election, but in many...
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Easter —Pope Francis is one of the more positive aspects of Christianity today
By SJ OttoEaster is the highest holy day in the Christian Calendar. It's been a few decades since I left the Catholic Church. I now consider myself an Epicurean. So I'm not even a Christian. One thing...
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Trump hits lowest approval rating ever as per new Pew poll
From Daily Kos:By fatherjack Trump might have won the elections (which again is controversial), but he couldn’t win the hearts of the people. We believed that at least his supporters who voted for him...
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The Idiot Trump vs. North (Democratic People's Republic Korea) Korea
By SJ OttoBefore he was elected Donald Trump said he would focus on America first and stop the obvious imperialism. Now we see that he is a liar and he has back tracked. Now he is "Mr. Imperialism" and...
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Marched in Wichita- to support science and oppose science skepticism on...
By SJ OttoPeople still believe in science and that was evident today as more than 2,000 people marched from the old Historical Sedgwick County Courthouse, here in Wichita, Kansas, to the Mid-America...
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Estes to vote Trump's way—but only before happy hour
By SJ OttoI went to a fund raiser for the Democratic Party of South Sedgwick County Saturday Night. It was there that I heard James Thompson, who ran as a Democrat for the 4th district for the US House...
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Trump’s bigotry could shut down government
From Amnesty International:Five days from now, the government could shut down – grinding vital services to a halt. Why? Because President Trump could keep his campaign promise to close the U.S. borders...
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The 30th anniversary of the Take Back The Night March- Wichita, KS
By SJ OttoEvery year theWichitaAreaSexualAssaultCenter holds its Take Back the Night March. This year was the 30 anniversary of this march. The crowd was not as big as it was from some earlier marches,...
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May Day- 2017
Today is International Workers day, May Day.Many left-wing parties began celebrating this day, to commemorate the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on 4 May 1886.This year the celebration...
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Buy I Am Pol Pot for summer reading
Want something interesting and challenging to read this summer? How about a I Am Pol Pot. Here is an historical interpretation of what the former dictator of Kampuchea might have been like if he had...
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Trump and Republicans are determined to kill off health care for the poor
By SJ OttoOnce again President Donald Trump and his minions are attempting to gut and render useless the Affordable Care Act (known by most as Obamacare). The Republicans are coming up with changes to...
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Protesters stage a die-in aimed at the slacker US Representative Ron Estes
By SJ OttoA die in was staged for our slacker USRepresentative Ron Estes, at 7701 E. Kellogg, here in Wichita, KS, on Friday Morning. More protests will be held against our slacker Representative in...
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Privatised Affordable Housing Program Costs More, Shelters Fewer
Day after day I drive my wife to work and each day we pass a McDonald's. One thing I can always see are homeless people. I keep reading that our Kansas governor has cut back on welfare and most of...
View Article1970- Four dead in Ohio
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guardopened fire on a group of students who were demonstrating against President Richard Nixon’s Cambodian invasion Campaign. He had just ordered troops and bombers...
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Housing Vouchers get blocked by a US disease—Classism
By SJ OttoJust the other day I was listening to a piece on NPR, on my car radio, and they had an interview that really disturbed me. It turns out that a program the government runs to help low income...
View ArticleSome Mother's Day songs
Pink Floyd - MotherJohn Lennon - MotherMotherely love, Mothers of Invention
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How I Always Win the Abortion Argument
From Daily Kos:By SemDem This past Friday, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed the deceptively named “Tennessee Infants Protection Act,” a bill that does nothing for infants but prohibits physicians...
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Standoff in Venezuela
This is not a Marxist blog. We mostly cover liberal and Democratic Socialist movements, both at home and abroad. The government in Venezuela is a democratic socialist government. That is the kind of...
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Donald Trump visits Saudi Arabia—an absolute monarchy and absolute dictatorship
By SJ OttoThis week President Donald Trump visited a dictatorship where political power is handed down from the leader to his children. While that has been done in North (Democratic People's Republic)...
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Another un-necessary attack on women's rights by conservative legislators
A report from Julie Burkhart, Founcer and CEO of Trust Women Foundation:Legislators gutted SB 83 — a bill about propane safety — late last week, and they are subbing the contents of HB 2319, the "font...
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