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Panich52

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January 20, 2015

GOP hates facts

DailyKos list are some of the actualities RWers refuse to admit

10 facts guaranteed to short-circuit Republican brains

1. US isn't a Christian nation & Bible isn't cornerstone of our law
2. Pledge of Allegience was written by a socialist
3. 1st president to propose national health insurance was a Republican
4. Reagan once signed a bill legalizing abortion
5. Reagan raised federal taxes 11 times
6. Roe v Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a predominantly Republican-appointed SCOTUS
7. Federal Reserve System was a Republican invention
8. Environmental Protection Agency was, too
9. Pres Obama has increased govt spending less than any POTUS in at least a generation
10. Pres Obama was not only born in the US, his roots are deeper in American history than most know (think Revolutionary War)

Link provides expanded info:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/04/1127663/-Ten-True-Facts-Guaranteed-to-Short-Circuit-Republican-Brains?detail=email

January 20, 2015

Blame zealotry, not Islam

America’s 10 worst terror attacks by Christian fundamentalists and far-right extremists

"Far-right white male radicals and extreme Christianists are every bit as capable of acts of terrorism as radical Islamists, and to pretend that such terrorists don’t exist does the public a huge disservice." -- Alex Henderson, Alternet

Full story on RawStory:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/americas-10-worst-terror-attacks-by-christian-fundamentalist-and-far-right-extremists/

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About Panich52

Ancestral WV hillbilly & old-style liberal who believes in US Constitution & detests RW revisionism of its principles (esp Establishment Clause)
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