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and the jokes keep right on coming .. Republicans have now appointed climate-change denier Senator Ted Cruz, as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on space, science and competitiveness, with responsibility for NASA and oversight of it’s work in monitoring climate change .. (story here)

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“Imagine if we broke out of these tired old patterns. Imagine if we did something different.” .. (President Obama, indulging in what is sadly wishful thinking during his recent ‘State of the Union’ address)

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cartoon refers to Pope Francis saying that Catholics do not need to breed ‘like rabbits’, .while re-affirming the church’s opposition to what it calls ‘artificial’ methods of birth control .. (story here)

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(Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

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