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Atheists often feel under attack in this country, founded in secularism, yet with growing numbers of people who practice an aggressive politically charged version of Christianity. The challenge is to go beyond anger, to firmly advance a reality based perspective while effectively navigating our political social order.

Once the name of a regularly-appearing series on DK3, History for Kossacks is now a DK4 group blog dedicated to the discussion and diarying of all things historical. Topics range from the impact of a'a' lava on ancient Hawaii to Zoroastrianism in Persia; time frame is from Australopithecus to Zulu hours today - so come on in to this dusty cave full of moldering tomes, have a seat in an overstuffed chair, and let's talk history!

Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and many other economists tell us we are in a crisis on inadequate demand, and need a large focus jobs, and economic stimulus focused on rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, key industries, and acclerating our conversion to sustainable clean energies, that will reduce of CO2 emissions, and oil imports. Government needs to lead the way, as well as provide regulation for the common good. Keynesian Kossacks believe some aspects of our common good are ...

We are a group of individuals who follow an economic school of thought called Modern Monetary Theory or MMT for short. It's a relatively new "post-keynesian" (despite some of the ideas it's based on actually influenced Keynes's theories) economic school of thought that starts with basic facts like "government can create all the money it wants" and ends with a way we could have both stable prices(i.e. low inflation) and truly FULL employment in this country. So if that sounds like a really good ...

The SciTech group is dedicated to the exploration of Science and Technology. We welcome all diaries, essays, and discussions that teach or explain the wonders of the universe.