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Against Same-Sex Marriage? You Are On The Wrong Side Of History
10 May 2012People were against freeing the slaves. People were against giving women the right to vote. People were against equal rights for blacks and other minorities. People were against gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. What do these people have in common? They are all on the...
President Obama Announces Support For Same-Sex Marriage
09 May 2012A couple of days ago I started the new poll question, "When will President Obama publicly support same-sex marriage?" The choices were "Before election", "Second term (if elected)" and "Never". When I started the poll I never imagined we'd have the answer so soon. I just closed the poll af...
North Carolina Constitutional Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Passes Popular Vote
08 May 2012Who would have thought a southern state would vote to limit rights? In a display of intolerance and backwards thinking, North Carolina voters went to the polls on Tuesday and voted for "Amendment 1" which will amend the state constitution to say the only recognized "domestic legal partners...
Pennsylvania Sued By 93-Year-Old Woman Over Discriminatory Voter ID Law
08 May 2012Yes, Pennsylvania'a new voter ID law (and similar laws in other states) are in fact discriminatory. I don't care about rationaliz...
Connecticut Senate Passes Medical Marijuana Legislation
05 May 2012Early Saturday the Connecticut Senate passed a bill that would allow the use of medical marijuana in the state. The measure alread...
America Has The Best Health Care? Not In A Fact-Based World.
04 May 2012The United States of America has the highest health care costs of 13 industrialized countries with an average cost of $8,000 per p...
The Catholic League's Campaign Against Jon Stewart
19 April 2012On the April 16, 2012 episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a segment mocking Fox News criticism of the phrase "war on w...
Daily Caller Writer No Longer Suffers From 'White Guilt'
09 April 2012Mark Judge says his "white guilt died on Good Friday, April 6, 2012." That was the day his bike was stolen while attending Eas...
Sacramento County Treats Sex Assault 'Victim' Like A Criminal
06 April 2012Do yourself a favor, next time you are in Sacramento County, California, don't become a victim of sexual assault or you might ...
Health Care Is Rationed By Private For-Profit Insurance Companies. Is That Really What We Want?
06 April 2012We are told by conservatives that we don't want government-run universal health care because it would mean rationing care. During...
Gallup: Top 3 Most And Least Religious States
28 March 2012A new Gallup poll shows Mississippi is the most religious state and Vermont is the least religious state. Eight states in all hav...
Reason Rally: Bad Religion
24 March 2012Bad Religion takes the stage. I've been standing for 8 hours now! But it's been worth it. Hopefully these pictures today haven...
Reason Rally: Richard Dawkins
24 March 2012note: Better photos are now available in the Reason Rally - Photo Essay...
Reason Rally: Tim Minchin
24 March 2012And yes, it is raining. note: Better photos are now available in the Reason Rally - Photo Essay...
Reason Rally: Greta Christina
24 March 2012note: Better photos are now available in the Reason Rally - Photo Essay...
Reason Rally: Adam Savage (MythBusters)
24 March 2012note: Better photos are now available in the Reason Rally - Photo Essay...
Reason Rally: The Rally Begins
24 March 2012Shelley Segal performs note: Better photos are now available in the Reason Rally - Photo Essay...
Reason Rally: 'The Largest Gathering Of The Secular Movement'
23 March 2012[Update] Photo Essay: Reason Rally - Washington D.C. - March 24, 2012 Tomorrow I will be braving the rain to attend the Rea...
19 States Still Permit Spanking Children In Public Schools
18 March 2012NPR reports that 19 states still allow spanking (paddling) in public schools. This might come as a shock to many in the North,...
Catholic Priest Who Denied Communion To Lesbian Confirms Bigotry
15 March 2012Father Marcel Guarnizo, the Catholic priest who denied communion to a lesbian at her mother's funeral has confirmed his bigotr...
Atheists Might Reach Majority Over Christians In England In 20 Years
11 March 2012This is likely to put a scare in the religious right in this country, possibly causing even more nonsense like the recent birt...
Former USDA Scientist: 'Pink Slime' In 70 Percent Of Ground Beef
08 March 2012Gerald Zirnstein, a former United States Department of Agriculture scientist, is alerting the public that 70% of ground beef s...
Peter Gabriel to Rush Limbaugh: Don't Use My Songs 'As The Bed Track For Prejudice Or Hatred'
07 March 2012If you watched the video of Rush Limbaugh's hate-filled words towards Sandra Fluke you probably noticed a song playing in the ...
BP Oil Spill Continues To Devastate Gulf Of Mexico Fishermen
05 March 2012Al Jazeera reports that after almost two years, the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is still causing devastation to com...
NHL 'You Can Play' Ad Campaign To Support Gay, Lesbian Equality
04 March 2012A new advertising campaign featuring NHL players began during Sunday's New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins match-up on NB...
NPS Expects Early Bloom For National Cherry Blossom Festival In D.C.
02 March 2012Here's a story to distract, albeit briefly, from the right-wing nonsense. The National Park Service is predicting an early pe...
Anti-Obama Delusion: A Judge, A Racist Email, And A Half-Apology
01 March 2012The delusional anti-Obama crowd now has one more certified member, Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull of Billings Montan...
If Only You Had Money, You'd Know How Hard It Is To Be Wealthy
01 March 2012I had to rub my eyes, check the calendar and take a brisk walk to clear my head after reading (Bonus Withdrawal Puts Bankers i...
Santorum, the Netherlands, Euthanasia and Hypocrisy
25 February 2012On February 3rd, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum had some interesting remarks about the Netherlands when he spoke at ...
U.S. Crime Rates 1960-2010: The Facts Might Surprise You
23 February 2012If you watch the news you might be under the impression that the United States is in bad shape when it comes to crime. Every n...
Women's Rights, Senator Toomey, And The Roy Blunt Amendment
16 February 2012Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) is not happy about the Obama administration's compromise on birth control. It appears Blunt will only...
New York Times/CBS Poll: Clear Support For Birth Control Coverage
15 February 2012The latest New York Times/CBS poll shows clear public support for birth control coverage on insurance plans. On contraceptive...
Chris Christie Thinks South Should Have Voted On Civil Rights
13 February 2012In a breathtaking display of ignorance, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently said, "The fact of the matter is, I think ...
Washington Becomes 7th State To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
13 February 2012There have been many victories for gay rights in the past week. Last week California's same-sex marriage ban, prop 8, was r...
Why We Don't Vote On Rights, Summarized In A Question
09 February 2012Washington state is just days away from becoming the 7th state to legalize same-sex marriage and an appeals court has ruled C...
California Same-Sex Marriage Ban (Prop 8) Ruled Unconstitutional
07 February 2012In what is sure to be called judicial activism by some on the Right, an appeals court ruled California's same-sex marriage ban a...
Did Chrysler, Clint Eastwood Super Bowl Ad Win Obama 2nd Term?
05 February 2012OK, that might be just a bit over-the-top, but the Chrysler Super Bowl ad "It's Halftime In America" narrated by Clint E...
Reality Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias, And So Do Our Values
05 February 2012now with 99% more liberal bias - tagline of The Left Call "reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert The ab...
Starve The Beast, Starve The Children: An Education Crisis
27 January 2012An article on CNN's Schools of Thought blog titled - My View: An Education crisis that never should have happened - paints a g...
Martin Luther King Jr. - A Collection Of His Words
16 January 2012A collection of quotes for MLK Day, sourced from The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. An individual has not started living ...
James O'Keefe: A Voter Fraud Stunt By A Paranoid Wingnut
11 January 2012You may remember James O'Keefe, the conservative activist who exposes - what he believes to be - injustices by video recording ...
Mayweather: Celebrities and the Judicial System
08 January 2012I begin by pleading ignorance to the facts of this domestic violence case involving boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., but I feel the...
Santorum, Welfare, and Black People
03 January 2012I'm going to say what most other people won't say... When a white conservative thinks welfare, what skin color do they see? Rick...
Many Can't Afford Health Care While 1% Reap Benefits
03 January 2012I don't know how else you sum up this article from The Atlantic Wire today: Health Care CEO's Lavish Pay Package Shows How the 1%...
Imagine Cee Lo Green's Lyric Change In Reverse
02 January 2012Cee Lo Green changed a key lyric in John Lennon's Imagine during NBC's New Years Eve show. Instead of "Nothing to kill or die for,...
Occupy Wall Street: Bad Apples In The Big Apple
27 September 2011I want to preface this post by saying I generally give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the police. They have dangerous...
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Officially History
20 September 2011It is hard to believe it was December, 19th 2010 when I wrote my post titled Don't Ask Don't Tell is Dead, Done, Gone. It would b...
Wall Street: Occupied
17 September 2011Daily updates posted below article. Also see: Occupy Wall Street: Bad Apples In The Big Apple Today hundreds if not thou...
Jefferson's Wall of Separation
16 September 2011If dogma isn't clouding your judgment then a wall of separation between church and state probably seems like a good idea. However,...
Progress In Lower Manhattan - 9/11 at Ten
10 September 2011There are countless 10th anniversary remembrances in the form of stories, recounts, songs and poems. I lack an eloquent speech or...
Liberals Are Not About Spreading The Wealth
05 September 2011Liberals do not fall within the "spread the wealth" framework that conservatives have constructed. In response to spreading the...
Newborn Mortality And The Hidden Health Care Story
01 September 2011A new study published by PLoS Medicine tracks newborn mortality rates in 193 countries from 1990 to 2009. While newborn deaths wor...
Unfounded Health Care Opposition
21 August 2011If you were part of the opposition to health care reform in 2009 and 2010 then you only have yourself to blame if ultimately the...
Assuming The Worst In People
02 August 2011If you expect to have a free society where everyone's civil liberties are equally as important then public policy cannot be formul...
Don't Ask Don't Tell is Dead, Done, Gone
19 December 2010Apparently these ducks aren't so lame after all. First I'd like to say that I don't intend to get too controversial on this b...
