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Bill Maher Fights Birthers With 'Wifers'

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - May. 26 (Comedy News) - Maher introduced the concept of "Wiferism," the belief that Romney is a secret polygamist. Using classic "Birther" rhetoric, he showed just how easy it is to create a controversy out of nothing:

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Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Sara Robinson - May. 12 (Opinion) - 'Make no mistake: all this Ayn Rand libertarian me-first-and-the-rest-of-you-go-to-hell stuff - the there's-no-government-like-no-government theology..

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Deciphering Right-Wing Code: What Conservatives Are Really Saying When They Seem to Spew Nonsense

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sara Robinson - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - Even though right-wing narratives are often factually wrong, they are absolutely never content-free. Stories like this are always about something. And the weirder and more factually challenged they sound to liberal ears, the more important it probably is for us to know what that something is. Too often, our obsession with the gobsmacking wrongness of these statements deafens us to clues to the right's current motives and intentions that are frequently lurking in these strange declarations.

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Greatest Country in the World, or Biggest Joke? TN Educators Can Soon Teach Students Total Nonsense

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By BooMan - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - They've taught evolution in Tennessee for my entire life, and I'm 42 years-old. I guess they're still going to teach evolution in Tennessee's schools, but now they are also going to teach whatever the hell they want, including that evolution is a pile of b.s. Their moronic governor is going to sign a new law

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Supreme Court's Religious Frenzy

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - What exactly are these people praying for? Are they praying for a return to the way things were? For the denial of health insurance due to whatever the whimsical opinions of corporate bureaucrats determine to be a pre-existing condition? For the right to be thrown into an overpriced, endlessly gouging 'marketplace' the moment when you turn 25, and you're burdened anyway with usurious student loans?' Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Magazine

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15 Ways the Bible Is Used by Christians and the GOP to Control and Malign Women

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Valerie Tarico - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - take it from reformer John Calvin: “Woman is more guilty than man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading to all perdition. It is necessary that woman recognize this, and that she learn to what she is subjected; and not only against her husband. This is reason enough why today she is placed below and that she bears within her ignominy and shame.”

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Doonesbury Comic Strip, March 12, 2012 on GoComics.com

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

gocomics.com - By Garry Trudeau - Mar. 12 (Comedy News) - "The Shaming Room"

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Rush Limbaugh backs child kidnappers

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

care2.com - By Paul Canning - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - The LRA have kidnapped thousands of children across central Africa, raped them and forced them to be soldiers. Their leader, Joseph Kony, was indited by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2005 for numerous atrocities. There are 33 charges, 12 counts of crimes against humanity, which include murder, enslavement, sexual enslavement and rape. There are another 21 counts of war crimes which include murder, cruel treatment of civilians, intentionally directing an attack against a civilian population, pillaging, inducing rape and forced enlisting of children into the rebel ranks. ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said that “Kony was abducting girls to offer them as rewards to his commanders.” Some of the children are forced to hide every night to avoid kidnapping. This is the ‘Christian’ Limbaugh is defending.

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GOP Fiscal Proposals Are Sound 'If You Believe In Magic'

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Paul Krugman - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that’s what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama's deficits are leading us toward a "Greece-style collapse." So why is Mr. Romney offering a budget proposal that would lead to muc

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The Sad Race for Bottom on the Loony Right

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Robert Reich - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - even if they lose the presidency on Election Day they’re still likely to be in charge of at least one house of Congress as well as several state legislators and governorships. That’s a problem for the nation.

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Billionaire Bigot Bankrolling Mitt Romney

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Kos - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - In a column sure to rain lawsuit threats down upon him, Glenn Greenwald exposes many of the scandals surrounding Mitt Romney's national finance co-chair, Idahoan Frank VanderSloot. VanderSloot is a billionaire whose deep pockets have funded no small number of Idaho's political figures. As Greenwald details, his business practices have drawn plenty of unwanted attention, as has his involvement in numerous far-right causes, particularly his anti-gay activism, including running a billboard campaign against Idaho Public Television for running a documentary about teachers talking about lesbian and gay issues in age-appropriate ways. His wife, Belinda, donated $100,000 to California's Prop 8 campaign.

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WATCH: Amy Poehler & Seth Meyers Sound Off On Birth Control

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers - Feb. 19 (Comedy News) - Amy Poehler got back to her "Weekend Update" roots on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend when she joined former co-host Seth Meyers for a "Really?!?"...

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The Tragic Story of Christianity: How a Pacifist Religion Was Hijacked by Rabid Warmongering Elites | | AlterNet

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Gary G. Kohls - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - Altogether too many religions sects of both major and minor religions, despite verbally professing a desire for peace and justice in the world, are actually pro-war, pro-homicide and pro-violence in practice (or they may be silent on the subject, which is, according to moral theology, the same as being pro-violence).

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Stephen Colbert Follows Pat Robertson's Advice, Overwhelms God With Prayer (VIDEO)

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Stephen Colbert - Jan. 06 (Comedy News) - video

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The Christmas War on Atheism: What's the Religious Right Whining About When It's Really Non-Believers Who Are Under Attack?

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Alex DiBranco - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - It’s that time of year when, if you tune into Fox News or right-wing talk radio, you’re sure to hear the phrase “war on Christmas” repeated ad infinitum. Perhaps you’ve also seen Rick Perry’s new war on Christmas ad, which gives the added gift of rabid homophobia, while absurdly accusing President Barack Obama of leading a war on religion. But in reality, this year, like most years, it's right-wing Christians who are waging a war on the right of non-believers to avoid having religion shoved down their throats. Say “Merry Christmas” -- or Else

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Fact checking the AP fact checker

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Power Line - By Scott Johnson - Dec. 20 (Opinion) - According to Pete Yost last week in a superficial AP fact check story: “Republican presidential candidates have claimed that the Obama administration is cleansing government files of references to radical Islam, an assertion so juicy that politicians keep repeating it — even though it’s a wild exaggeration.” But I think the GOP candidates have it right, more or less, and Yost has it wrong. At least they are closer to the mark than Yost. See, for example, Cliff May’s NRO column “What’s Islam got to do with it?” (May cites a report by the Westminster Institute’s Katharine C. Gorka that notes: “Key national security documents have already excised all terminology that associates terrorism with Islam or Islamic concepts such as jihad.”) See also “Obama administration pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says.” (The story quotes purposefully ambiguous comments made by Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole at the George Washington University law school. My call yesterday to the Department of Justice for clarification went unreturned.)

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Christmas is No Time to Talk About War and Peace

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Jim Rigby - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - When I heard the President speak to returning troops last week, my mind flashed back to an article I once wrote for our local newspaper. Each week a different member of the local clergy would write a column, and I had been asked to write the piece for Christmas. That year all I could hear was the drumbeat leading toward a war with Iraq. I racked my brain trying to think of a way to put faces on the people we were about to bomb.read more

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Jon Stewart Rips Congressional GOP's 'In God We Trust' Debate: 'You're Doing It To Be D*cks' (VIDEO)

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Nov. 04 (Comedy News) - Whenever you ask a congressperson, a Presidential candidate or just about any political pundit what the most important thing this country needs right now, it's jobs, jobs, jobs. Immigration and war reform, sure, but jobs are key.

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A Confraternity of the Fatherless

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thehumanist.org - By Rebecca Goldstein - Nov. 01 (Speech) - When I think about religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order for those who cannot believe: the Confraternity of the Fatherless one might call it, where on an altar, on which no taper burned, a priest, in whose heart peace had no dwelling, might celebrate with unblessed bread and a chalice empty of wine. And as I look around, I feel like we are a realization of poor Oscar Wilde’s wistful fantasy—this order of those who can’t believe, the Confraternity of the Fatherless. And I wonder about the ambiguity of this phrase, “can’t believe.” Is this inability to believe an incapacity or is it an endowment? Is it a sign of failure or is it a sign of strength?

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Taboo - or Not Taboo. Make That 15 Commandments.

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Smirking Chimp - By Robert Becker - Oct. 26 (Opinion) - It's good news that bad taboos, which reinforce prejudice, are falling by the wayside. But what about good taboos on which civilization depends, also falling by the wayside?

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When politicians distort science...and outright reject it.

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Robert Socolow - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - We must not underestimate the threat now looming. Another age of darkness could lie ahead. In what may someday be called the Science Wars, our opponents present science as dogma and construct a symmetric conflict: their dogma vs. our dogma.

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How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Frank Schaeffer - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - As the Occupy Wall street movement spreads across the country and the world, we must bring attention to the enablers of the top 1 percent exploiting the 99. Fundamentalist religion made this exploitation possible.

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The Republican war on science is un-American

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - In his new book, “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America,” (Bellevue Literary Press), Jonathan D. Moreno delivers an impassioned defense of scientific study. “The alternative to experimental confirmation is, in a word, dogma,” he writes. “Dogmatic statements may have many fine qualities. They may be beautiful, inspirational, and convey a kind of wisdom, or at least the impression of wisdom. But they can never be verifiable and self-correcting in the manner of science.”

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Mormons: One may serve as president soon » Evansville Courier & Press

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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How I Escaped the "Biblical Family Values" Nightmare That Drives Perry, Bachmann, and Tea Party Politics

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Vyckie Garrison - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - Do you remember when it first dawned on you that your relatives are all a bunch of crackpots and weirdos? Seems like I was around 8 or 9 — my mother worked all night in the casinos and slept most of the day, leaving me alone to protect my naïve older sister from the depraved advances of Mom's alcoholic boyfriends and worry about my big brother's drug addiction.

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