"A study says that Conservatives do not trust science anymore. It also says that 30% of Liberals do not either. Whatever “Conservatives” and...
Responsibility
We may never know the motivations of the man who shot Congresswoman Giffords, but here are some things we do know: 1. We know there are extremest...
The Kalama Sutta... Words of Wisdom
-Do not believe anything on mere hearsay. –Do not believe in traditions merely because they are old and have been handed down for many generations and in...
DADT repeal wins!
In a historic victory for the military, the Senate Dem leadership, the White House, and the civil rights of embattled gay and lesbian service-members -- and in a...
Should Atheists Slam Religion or Show Respect?
"A Midwestern atheist tells of sitting in her lunchroom at work and listening as conversation opened up around her about religious differences. Her...
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3 "Gov. Bill Haslam (R) of Tennessee declined to act on a measure yesterday that would formally allow teachers to challenge "the teaching of some scientific...
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4 I was just listening to C-SPAN and heard the Republican argument, "We must ask our government to do what American households must do... Live within their...
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5 George Monbiot Most of the countries that might abandon nuclear power are likely to replace it not with renewables but with fossil fuel, and that this is a major...
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6 You Should Have Listened to Farrakhan When You Were at His Table: New Black Panthers Turn on Obama in an N-Word, Uncle Tom Tirade (Content Warning)
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7 India’s great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi famously said that there is enough on Earth for everybody’s need, but not enough for everybody’s greed....
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8 I know, I know. Another "feedback" thread = Bitch & Moan session. But really, whatthehellisthisshit? The Current Community, at least online, posts...
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9 Perhaps we should hold hearings on the radicalization of Republicans instead. http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/10/radicalization.hearings/index.html?hpt=C2
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10 The Sons of Confederate Veterans has launched a campaign to recognize a Confederate General and KKK leader on a special Mississippi license plate. The NAACP and other...
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11 Excellent video on the false priorities of modern life...Nigel Marsh is the author of "Fat, Forty and Fired" and "Overworked and Underlaid."
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12 Really excellent and candid video on the state of politics in the US. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCPz2SzROFQ
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13 "The initiative will be officially launched next month at the start of "LGBT History Month" – an initiative to encourage teaching about lesbian,...
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14 "Since the creationist and intelligent design crowd (they’re the same crowd) want creationism taught in the public schools, it’s only fair that the...
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15 "A hacker group behind online attacks on companies that withdrew services to WikiLeaks busted through the defenses of a computer security firm working with...
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16 Video of Yves Engler on Reaganomics http://www.therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6227 On...
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17 by Jeremy Scahill If it weren't for Al Jazeera, much of the unfolding Egyptian revolution would never have been televised. Its Arabic and English language...
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18 Hansen, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the world's leading climate scientists... had hoped that politicians would respond to...
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19 John de Graaf http://www.utne.com/Politics/Thirty-Hour-Workweek-John-de-Graaf.aspx Pollsters find time stress a constant complaint among Americans. Until the...
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20 "Those who make secular revolution impossible will make extreme Islamist revolution inevitable." For decades beginning during the Cold War, US policy in...
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