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Late-Term Abortion Can Never Justify Murder
Frankly, I am disturbed by late-term abortions. As I wrote several years ago (previous article "The Question of Sentience"), I think it's entirely arbitrary that we draw the moral ...
California Throws H8 Back to Voters
In 1780 in the Massachusetts constitution, John Adams said we are "a government of laws, not men." This is what the California Supreme court effectively restated today when it went ...
Astronauts Begin To Drink Recycled Water
According to NASA, the astronauts on the International Space Station are now beginning to drink water purified from their own urine, sweat, and exhalations. While it's been possible for ...
Limbaugh Can Dish It Out…
The right is in a holy froth because President Obama laughed at a joke by Wanda Sykes saying she hoped Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail. Drudge immediately picked up the ...
Swine-Flu Scare Brings Out Homeopathy Kooks
I get email:
Re: ... the overhyped swine flu scare...
Hi Mark,
Regardless of media hype, let me give you an inside look. The cases in ...
Dawkins on Minnesota Public Radio
MPR: Dawkins seeks more converts to atheism.
Overall, a good interview. The host comes across as somewhat hostile at first. But she's just throwing the typical objections at him, which ...
Beheading is Not “Domestic Violence”
From the "elephant in the room" department comes this little item: As I'm sure you've all heard by now, a Muslim TV executive who had started a network to "counter ...
The Atheist Bus Sides
Religion has never needed much prodding to demonstrate its hypocrisy. It's almost a weekly perp-walk of the clergy across the world stage with their sexual indiscretions. Then there's the lying ...
New-Age ‘Spiritual Living’ Confusion
Wow, I shouldn't be surprised any more, but I always am. It seems the new-agers take the same apologetics used by religion, then add on top their notions of universal ...
Conspiracies and Climate Change
I received an email taking me to task for comparing the 9/11 truthers with climate change deniers. The correspondent claimed that while climate science was solid, the 9/11 truthers might ...
Rape, then Martyrdom: Gifts of Islam
Iraqi woman had 80 women raped then recruited as suicide bombers
A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she ...
Elizabeth Clare Prophet Publishes Memoirs
On the heels of the release of Prophet's Daughter, two of Elizabeth Clare Prophet's children have published the memoirs of their Alzheimer's-stricken mother. Erin Prophet announced the publication today in ...
CUT Sells Grazing Rights to Raise Cash
The AP is running a story about bison migration near Yellowstone Park. Bison have routinely left the park each winter in search of forage. Because many of them are ...
Harvard Crimson Prints “Atheism is Faith” Canard
The Church of Atheism By DHRUV K. SINGHAL Its standard-bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance ...
Dalai Lama Slams Sex in Post-Hoc Rationalization
Sex invariably spells trouble, says Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while ...
Prophets Discuss CUT’s Failed War Prophecy
Following is a story that ran in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle print edition last Sunday, but did not make it online. Jessica pretty much nailed it, and quoted all ...
CUT Leaders Deny 1990 Nuclear War Prediction
More revisionist propaganda from CUT leaders in a new AP article: In March 1990, thousands of church members who had descended on the Yellowstone area entered the shelters to ...
Church Shooting May Be ‘Honor Killing’
Church Shooting May Be 'Honor Killing' ...
They Can Dish It Out, But They Can’t Take It
Controversial 'Imagine No Religion' billboard removed in Rancho Cucamonga A billboard with the message "Imagine No Religion" is no more. Sign company General Outdoor removed the sign by ...
Prop. 8 Protest - A Beautiful Sight
I love the energy at this anti-Prop. 8 protest in San Diego. This bad law is SO getting tossed. You can't write discrimination into the state constitution without a supermajority ...
The Futurist Predictions
Top ten forecasts from The Futurist magazine, worth a read: 1. Everything you say and do will be recorded by 2030. By the late 2010s, ubiquitous, ...
Bias on bias
One-two punch for an election-eve finish. A veteran journalist has decided it's time for him to weigh in on media bias. It seemed the 2008 election had become enough of ...
Putting the Perps in Charge of ‘Healing’
What other institution could get away with this? OAKLAND, California (CNN) -- Terrie Light stands outside Oakland's stunning new modern cathedral in a first-of-its-kind garden that honors victims ...
Abstinence Marriage Challenge Draws No Takers
A "challenge" promising $10,000 for a wedding to couples who agree to abstain from sex and undergo religious counseling is going down in flames. No one has stepped up ...
Mormons Blackmail Student Over Diploma
Apparently, diplomas are conditional and can now be revoked at will. If there was ever a better argument for secularizing all colleges, I haven't heard it. This action also ...