DN Speak: 7/8/12

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Paring Back The U.S. Government | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Interview:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/07/03/paring-back-the-u-s-government

New Research On Carbs | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Interview:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/07/05/new-research-on-carbs

Is Christianity Good for American Politics?

Interview, debate, discussion:

On this page are multiple links -- one to the full debate between a secularist and a Christian apologist on the question "Is Christianity Good for American Politics?" -- and others for listening to the critique of the debate or downloading it (RD Extra).

The critique is well worth listening to because it provides a thorough analysis of the flaws and inaccuracies in the arguments made by the Christian apologist, and because it provides ample evidence from John Adams and Thomas Jefferson that the Founding Fathers did not establish the United States as a "Christian nation". In fact, it was churches that opposed the establishment of the Constitution because they argued it was not a Christian document and did not mention God. So how did we arrive at the point in recent generations where churches now claim the Constitution as a basis for their "Christian nation" claims?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/reasonabledoubts/2012/05/30/rd-extra-debunking-dsouza/

Friday News Roundup - International | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR

Interview:

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-07-06/friday-news-roundup-international

Friday News Roundup - Domestic | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR

Interview:

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-07-06/friday-news-roundup-domestic

Week In The News: Taxes, Romney And The NAACP, Minimum Wage In Scranton | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Interview:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/07/13/week-in-the-news-204

GOP Slams Change That Republicans Sought

GOP Slams Change That Republicans Sought
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/beVZT

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney and a slew of other leading Republicans on Friday slammed the Obama administration's decision to ... Read more

Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? - Forbes

Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? - Forbes
REDDIT TOP NEWS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/9CaBk

Read more... 1172 score | 326 comments > submitted by scrabblydab subreddit: politics ... Read more

When did we become a country where the millionaires are jealous of the people on food stamps? A country that thinks teachers and fire fighters are soaking us dry? A country that thinks the richest who are paying the lowest taxes in 80 years are the ones being beaten up?

When did we become a country where the millionaires are jealous of the people on food stamps? A country that thinks teachers and fire fighters are soaking us dry? A country that thinks the richest who are paying the lowest taxes in 80 years are the ones being beaten up?
REDDIT TOP NEWS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/becrR

Read more... 2310 score | 3816 comments > submitted by wang-banger subreddit: politics ... Read more

We have a War on Drugs yet no War on Financial Services Fraud, something is terribly wrong here

We have a War on Drugs yet no War on Financial Services Fraud, something is terribly wrong here
REDDIT TOP NEWS | JULY 13, 2012
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Read more... 983 score | 122 comments > submitted by one_of_reddit subreddit: politics ... Read more

13 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever.

13 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | JULY 13, 2012
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Read more... 1511 score | 478 comments > submitted by spaceghoti subreddit: politics ... Read more

12 Ways the House Could Have Improved Health Care

12 Ways the House Could Have Improved Health Care
THE ATLANTIC | JULY 12, 2012
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_Republicans have held more than thirty votes trying to repeal Obamacare. They should take up some of these causes instead._ Reuters It was Groundho... Read more

The GOP’s Effort To Pull Out Of Medicaid Is Part Of Its War On Women

The GOP's Effort To Pull Out Of Medicaid Is Part Of Its War On Women
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/bexGa

Medicaid expansion is just the latest battlefield in the Republicans' ongoing war against women. Republican governors ... Read more

Romney Demands Obama ‘Apologize’ For Bain Attacks, But Fails To Address Key Questions

Romney Demands Obama 'Apologize' For Bain Attacks, But Fails To Address Key Questions
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/beulI

Mitt Romney granted a round of television interviews Friday evening to respond to accusations that he stayed at Bain Capital ... Read more

150 Doctors Protest Hospital’s Decision To Stop Offering Abortions

150 Doctors Protest Hospital's Decision To Stop Offering Abortions
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/beVtL
150 doctors at Abington Memorial Hospital are resisting the hospital's decision to stop offering abortion services ... Read more

More Than 14,000 U.S. Troops Were Wounded In Afghanistan Since 2008

More Than 14,000 U.S. Troops Were Wounded In Afghanistan Since 2008
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/bdbc4

The Congressional Research Service released a report this week found that to date, 2,030 Americans have died in Afghanistan and ... Read more

Alabama Judge Rebukes Private Correctional Company For Running ‘Debtors Prison’

Alabama Judge Rebukes Private Correctional Company For Running 'Debtors Prison'
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 13, 2012
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In 2010, four residents of Harpersville, Alabama filed suit against several local officials and private prison company Judicial ... Read more

Most Americans Understand Climate Is Warming And Making Droughts Worse, 77% Say We Should Limit Carbon Pollution

Most Americans Understand Climate Is Warming And Making Droughts Worse, 77% Say We Should Limit Carbon Pollution
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/beAcw

Yet another poll finds Americans do understand the planet is warming and driving more extreme weather. The Washington ... Read more

Sarah Palin's 'Lie' Attacked

Sarah Palin's 'Lie' Attacked
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/bevK1

As the National Governors Association conference kicks off Friday, the nation's Democratic governors are attacking what ... Read more

State Hospitals: ‘It Only Makes Sense’ To Support Expanding Medicaid Under Obamacare

State Hospitals: 'It Only Makes Sense' To Support Expanding Medicaid Under Obamacare
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 13, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/beJyD

When the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's health care reform bill, it also altered an Obamacare provision that ... Read more

Friday, July 13, 2012

GOP Doubles Down On ‘Pants On Fire’ Claims About Clean Energy That Fact Checkers Call ‘Ridiculous’

GOP Doubles Down On 'Pants On Fire' Claims About Clean Energy That Fact Checkers Call 'Ridiculous'
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 12, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/bcdQX

Once again, the clean energy industry is collateral damage in an election year war of words. After being repeatedly called out ... Read more

Britain. Winning at things that matter...

Britain. Winning at things that matter...
REDDIT TOP NEWS | JULY 12, 2012
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Read more... 654 score | 61 comments > submitted by Mungo9OOO subreddit: atheism ... Read more

Mitt Romney sure picked a bad day to call the president a liar

Mitt Romney sure picked a bad day to call the president a liar
DAILY KOS | JULY 12, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/bcvB3

So here's Mitt Romney's new ad defending his record on outsourcing by saying President Obama "doesn't tell the truth" and ... Read more

Republicans create Obamacare repeal money pit, $50 million and counting

Republicans create Obamacare repeal money pit, $50 million and counting
DAILY KOS | JULY 12, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/bcdQY

With yesterday's vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (either the 31st, 32nd or 33rd, they've actually lost track) the ... Read more

Kansas attorney general forked out $675,000 to fight challenges to state's anti-abortion laws

Kansas attorney general forked out $675,000 to fight challenges to state's anti-abortion laws
DAILY KOS | JULY 12, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/bcxUl

They really know what matters in revenue-strapped Kansas. The attorney general's office there has paid $675,000 to outside ... Read more

Mental health disorders among troops increased 65 percent since 2000

Mental health disorders among troops increased 65 percent since 2000
TOP MSNBC.COM HEADLINES | JULY 12, 2012
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Mental health disorders in active-duty troops increased 65 percent since 2000, according to a report released this week by the Armed Forces Health Sur... Read more

Thursday, July 12, 2012

If Romney vetted himself, his tax returns would KO shot at White House | Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/11/if-romney-vetted-himself-his-tax-returns-would-ko-shot-at-white-house/

CHART: House GOP Holds 30 Times More Votes On Repealing Obamacare Than On Creating Jobs

CHART: House GOP Holds 30 Times More Votes On Repealing Obamacare Than On Creating Jobs
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 11, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/b9VNa

A chart from the Nation illustrates the stark disparity between the number of votes that House Republicans have held on ... Read more

The Tax Rate You Paid in 2009 Was Lowest in 30 Years - Tax cuts plus falling incomes behind drop, CBO says

http://www.newser.com/story/149881/the-tax-rate-you-paid-in-2009-was-lowest-in-30-years.html

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Paul Krugman's Advice to Recent Graduates

Chris Christie: "You can't be pro-life just in the womb."

Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating America?

Gay Marriage (and consequently, adoption)

So my pastor had me do an assignment on God after i missed a day of Conformation/ Confirmation. This is what I sent him.

So my pastor had me do an assignment on God after i missed a day of Conformation/ Confirmation. This is what I sent him.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | JULY 10, 2012

Handwritten letter -- http://pulse.me/s/b8epY

Typed letter and comments -- http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/wcq67/so_my_pastor_had_me_do_an_assignment_on_god_after/

Obama Defends Access To Contraception: It’s ‘Not Fair’ For Catholic Institutions To Deny Women Birth Control

Obama Defends Access To Contraception: It's 'Not Fair' For Catholic Institutions To Deny Women Birth Control
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 10, 2012
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Catholic leaders are fighting against a new Obamacare policy requiring insurers and businesses to offer contraception coverage ... Read more

Speaker Boehner Uses Many Lies To Claim Ending Upper Income Tax Breaks Hurts Small Businesses

Speaker Boehner Uses Many Lies To Claim Ending Upper Income Tax Breaks Hurts Small Businesses
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 10, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/b8eNm

Since President Obama called, once again, for the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for income above $250,000, Republicans have ... Read more

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Reason and creationism

Despite GOP Claims, Letting The Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich Expire Won’t Hurt Small Businesses

Despite GOP Claims, Letting The Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich Expire Won't Hurt Small Businesses
THINKPROGRESS | JULY 9, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/buyr4vp

President Obama today once again threw his support behind a plan that would extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class but ... Read more

Republicans: No health insurance for you

Republicans: No health insurance for you
DAILY KOS | JULY 9, 2012
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House GOP leaders: Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Rep. Eric Cantor and Rep. Cathy McMorris ... Read more

10 things the GOP doesn't want you to know about taxes

10 things the GOP doesn't want you to know about taxes
DAILY KOS | JULY 9, 2012
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With the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 once again set to expire at the end of this year, President Obama on Monday once again ... Read more

Elizabeth Warren on what Republicans are trying to repeal

Elizabeth Warren on what Republicans are trying to repeal
DAILY KOS | JULY 9, 2012
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Elizabeth Warren (Reuters) Here's Elizabeth Warren, in an guest column for the MetroWest Daily News. For seniors, health care ... Read more

Abuses At Legion Of Christ-Run High School, Immaculate Conception Academy In Rhode Island

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/legion-of-christ-abuse-high-school_n_1658904.html

Second troubled priest now back in Detroit - SNAP

http://www.snapnetwork.org/second_troubled_priest_now_back_in_detroit

Monday, July 9, 2012

Киборги из Северной Кореи -.о [Cyborgs from North Korea]

GOP Has Become 'Goofy' - Conservative Judge

State Funded Religious Schools Are Ok (If They're Not Islamic)

Anti-Tax Movement Burned By Wildfires In Colorado

Double-Amputee Duckworth Not A 'True' Military Hero - Rep. Joe Walsh

Is 'Obamacare' The Largest Tax Increase In The History Of The World'?

Fake Doctors Lie To Women About Abortion (Legally)

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Hitchens vs Turek Debate Does God Exist

Christopher Hitchens at Google

Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. He has also written for The Nation, Granta, Harper's, The Washington Post, and is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in England, Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He now lives in Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2007. This event took place on August 16, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.