Birth Control Battle: Catholic Bishops Double Down After Philippine Loss

"...Culture warriors have never been particularly inspired by facts. But sadly for the world’s Catholic bishops, facts, not dogma, must inform government policy. The Filipino government should be applauded for recognizing this. Let’s hope their American counterparts remember the same lesson..."


The Reproductive Health Law was signed by President Benigno Aquino III in 2012, but it has ... Read more

Women From Koch-Funded Conservative Groups Lambaste Equal Pay Measure

Some women continue to dismiss the wage gap between women and men as a "myth" and reject the need for legislative or executive ... Read more

How Facebook’s Political Donations Could Make It The Next Mozilla

Facebook shareholders called out the social network for backing politicians whose positions on public policy issues such as ... Read more

The Brutally Dishonest Attacks On Showtime’s Landmark Series On Climate Change

Episode One of Showtime's "Years Of Living Dangerously" has made an impact before it even aired. Sadly, the New York Times has ... Read more

Republicans Unanimously Block Debate On Gender Pay Equity Bill

Senate Republicans voted unanimously on Wednesday to block debate from beginning on Democratic-led legislation aimed at narrowing the pay gap between ... Read more

Koch Brothers Received Millions In Obamacare Subsidies

Koch Industries received $1.4 million in subsidies from a $5 billion program established by the Affordable Care Act. The post ... Read more

Most Teens Don’t Receive Formal Sex Education Until After They’ve Already Started Having Sex

"This represents a missed opportunity to introduce medically accurate information on abstinence and effective contraceptive ... Read more

This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid

Charlene Dill collapsed and died from a heart condition. She couldn't afford health coverage to manage her chronic ... Read more

Senator Threatens To Block Nominee For Top Climate Post Because She Accepts Climate Science

During Janet McCabe's confirmation hearing, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) cited research from two Singaporean scientists and a ... Read more

RNC Chair Complains That The Supreme Court Hasn’t Done Enough To Let Rich Donors Give The GOP Money

In the world Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus seems to be support, a Republican billionaire could not just ... Read more

Mike Huckabee: Opposing LGBT Equality Is ‘On The Right Side Of The Bible’

Mike Huckabee continues to reject the religious beliefs of those Christians who support LGBT equality.The post Mike Huckabee: ... Read more

Paul Ryan’s Budget: More Aircraft Carriers, Fewer Jobs

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) complained that the U.S. has only 10 aircraft carriers, so he wants to spend more money to build another ... Read more

Why Our Prisons Are Making The Mental Health Crisis Worse

"There are now ten times more individuals with serious mental illness in prisons and jails than there are in mental institutions, according to a new report yesterday from the Treatment Advocacy Center. This is a jarring statistic, reinforcing the wisdom that prisons and jails have become de facto asylums, with as many mentally ill individuals in prisons as there were in asylums decades ago..."

Prisons are in many ways even less suited to treat the mentally ill than the asylums of a prior era, meaning mentally ill ... Read more

Senate Candidate Says Obama Hasn’t Been Impeached Because He’s Black

Sam Clovis, a Republican candidate for Senate, thinks the reason President Obama has not faced serious impeachment threats from ... Read more

5 Theocrats in Congress Who Care More About the Bible Than the Constitution

These politicians vote as they believe the Bible tells them to.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/5-most-theocratic-members-congress-0?paging=off&current_page=1

Why Physicists Are In A Film Promoting An Earth-Centered Universe (updated repost)

"It has the look and feel of a fast-paced and riveting science documentary.

The trailer opens with actress (who starred as Capt. Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager) intoning, "Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong." That's followed by heavyweight clips of physicists and ..." Read more

Per Wikipedia about the movie's producer, alleged to have deceived these people: Robert A. Sungenis (born 1955) is an American Catholic author of apologetic and polemical works critiquing the Protestant doctrines of sola fide and sola scriptura. He is also known for his advocacy of geocentrism and his controversial beliefs about Jews, Judaism, and Holocaust revisionism.

http://youtu.be/p8cBvMCucTg

Being on the Wrong Side of History: Michigan Republican confesses it was wrong to target gays to help George Bush win

"George W. Bush had to be re-elected, Republicans had to win. We needed an issue. This apparently was the issue...

Campaign strategists loved the demographics of the issue. Working class Catholics would turn out and they will vote for Bush....religious fundamentalist would be fired up...and on and on...

We singled out a whole group of people, most of whom just wanted to be left alone, to forcefully discriminate against them for short term political benefit..."

http://republicus.blogspot.com/2014/03/being-on-wrong-side-history.html

Interview: http://michiganradio.org/programs/stateside-cynthia-canty

Study: Fox News is misleading over 70% of the time when it comes to climate science.

"...Fox News was the least accurate; 72 percent of its 2013 climate science-related segments contained misleading statements. CNN was in the middle, with about a third of segments featuring misleading statements. MSNBC was the most accurate, with only eight percent of segments containing misleading statements..."
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Scientist managed to rejuvenate the organ in mice by manipulating DNA.

An elderly organ in a living animal has been regenerated into a youthful state for the first time, UK researchers say. Experts said the study was likely to have "broad implications" for regenerative medicine. A team at the University of Edinburgh managed to rejuvenate the organ in mice by manipulating DNA.
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Meadows and mountains of Yosemite National Park. [1247 x 794] by Carol M. Highsmith

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