In the aftermath of a tragic shooting Wednesday at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in which nine were killed, President Barack Obama spoke out about a recent scourge of gun violence in the US. "Once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no ...
It's "extraordinary" that it's being investigated as a hate crime, Steve Doocy said -- it's an attack on Christians On "Fox & Friends" Thursday morning, co-host Steve Doocy said it was "extraordinary" that Police Chief Gregory Mullen referred to the massacre of nine black churchgoers by a young w...
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal on Friday suggested that "institutionalized racism" was not a driving force in the massacre of nine peo... Read more
We live in an age where mass shootings are so common that there is now a template for politicians to plug in the victim's names, the date and location... Read more
Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of the conservative blog RedState, said on Thursday that America's acceptance of transgender people was creating an in... Read more
Republicans argue the federal government can't afford Obamacare. But a new congressional report says repealing the law would cost, not save, more than $100 billion in the next decade. Read more
Dr. Robert Price teaches philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. He has a PhD in Systematic Theology and a second PhD in the New Testament. A published author and recognized expert in the history of Christianity, biblical criticism, and theology, Dr. Price has also written books on the historicity of Jesus and the various Christ myth theories.
He has served as a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, the former editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism, a fellow of the Center For Inquiry's Committee on the Scientific examination of Religion and the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance.
He graciously agreed to sit down with us to discuss the historicity of Jesus and how or if this topic has relevance in debates and discussions with Christians. http://youtu.be/3NLXTGesqxA
The Koch Brothers are trying to tighten their grip on the Republican Party’s infrastructure, and the result is a power struggle between GOP leadership and their wealthy donors. http://youtu.be/PPjNLlPzObs
So we woke up to a horrible story: CHARLESTON, S.C. -- An intense manhunt was under way Thursday for a white gunman who opened fire on Wednesday nigh... Read more
Imagine, if you will, a movement that was spreading through a country, fueled by lies, hate and conspiracy theories, resulting in armed standoffs with... Read more
South Carolina presidential hopeful Sen. Lindsey Graham was a guest on ABC's The View this morning and discussed the horrific shooting massacre of 9 p... Read more
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal does his best to shill for the NRA while calling President Obama "completely shameful" for daring to bring up gun control ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite White House veto threats, the House is ready to vote to repeal taxes on medical devices and kill a Medicare advisory board t... Read more
The future of clean energy is an incredibly exciting one: we will do more while protecting the environment. Countless researchers, private institution... Read more
“They didn’t leave me anything,” said Sabri Manasra, who said he and a cousin had lost 800 trees. “This is damage no one will forget, not my children, or my children’s children. I don’t understand how people can do this.”Read more
Usually small though occasionally damaging earthquakes are a side-effect of industrial processes such as geothermal energy and oil-gas production that involve injecting water underground. But scientists have been unclear about the exact role of fluid injection in triggering these man-made earthquakes. Read more
The regular news, and then the unbearable news this week. Out of Charleston. Nine killed at prayer. All black. A young white shooter confessing. A crime, authorities say, of hate. And a sickened nation asks, “Where’s the progress? The path out of this?” Across the Atlantic, the Pope turns to look deeply at climate change and delivers a big, urgent encyclical. Says we must change to protect creation. We’ve got trade twists, Al Qaeda leaders killed, Hillary Clinton rallying, and Jeb Bush formally in the race for the presidency. This hour On Point: our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. / Tom Ashbrook
Interview: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/06/19/charleston-shooting-south-carolina-tpa-jeb-bush
The suspect in a mass murder of nine people in Charleston, South Carolina is expected in court Friday. In the tragedy’s wake, President Barack Obama renews his call for stricter federal gun laws. The House narrowly passes fast-track trade legislation but the bill still faces hurdles in the Senate. After months of speculation, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush formally enters the presidential race. He and other candidates react to the Pope’s encyclical on climate change. The Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged. And Rachel Dolezal’s resignation from the NAACP prompts questions about whether race can be a choice. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week’s top national news stories.
Interview: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-06-19/friday-news-roundup-domestic
In a new war of words, Russia accuses the U.S. of deploying military trainers in East Ukraine. The U.S. says Russia is violating a six-week-old cease-fire agreement there. U.S. officials confirm a CIA drone strike in Yemen killed al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader. The Pentagon considers allowing U.S. soldiers to fight alongside Iraqi forces targeting the Islamic state. The U.N. warns the world’s refugee crisis has reached unprecedented levels. A meeting of Eurozone finance officials ends with no deal on Greek debt. And Pope Francis calls for global action on climate change. Diane and a panel of journalists discuss the week’s top international stories.
Interview: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-06-19/friday-news-roundup-international
...While there are some legitimate debates to be had about what, exactly, the government can and can't do when it comes to protecting religion -- the Supreme Court has considered this issue in a number of cases -- the examples below suggest that many lawmakers are trying their hardest to chip away at the separation between church and state... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/16/separation-church-state_n_7594272.html
“Pope Francis' message...is harmful to many others in the Catholic Church: single-parent families, families where emotional and physical abuse occurs, families who are separated geographically because of political or economic situations, to name a few,” DeBernardo told HuffPost. “In focusing his attention on a standard of male-female child-rearing, Pope Francis ignores the real economic, political, cultural, and psychological forces which harm contemporary families around the globe.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/16/pope-francis-heterosexual-parents_n_7597040.html
...Against this resistance, the Army turned to force. In a largely forgotten or misunderstood occupation, the Army spread more than 40 outposts across Texas to teach rebels “the idea of law as an irresistible power to which all must bow.” Freedpeople, as Haywood’s quote reminds us, did not need the Army to teach them about freedom; they needed the Army to teach planters the futility of trying to sustain slavery... Read this piece and it will change your understanding of just how slavery really ended and why... http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/hidden-history-of-juneteenth
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday condemned the shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. as a "tragic r... Read more
And yet, he said nothing and did nothing. Why? Is it because bigotry in Charleston is accepted as commonplace and normal -- even commendable?
The roommate of the white, 21-year old man who allegedly massacred nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina said Thursday ... Read more
The world's most big-headed businessman is about to enter the 2016 election, and the GOP is in trouble Comedians and political writers everywhere are on the verge of enjoying a great big simultaneous orgasm. D-Day — Donald Day — is upon us and more than any other previous election cycle, it looks...
Michigan state Representative Gary Glenn says school officials should be held criminally liable for teaching students about homosexuality. http://youtu.be/RwDBmlVPGpc
David Barton says God does not approve of Christians who remain silent on homosexuality while Janet Porter says gay marriage was the cause of Noah's Flood. http://youtu.be/byYD19x1eFU
...Just 24% of Catholic Republicans believe that the Earth's warming is caused by human activity and that it is a "very serious problem," compared with more than six in 10 Catholic Democrats who hold these views, according to a new Pew Research Center poll out this week... http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/politics/pope-encyclical-climate-change-catholic-republicans/
Is Fox News on the brink of becoming (as Pinocchio might say) a "real news organization" instead of the wooden de facto propaganda wing of the Republi... Read more
Bill-O has met his match when it comes to loud mouthed bloviators. You know you're over the top when even Bill O'Reilly starts to sound mildly sane in... Read more
Donald Trump likes Charles Krauthammer about as much as anyone would like a snake bite. He's called the conservative columnist many things including b... Read more
Rushbo isn't happy about Pope Francis' latest encyclical concerning climate change, so he stomped his hooves and called the Pope the "M" Word. If onl... Read more
In a great move, the Senate just voted to make sure America doesn't torture people any longer. Torture includes acts like waterboarding and rectal fe... Read more
Golly, who could have guessed that Senate Republicans would dangle out the empty promise that they'd extend subsidies under the Affordable Care Act fo... Read more
