Republican Presidential Hopefuls Are Justifying Discrimination By Erasing Gay People

Refusing service to a same-sex couple isn't discrimination because it's not an act against people.  ... Read more

Here’s How The U.S. Plans To Prevent Another Huge Offshore Oil Spill

The rules target blowout preventers and other pieces of drilling equipment that are key to well safety. ... Read more

In Landmark Case, Dutch Citizens Sue Their Government Over Failure To Act On Climate Change

For the first time ever, climate change is being taken to court over human rights. ... Read more

Congress Is Pushing A Bill To Significantly Weaken The EPA’s Climate Rule

Whitfield said the purpose of his bill is to prevent states from having to deal with the EPA's "damaging overreach." ... Read more

Climate Change Does Have Some Winners, Like Brain-Eating Parasites.

It's a myth there are no big winners from climate change besides fossil fuel companies.... Read more

These Rules Could Stop Financial Advisors From Siphoning Billions From Americans’ Retirement Every Year

A new rule would require all investment advisers who help people with retirement to act as fiduciaries and avoid conflicts of ... Read more

Why ‘Girls’ Star Jemima Kirke Talks About Her Abortion In A New PSA

"My life was just not conducive to raising a healthy, happy child. I just didn't feel it was fair. I decided to get an ... Read more

Catholic Bishops, Nuns Voice Support For Obama’s Iran Deal, Ask Congress To Back Off

"The alternative to an agreement leads toward armed conflict, an outcome of profound concern to the Church."  ... Read more

The Battle Rages On: Internet Providers Sue FCC In Hopes Of Killing Net Neutrality

Shots fired: Broadband industry groups launch first legitimate lawsuits to undo net neutrality.  ... Read more

Chris Christie Pitches Social Security Cuts That Would Help Wall Street Take Over Retirement System

Presumptive 2016 candidate Chris Christie (R-NJ) laid out a plan to cut Social Security benefits on Tuesday in New Hampshire, ... Read more

Beehive raises record-breaking $10 million

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Has Some Serious Trolls

Clip from the Tuesday, April 7th 2015 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday - friday 4-6pm Eastern.
http://youtu.be/oB9HBb-Uwhs

Undeniable by Bill Nye [Review]

http://youtu.be/TTVLDD4P_yE

RWW News: Mike Huckabee Says Obama Calling Michael Sam Is A Sign Of America's 'Utter Collapse'

Mike Huckabee says the fact that Obama called Michael Sam is a sign of America's "utter collapse" and says that boycotts against anti-gay businesses are "economic terrorism."
http://youtu.be/QTaVziLa5HU

Watch Obama School McCain And The GOP In Grown Up Foreign Policy (VIDEO)

President Obama took a moment out of a press conference at the Summit of the Americas last week to school the Republican Party ... Read more

5 Years Later, This Is How The Gulf Is Still Being Destroyed By The BP Oil Spill

New evidence shows that the chemicals used to help clean up the spill may have done more damage to the Gulf Coast's ecosystem ... Read more

Marco Rubio’s 2016 Rollout Is A Collossal Failure, Twitter Reacts Hilariously (TWEETS)

Marco Rubio is running for President. Twitter let him know what the nation thinks of him, and none of it was good. Read more

GOP’s IRS Cuts Ticking Off Taxpayers And May Cost Over $30 Billion Per Year (VIDEO)

We all love to hate the IRS, but the GOP's drastic IRS funding cuts could cost us billions. John Oliver explains. Read more
https://youtu.be/Nn_Zln_4pA8

55 State House Republicans BANNED From N.D. Coffee Shop For Panning Anti-Discrimination Bill

"Unless accompanied by a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transsexual, queer, intersex or asexual person." Read more

Bill O’Reilly Kicks Off Fox’s Hillary Bashing With Most Ridiculous Attack Imaginable (VIDEO)

O'Reilly's theory: Clinton has an unfair advantage because, it's really hard out there for a Christian white man.   Read more

New discovery may be breakthrough for hydrogen cars

...This method uses abundantly available corn stover - the stalks, cobs, and husks - to produce the hydrogen...
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[Image] Bill Gates a most humble person

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As vaccine bill advances, parents threaten to pull kids — and thus funding — from schools

Corte Madera resident Rhett Krawitt and his family have lobbied in support of state legislation to eliminate personal exemptions for vaccines. As a leukemia survivor, he cannot be immunized, so he relies on his classmates to get their shots...
http://www.marinij.com/government-and-politics/20150413/as-vaccine-bill-advances-parents-threaten-to-pull-kids-x2014-and-thus-funding-x2014-from-schools

What one of the anti-vaccination movement’s least favorite doctors discovered about Jesus

“That’s making religious freedom an idol,” Offit said. “How on earth in the name of Jesus can people watch children die?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/04/13/what-one-of-the-anti-vaccination-movements-least-favorite-doctors-discovered-about-jesus/

Walmart uses Georgia ‘conscience clause’ to refuse woman’s miscarriage treatment

“She looks at my name and she says ‘Oh, well, I couldn’t think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription,’” Cartrett said. “I tell her my reasons for needing it, and she says ‘Well, I don’t feel like there is a reason why you would need it, so we refused to fill it.’”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/walmart-uses-georgia-conscience-clause-to-refuse-womans-miscarriage-treatment/

5 faith facts about Marco Rubio: ‘Once a Catholic always a Catholic’

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who launched his presidential campaign Monday, often talks about faith and wrote about his religious convictions in his 2012 book, “An American Son: A Memoir.”
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/print/865626319/5-faith-facts-about-Marco-Rubio-6Once-a-Catholic-always-a-Catholic7.html

Religious restoration act is unnecessary

Religious-freedom restoration acts are bad laws enacted by desperate people to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2015/04/14/1-religious-restoration-act-is-unnecessary.html

Astounding Magician Andrew Kelly

What he can do with a deck of cards will blow your mind, just like it blew Ellen's!
http://youtu.be/7K6qtxJEdzQ

TIL Intuit spent $11.5M to lobby against the government providing free pre-populated tax filings

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Open Thread - Anti-Clinton Sexism Bingo!

Via @HillaryPresident (not an official handle, but not a satirical one either, I'm looking at you @VoteTedCruz), who points out "Women, when you hear ...  Read more

Action Alert: TPP Fast Track Bill To Be Introduced Today. Call Or Email!

"I was on a call with Sen. Bernie Sanders last night, and he said it was very important that you email or call your congressmembers and senators this w..."  Read more

Mika Brzezinski Force-Feeds Carly Fiorina A Heaping Dose Of Truth

This was one of those times when Mika did her job. (So did Steve Rattner.) And the deer-in-the-headlights look on Carly Fiorina's face is a joy to beh... Read more

What the 'Stop Hillary' campaign looks like, so far

As Hillary Clinton launches her 2016 presidential bid, the anti-Hillary movement is shifting into high gear. A top trend on Twitter: WhyImNotVotingF... Read more

GOPers Put Idaho At Risk Of Losing $46 Million Over Fear Of Creeping Sharia Law

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials face a looming deadline to maintain tens of millions of dollars in funding after a bill that would have brought th... Read more

The Surprising Countries Where It’s Easier To Get An Abortion Than The U.S.

"The United States is very much out of step with what's happening in the rest of the globe."  ... Read more

Rand Paul’s Favorite Philosophers Think Poor People Are ‘Parasites’

There is a clear intellectual line from Rand Paul's anti-government philosophy to thinkers who literally argued that the ... Read more

Rubio Has Already Alienated Latinos, The Tea Party, Big Business And The Religious Right

The senator has an uphill battle ahead of him to win over the groups he needs as he launches his presidential bid.  ... Read more

The ExxonMobil Explosion That Nobody Is Talking About

A chemical ash rained down on residents of Torrance, California, after an ExxonMobile refinery explosion in February. Why were ... Read more

Too Much Carbon Dioxide May Have Caused Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction

So much for carbon dioxide being a "harmless" gas.  ... Read more

Republican Wins Award For Believing In Climate Change

An incredible feat of "political courage." ... Read more

Nearly 90 percent of Americans have health coverage

Nearly nine out of 10 Americans now have health insurance, a sharp improvement from two years ago before Obamacare was put in place.
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IRS commissioner describes bleak picture for underfunded agency - The Washington Post

The budget cuts mean less money for audits and collection actions, resulting in “a loss for the government of at least $2 billion in revenue that otherwise would have been collected,” he said. “This is a classic example of being penny wise and pound foolish.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/irs-commissioner-describes-bleak-picture-for-underfunded-agency/2015/03/31/e374f77a-d7db-11e4-b3f2-607bd612aeac_story.html

100 Renowned Academics Speaking About God

The more scientifically literate, intellectually honest and objectively skeptical a person is, the more likely they are to disbelieve in anything supernatural, including god. This film is a compilation of some of the best examples of such individuals, and their thoughts on the divine. All the speakers featured are elite academics and professors at top institutions, some of whom are also Nobel Laureates.
http://youtu.be/De6j01DCsZM

Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren

Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution.
http://youtu.be/DTepA-WV_oE

Marco Rubio Is a Polished Performer, but He’s Out of Position

"Marco Rubio, who announced his bid for the presidency on Monday in a call to donors, has been called the “best communicator” in the Republican Party. Over and over and over again.

But he has little to show for it..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/upshot/marco-rubio-is-talented-but-out-of-position.html

Thomas Jefferson’s torturous afterlife: How Ronald Reagan and the Tea Party try to steal his legacy

The founder of the Democratic Party seems equally beloved by right and left. How did he become a Tea Partyer?
...The historical Jefferson hated fanaticism about as much as he hated religious leaders who arrogated to themselves a superior knowledge of God...
...Jefferson was a pretty lousy prophet, as things turned out. For one, he was convinced that Americans were too sensible to allow the religious battles of Old Europe to affect their national development–late in life, he predicted that within a generation or two, every American would die a Unitarian. It would seem difficult, if not impossible, to fit Jefferson (who was attacked as an atheist in his own time) into evangelical Protestantism; but that hasn’t stopped the self-taught “historian” David Barton, a collector and worshipper of all things founder-begot, who just a few years ago came up with a book titled “The Jefferson Lies,” so as to inform his wishful-thinking flock that Thomas Jefferson believed with all his heart in the efficacy of prayer and in a God who continues to take an active part in human affairs...
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/13/thomas_jeffersons_torturous_afterlife_how_ronald_reagan_and_the_tea_party_try_to_steal_his_legacy/

Greatest Anti-Religion speech? Christopher Hitchens

http://youtu.be/-pmArHBW9ns

Are you, too, joining the growing 'unaffiliated' religious group?

"I am unaffiliated with the church because it betrayed my trust."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-unaffiliated-religion-st-0412-20150410-column.html

Bill Maher terrifies Bill O’Reilly: An atheist has the Fox News host running scared

"What flabbergasts O’Reilly and Coulter is nonbelievers are no longer keeping mum about Christianity's rank stupidity..."
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/bill_maher_terrifies_bill_oreilly_an_atheist_has_the_fox_news_host_running_scared/

The dreaded plastic bag

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Morning near Worcester, South Africa [2048x1363][OC]

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Bill Kristol: If They Get To Nominate Hillary Clinton, Why Don't We Get To Nominate Dick Cheney?

Here's Bloody Bill Kristol with the false equivalency of the day when asked who is the most promising Republicans candidate not in the race yet by Thi...  Read more

Dana Bash Grills Rand Paul For Libertarian Hypocrisy: Freedom Ends 'When It Comes To Marriage'

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul tried in a recent interview to square his libertarian ideology with his desire to appeal to conservative v...  Read more
https://youtu.be/J7Mw8o6_YJs

Lindsey Graham Slams Republican Policies Slowing The Economy

I just love it when a Republican candidate who is currently serving in Congress explains why Republican policies fail. Lindsey Graham did it twice on ... Read more

Christianity a la Carte

As the conflict rages on about religious freedom versus the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans; it underscores the probl...  Read more

Universe's expansion may not be accelerating as much as thought, say scientists

Researchers from the University of Arizona have detected variation in a kind of supernovae used as a standard measure of distance, suggesting that the... Read more

Rand Paul Repeats Debunked Benghazi Lies To Attack Hillary Clinton

Here we go again. The media continues to allow Rand Paul to repeat lies that have long been debunked on Benghazi, unchallenged. David Gregory allowed...  Read more

Thousands March In Canada To Call For Action On Climate Change

The protesters called on Canada's provincial and federal governments to stop the expansion of the tar sands and to take climate ... Read more

‘Fuck Your Breath’ — Video Shows Cop Mocking Unarmed Man As He Dies From Police Bullet

Video shows Eric Harris, an unarmed black man, telling officers "I'm losing my breath" after he'd been shot. The officer ... Read more

PAT ROBERTSON F---S THE SHARK! FAITH WATCH!

*** Obscenity warning***
http://youtu.be/gtObrvErfko

Rand Paul launches attack website on Hillary Clinton

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Best of PZ Myers Arguments And Comebacks Part 1

http://youtu.be/Y1Q43OHVK10

NASA: DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space

NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life.
http://youtu.be/8KWf07WIv_A

Tim Maudlin On Rationality And Truth

http://youtu.be/biOecqecOsw

Julia Sweeney on Mormons

Julia Sweeney spoke at TED in February 2006 and talked about her religious experiences including an encounter with some Mormons. Her description of Mormon beliefs sums up what most people might know and also what they might think of them.
http://youtu.be/5NluntGu1Tg

Autistic 11 year old convicted of Felony Assault on a Police officer after kicking trash can.

Kayleb Moon-Robinson — who is diagnosed as autistic — had barely started sixth grade last fall in Lynchburg, Virginia, when a school resource officer filed charges against him. Kayleb was charged with disorderly conduct for kicking over a trash can and then with felony assault on a police officer because he struggled to break free when the cop grabbed him. The Center for Public Integrity analyzed national data and found that Virginia schools refer more students to law enforcement than other states, and that nationally schools refer black and special-needs kids to cops and courts disproportionately...   Read more

[Image] Someone made a fantastic guide to getting abs!

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Hannity Urges 'The Residence' Author To Paint Hillary As Unhinged

Sean Hannity is a die-hard "Conservative" who has a substantial aversion to females in positions of authority, especially a certain woman who will lik...  Read more

Top Characteristics of a Great Leader

There's no question that some people are just natural born leaders. Others may spend years strengthening their skills and helping others just to achie... Read more

Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies: interactive tool and poster

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com

Logical Fallacies: An Encyclopedia of Errors of Reasoning

The ability to identify logical fallacies in the arguments of others, and to avoid them in one’s own arguments, is both valuable and increasingly rare. Fallacious reasoning keeps us from knowing the truth, and the inability to think critically makes us vulnerable to manipulation by those skilled in the art of rhetoric.
http://www.logicalfallacies.info

Fox's Lisa Boothe Uses False Claim That Welfare Programs Don't Work To Justify Gutting Them

If it's Saturday, you don't have to look very hard to find the talking heads over on Faux "news" attacking welfare recipients. That's exactly what the...  Read more

New Report: Big Banks Require Tellers To Use Predatory Practices

Front-line workers at our nation's big banks — tellers, loan interviewers and customer service representatives — are required by their employers to ex...  Read more

10 things you may not know about Hillary Rodham Clinton

On Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton is to formally announce her candidacy for the presidency. Critics and competitors will be zeroing in on her politica... Read more

Montana House Republicans break ranks to pass Medicaid expansion (+video)

For many Republicans, the move to expand access to Medicaid amounts to an endorsement of Obamacare, but states like Montana that refused federal fundi... Read more

The $31 million week: big for Ted Cruz, but also for his super PAC donors (+video)

Mega-donors aren't just cutting big checks. Some of them want to take an active role in how their political investments are spent. What's not clear is... Read more

Ten deputies suspended after beating a suspect in California (+video)

The San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies were put on paid leave after a video showed them kicking and punching a man following a 2½-hour chase inv... Read more

NRA Convention Turns Into Anti-Hillary Rally

NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre warned of the "permanent darkness of deceit and despair" that would come if Clinton ... Read more

‘Killology’ Professor To NRA: Everyone Needs Guns Now To Fight ‘A Vicious Generation Of Children’

"Any politician who tells you we can solve this problem with gun laws is an idiot," Dave Grossman told the NRA audience. The ... Read more

Jeb Bush Struts Before The NRA Over 'Stand Your Ground' Law

One thing I'll grant the right wing. They're completely shameless about crowing over their major achievements which generally involve situations reaso... Read more
https://youtu.be/Wa6YdD-4iN0

Julia Sweeney: Letting go of God

Julia Sweeney (God Said, "Ha!") performs the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show Letting Go of God. When two young Mormon missionaries knock on her door one day, it touches off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs.
http://youtu.be/OtIyx687ytk

You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now? — Matter — Medium

There’s no helpline for pedophiles who want treatment before they act. So a teen with a terrible secret had to find his own way to save himself and others like him.
https://medium.com/matter/youre-16-youre-a-pedophile-you-dont-want-to-hurt-anyone-what-do-you-do-now-e11ce4b88bdb

Ben Carson Fearmongers Over Islamic Terrorists Crossing Our Southern Border

Potential GOP 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson jumped right in with the rest of the crew and the fearmongering at this year's National Rifle Ass...  Read more

Fox Guest Argues That African Americans Are Treated Better Than Whites By Police

On The O'Reilly Factor, host Eric Bolling and guest Horace Cooper didn't just deny that the killing of Walter Scott is part of a pattern of police sho...  Read more