Study Confirms World’s Coastal Cities Unsavable If We Don’t Slash Carbon Pollution

This latest research from the journal Nature underscores that what the nation and the world do in the next decade or two will determine whether or not cities like Miami, Boston, New York, or New Orleans have any plausible chance to survive by 2100...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/31/3765266/coastal-cites-carbon-pollution/

Donald Trump Says His Very Rich Muslim Friends Won't Be Banned From The Country | ThinkProgress

Pressed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews whether Trump’s friends could even get into the country with a ban on Muslims, Trump conceded. “They’ll come in,” he said. “They’ll come in, and you’ll have exceptions.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/03/31/3765216/trump-muslim-friends-immigration/

A Colorado School District Will Give Away Satanic and (Censored) Atheist Literature to Students

The School District has complained about two FFRF pamphlets: “An X-Rated Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible” and “What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?” 

Both of them are being limited to just the local high schools. The School District objects to the cartoon cover of “An X-Rated Book,” which shows a bible groping a young woman. 

“It is inappropriate in a school setting; we would not allow any of the high school students to wear or otherwise display such a cartoon,” says School District Attorney Andrew Clay. “Why would we allow them to carry it in the building? It may also qualify as hate literature, demeaning women.“

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/04/01/a-colorado-school-district-will-give-away-satanic-and-censored-atheist-literature-to-students/

The Police Force: America’s New Gangsters

America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, and RT’s Ed Schultz discuss the DOJ’s reinstitution of the civil asset forfeiture program, which allows police officer to seize cash and property related to a crime. Police can then keep those assets even if never convicted of a crime...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/Qv34jM0hLZw

Top U.S. & World Headlines — April 1, 2016

Interview:
https://youtu.be/8GAqRXNrpVk

Mississippi could now legalize discrimination against people who have premarital sex

...But as this bill is actually written, though, a whole lot of people in Mississippi besides sexual minorities could face discrimination, too — like the vast numbers of people who have had sex outside of marriage...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/mississippi-could-now-legalize-discrimination-against-people-who-have-premarital-sex/

5 Things To Know About President Obama's Budget

President Obama unveils his 2017 budget proposal today. It's an aspirational blueprint that details how he would set priorities if he controlled the government's checkbook ... which he doesn't. "This budget is not about looking back at the road we have traveled," Obama said. "It is about looking forward." But congressional Republicans are looking past the president. House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed the budget as "a progressive manual for growing the federal government at the expense of hardworking Americans." Here are five big things you need to know about Obama's eighth budget blueprint.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/466143593/five-things-to-know-about-president-obamas-budget?sc=tw

ACSJ Presents Professor Sheldon W. Helms: Gay Conversion Therapy

Sheldon will be speaking on the topic of Gay Conversion Therapy, providing us with a brief history of the efforts to alter people’s sexual orientation both through religion and therapy, some evidence of the potential risks these processes pose to victims, as well as an overview of the problem in the social, legal, and political domains. Sheldon Helms is a Professor of Experimental Psychology at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA where he serves as senior faculty member in the psychology department. He holds a master’s degree in psychology, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Alliant International University...
https://youtu.be/1llnklBbfuE

Fetal Tissue Research Uncovers New Information About Zika | ThinkProgress

New medical research has quickly advanced doctors’ understanding of how the Zika virus infects a fetus and how to detect its presence much earlier in a woman’s pregnancy. These findings — released Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine — would have been impossible to uncover without the help of one crucial, yet controversial, resource: tissue collected from an aborted fetus infected by Zika...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/31/3765233/fetal-tissue-zika-study/

Elizabeth Warren Accuses Banks Of Lying

On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accusing banks of lying about the pending rule requiring financial advisers to put clients’ interests ahead of their own, thus potentially violating securities laws...
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/31/3765249/warren-banks-fiduciary-standard/

Blustering Barton: Religious Right Pseudo-Historian Claims Tithing Will Make Your Car And Clothes Last Longer

It’s alarming that a guy with these views and who has been accused of stretching the truth time and time again remains allied with politicians and is so beloved by the Religious Right...
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/blustering-barton-religious-right-pseudo-historian-claims-tithing-will-make

Anti-Choicers Try to Exploit Donald Trump's Gaffe by Pretending Their Misogynist Views Are 'Moderate'

Anti-choicers are using Trump's comments to portray themselves as nicer to women, but in fact, they are worse...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/anti-choicers-try-exploit-donald-trumps-gaffe-pretending-their-misogynist-views-are

Bernie Sanders Has an Interesting Theory About Why the Republican Party Exists

"I think if we had a media in this country that was really prepared to look at what the Republicans actually stood for rather than quoting every absurd remark of Donald Trump, talking about Republican Party, talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks for the top two tenths of 1 percent, cuts to Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, a party which with few exceptions doesn't even acknowledge the reality of climate change, let alone do anything about it, a party which is not prepared to stand with women in the fight for pay equity, a party that is not prepared to do anything about a broken criminal justice system or a corrupt campaign finance system, I think, to be honest with you—and I just don't, you know, say this rhetorically, this is a fringe party. It is a fringe party. Maybe they get 5, 10 percent of the vote."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/bernie-sanders-interesting-theory-on-gops-existence

https://youtu.be/2vDAGRQ4__c

Trump's Abortion Comments: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump's controversial statement that there should be "some form of punishment" for women who seek abortions.
https://youtu.be/VpGJlZinFxk

Is This the Most Astonishing Obamacare Result Ever?

...the very instant that penalties begin for high readmission rates, everything stabilizes again. Apparently America's hospitals unanimously decided that once they'd hit a certain level, that was good enough and they wouldn't bother trying to improve even more...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/most-astonishing-obamacare-result-ever

Kansas Bill Would Pay Students A $2,500 Bounty To Hunt For Trans People In Bathrooms

The complementary bills (SB 513 and HB 2737) declare in no uncertain terms that transgender students are going to harm other students just by using the same facility alongside them. “Allowing students to use restrooms, locker rooms and showers that are reserved for students of a different sex will create potential embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury to students,” they read...
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/22/3762490/kansas-transgender-ransom-bathrooms/

If Addiction is a Disease, Why is It Criminal? Maia Szalavitz Envisions a Compassionate Drug Policy

http://democracynow.org - President Obama has unveiled a series of steps aimed at addressing the epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States. We speak with journalist Maia Szalavitz about her new book, "Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction," and about her own experience of overcoming addiction. "We need to create a more compassionate and loving drug policy," Szalavitz says. "Nobody is going to believe that addiction is a disease as long as the behavior is criminal." Szalavitz is one of the leading journalists covering addiction in the United States...
https://youtu.be/D11C8ciFQ9A

Michigan Is The Best Example of How Destructive Republican Government Can Be

If you want to know how horrible Republican leadership can be, just take a look at the state of Michigan. Not only have the Republicans helped create the water crisis in Flint, but they’re now allowing corporations to undermine the state Constitution and the will of the voters. This has become the standard for how Republican politicians operates...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/pHWBHSLNOF0

What's a 702(j) retirement plan? Should you get one?

A 702(j) plan is not actually a retirement plan at all; it's a life insurance contract. But the idea of using it to supplement retirement income isn't new.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2016/0227/What-s-a-702-j-retirement-plan-Should-you-get-one

Recycling sunlight: a solar cell revolution? - CSMonitor.com

Scientists have found a way to recycle sunlight and boost the amount of energy captured from the sun's rays.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0324/Recycling-sunlight-a-solar-cell-revolution

Donald Trump says Iran military will have nuclear weapons as soon as enrichment limits expire

Donald Trump: "When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/24/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-iran-military-will-have-nuclear/

Fueling Fascism: The Secret History of How Texaco Supplied Oil to Fascists in Spain

http://democracynow.org - While thousands of Americans fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, some chose to back Franco’s fascist regime. The most notable was the CEO of the American oil giant Texaco. He violated U.S. law by selling Franco’s regime discounted oil on credit. Also in violation of U.S. law, the oil was transported to Spain on U.S. ships. For more on this remarkable story, we’re joined by Adam Hochschild, the author of the sweeping new history book, "Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/ROe6oNRoJHY

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 31, 2016

Interview: https://youtu.be/MF0uk_58gF8

Spoiler Alert: Women Are Already Being Punished For Having Abortions | ThinkProgress

Multiple U.S. women -- with few options to get themselves to one of their state's dwindling legal clinics -- have been arrested for illegal abortions after they bought abortion-inducing medication online. And thanks to the growing number of laws aimed at protecting “fetal rights,” other women have been punished for doing activities that allegedly harmed their pregnancies. Americans have been charged with murder for allegedly seeking to harm their fetuses by attempting suicide, using illicit drugs, or even falling down the stairs...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/30/3765073/women-punished-abortion/

Why didn't Flint treat its water? An answer, at last

...But testimony at a legislative hearing this week from the city's utilities chief may help explain: When Flint began to pump drinking water from the Flint River, the city's water treatment plant wasn't capable of adding corrosion control treatment, not without equipment upgrades the broke city couldn't afford...
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2016/03/30/flint-water-crisis/82421546/

FDA Updates Label For Abortion Drug, Making Access Easier In Some States

"The updated label is more aligned with evidence-based medicine and has the potential to expand abortion access for Ohio women," Chrisse France, executive director of the Preterm clinic in Ohio, said in a statement. "We are pleased to announce that as of today we will be offering medication abortion to more women, with fewer required visits."... 
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/30/472413911/fda-updates-label-for-abortion-drug-making-access-easier-in-some-states

Zika Is Headed For States With Harsh Abortion Restrictions. What Happens When It Gets There?

Zika’s Spread Across The U.S. May Change The Narrative Around Abortion.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/30/3764270/zika-comes-to-anti-abortion-states/

Transparent Trickery: Claims Of ‘Persecution’ In Idaho Fail To Sway Court

ADF’s stunt was extremely transparent. It had two goals: One, exempt the Hitching Post from having to perform same-sex marriages and two, try to create a case in which a Christian ministry was being persecuted for its beliefs.
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/transparent-trickery-claims-of-persecution-in-idaho-fail-to-sway-court

Cartoon Donald Trump Tells Stephen Who Started It

In the wake of accusations against his top advisor, Donald Trump has devolved into a cartoonish version of himself. So Stephen invited a slightly less cartoonish version of Trump to appear on the show: Cartoon Donald Trump.
 https://youtu.be/96Ivji-ph4A

Elizabeth Warren Goes Off On 'Loser' Trump

Elizabeth Warren talks Bernie, Hillary and her most favorite presidential candidate of all, Donald Trump.
https://youtu.be/O7rWXURt6PI

NYPD Commissioner Slams Trump's Terrorist Fears: We Face a 'Bigger Threat' From Our Own Armed Citizens

Bill Bratton knows Americans with guns are a greater threat to our safety than international terrorism.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/nypd-commissioner-slams-trumps-terrorist-fears-we-face-bigger-threat-our-own-armed

As Sanders Scored Primary Victories, Cable News Broadcasted a Prison Reality Show and Jesus Documentary

Cable news ignored primaries for three important states.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/sanders-scored-primary-victories-cable-news-broadcasted-prison-reality-show-and-jesus

Donald Trump: "There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."

Trump miscasts impact on trade of Chinese taxes.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/30/donald-trump/trump-miscasts-impact-trade-chinese-taxes/

Hillary Clinton: When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

Evidence backs Hillary Clinton claim that torture is counterproductive for counterterrorism.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/30/hillary-clinton/evidence-backs-hillary-clinton-claim-torture-count/

What Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Have in Common

Both are pushing tax plans that would demolish the federal government...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/trump-cruz-campaign-tax-policy

Protest Plan Calls for Huge Crowd to Smoke Marijuana Outside White House to Push Obama to Do Something While He Still Can

Inspired by a warning from comedian Bill Maher that progress on marijuana reform could be rolled back after President Obama leaves office, pot advocates in the nation's capital have announced a bold protest next month to press Obama to move on marijuana while he still can....
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/bill-maher-inspired-protest-smoke-out-white-house

Fact-Check: Donald Trump Can't Release His Taxes While Being Audited?

Like other presidential candidates before him, Donald Trump is under pressure to release his tax returns. Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (who faced tax disclosure issues of his own) even suggested this week that Trump was refusing to do so because they contain a "bombshell." At Thursday's Republican debate in Houston, Trump explained that he cannot release his returns because he is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service...
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/26/468278769/fact-check-donald-trump-cant-release-his-taxes-while-being-audited?sc=tw

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 30, 2016

https://youtu.be/AfZB9lq_4NI

Pope Francis Calls for Ending Tax-Exempt Status of Churches That Don’t Help the Needy

“Some religious orders say ‘No, now that the convent is empty we are going to make a hotel and we can have guests, and support ourselves that way, or make money.’ Well, if that is what you want to do, then pay taxes! A religious school is tax-exempt because it is religious, but if it is functioning as a hotel, then it should pay taxes just like its neighbor. Otherwise it is not fair business.”
http://usuncut.com/world/pope-francis-calls-for-ending-tax-exempt-status-of-churches-that-dont-help-the-needy/

Ted Cruz Just Gave an Unbelievably Hypocritical Answer to a Question About Church/State Separation

Earlier tonight, during a Town Hall with CNN, student Thomas Dougherty asked Ted Cruz about his stance on church/state separation (13:00 mark)...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/29/ted-cruz-just-gave-an-unbelievably-hypocritical-answer-to-a-question-about-churchstate-separation/

Obama’s Popularity Is Spiking—Further Destroying the GOP’s Chances of Saving Its Sinking Ship

Republicans argue that Barack Obama is a uniquely disastrous president, but his approval rating is on the rise...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/obamas-popularity-spiking-further-destroying-gops-chances-saving-its-sinking-ship

Rockefeller Family Fund to Divest From ExxonMobil, Says Oil Giant Is 'Morally Reprehensible'

"There is no sane rationale for companies to continue to explore for new sources of hydrocarbons."
http://www.alternet.org/environment/rockefeller-family-fund-divest-exxonmobil-says-oil-giant-morally-reprehensible

Researchers Discover a Crazy-Simple Way for Kids to Fight Obesity, and It's Not About Eating Less

A new study shows that making water fountains more available in schools can help children keep the pounds off...
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/researchers-discover-crazy-simple-way-kids-fight-obesity-and-its-not-about-eating

6 Ways to Reform Our Corrupt Financial System

We must tame the growth of wealth among the top 1 percent and establish rules and institutions that ensure security and opportunity for the middle class...
http://www.alternet.org/books/6-ways-reform-our-corrupt-financial-system

Before You Judge Lazy Workers, Consider They Might Serve A Purpose

In the short term, lazy ants are inefficient, but in the long term, they are not...
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/468138647/before-you-judge-lazy-workers-consider-they-might-serve-a-purpose

Millions Of Americans Are Living In Areas That Are At Risk From Human-Caused Earthquakes

Six states are particularly at risk from human-caused earthquakes, according to the USGS...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/28/3763910/usgs-maps-earthquake-risk-fracking/

Brazil Confiscates Abortion Pills From Pregnant Women Exposed To Zika

“I contacted Zika four days ago. I just found out I’m about six weeks pregnant. I have a son I love dearly. I love children. But I don’t believe it is a wise decision to keep a baby who will suffer. I need an abortion. I don’t know who to turn to. Please help me ASAP.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/28/3763898/brazil-abortion-pill-confiscated-zika/

‘Christian’ Ted Cruz Celebrates Resurrection of Christ by Calling for Killing of Innocent Civilians

On Easter Sunday, Cruz was doubling down on his desire to “carpet-bomb” the Middle East...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/christian-ted-cruz-celebrates-resurrection-christ-calling-killing-innocent-civilians

Atheist Calls for Unity and Decency in Secular Invocation at Jacksonville (FL) City Council Meeting

On Tuesday in Jacksonville, Florida, First Coast Freethought Society founder Earl Coggins delivered the city council’s first-ever secular invocation...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/25/atheist-calls-for-unity-and-decency-in-secular-invocation-at-jacksonville-fl-city-council-meeting/

Why pediatricians care so much about the Supreme Court’s birth control case - The Washington Post

For the second time in two years, the Supreme Court justices tangled over a question about personal beliefs and birth control: Must employers who are religiously opposed to it cover it in their health plans? A prominent group of pediatricians hopes the answer will be yes...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/24/why-pediatricians-care-so-much-about-the-supreme-courts-birth-control-case/

Uranium Mining Is Coming To The Grand Canyon, If Koch-Backed Group Gets Its Way

A dark money group backed by Charles and David Koch is behind a well-funded effort to undermine protections at the Grand Canyon and overturn the Antiquities Act, the law President Teddy Roosevelt used to permanently protect the area in 1908. If successful, the campaign could stop a permanent ban on uranium mining near the canyon’s rim, despite support for such a ban by a vast majority of Arizonans....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/02/3755751/kochs-uranium-mine-grand-canyon/

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 29, 2016

https://youtu.be/ry582YHknLU

This One Chart Shows How Crazy Trump’s Climate Positions Are

Now that the results from Super Tuesday are in, we can officially pivot to considering Donald Trump as the most likely Republican presidential nominee. November will see a Trump v. Clinton or a Trump v. Sanders face-off, barring a few, impressively over-analyzed scenarios. With that in mind, ThinkProgress wanted to revisit our climate and energy candidate chart, where we help voters understand where candidates stand.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/02/3755772/trump-v-clinton-v-sanders-on-climate/

And Now the Good News #182: 3/29/2016

Learn more about the stories featured in this video at the following sources:
 “Sleep Tight, Fruit Fly – New Gene Identified” http://goo.gl/Etmbb4
 “New Catalyst is Three Times Better at Splitting Water” https://goo.gl/KDvsLT
 “New Findings in Humans Provide Encouraging Foundation for Upcoming AIDS Vaccine Clinical Trial” https://goo.gl/o88wjc
Interview:
https://youtu.be/gJGKFh9X2wM

Bernie Sanders Wins Landslides in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii; Corporate Media Downplays Them

http://democracynow.org - On Saturday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won landslide victories in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, chipping away at front-runner Hillary Clinton’s lead in the race to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for the White House. Sanders won at least 71 percent of the vote in each state, including 82 percent in Alaska. "The reason we are doing well is because we are talking about the real issues facing America and we’re telling the truth," said Sanders in a victory speech in Wisconsin. While Saturday may have been the biggest day of the Sanders campaign, the corporate media largely downplayed his victories. We air part of his victory speech. Interview:
https://youtu.be/v5Cu7auYI_U

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 28, 2016

https://youtu.be/h43nja8Ewpw

Denied contraception, Catholic mother of disabled child questions church teachings — at her peril

Sonia Guizar used to attend mass regularly and teach at a Catholic school. But her Catholic employer’s refusal to cover birth control brought her an ill-timed pregnancy and a child with developmental challenges that stretch her family thin. When she publically shared her experience and questioned Church teachings in a Washington Post story, what she got from fellow Catholics was a heap of abuse from people whose urge to defend religious dogma and authority trumped their kindness and compassion...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/denied-contraception-catholic-mother-of-disabled-child-questions-church-teachings-at-her-peril/

Apple designing its own iCloud servers to avoid surveillance

The NSA is known to intercept tech in-transit through the postal system...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-designing-its-own-icloud-servers-to-avoid-surveillance/

7 Times Muslims Denounced Terror

Although the urge to place blame for these crimes is a natural one, it’s essential to remember that Muslims as a group — made up of 1.6 billion diverse people all over the world— aren’t the right target...
http://www.bustle.com/articles/149432-7-times-muslims-denounced-terror

Bizarre cavefish can walk like a four-legged land-dwelling creature

The discovery of the bizarre cavefish in Thailand could help scientists better understand the evolution of land-walking animals...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0325/Bizarre-cavefish-can-walk-like-a-four-legged-land-dwelling-creature

Mohamed El-Erian On The Next Crash (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Mohamed El-Erian has overseen the investment of billions, trillons of dollars. Now he’s looking out on the global economy and sees trouble. Since the crash of ’08, central banks like the Fed have propped things up. Political leaders have failed to lead on underlying problems. And soon, says El-Erian, things are going to have to be really fixed or fall apart. Infrastructure, inequality, education. Fix them or watch out, he says. This hour On Point: Mohamed El-Erain on the road ahead right now. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/16/economic-market-crash-prediction

Matt Bors on the Media's Cynical Mourning of Justice Scalia

On speaking ill of the dead, and the next Supreme Court Justice....
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/alternet-comics-matt-bors-medias-cynical-mourning-justice-scalia

Censorship in the Islamic World, Through the Eyes of Journalist Jessica Davey-Quantick (Josh Zepps, Point of Inquiry)

We know more and more about how repressive attitudes about blasphemy and religious criticism in parts of the Islamic world can become explosive, as with the Charlie Hebdo attacks or the murder of secularist bloggers in Bangladesh. But these extreme instances don’t tell the whole story.

This week our guest is Jessica Davey-Quantick, who spent several years in Qatar as a reporter and editor for Qatar Happening and Time Out Doha. She experienced first hand the often laughable degrees of arbitrary censorship and cultural oppression, and simultaneously the liberty with which certain members of society could behave as they pleased. She discovered a world that both reinforced and contradicted commonly held beliefs about the restrictiveness of the culture of Islam in the Gulf States, and wrote about her experiences in a recent article at Vox.

She and host Josh Zepps discuss the problems with how we discuss cultures outside our own, the ways religion is intertwined with repressive norms, and how we might hold a mirror up to our own practices.
Interview:
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/censorship_in_the_islamic_world_through_the_eyes_of_journalist_jessica_dave/

Will Trump Upend The G.O.P.? (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Within a few days now, it is possible Donald Trump will be all but unstoppable in his push for the Republican nomination for the presidency. And no small number of Republicans are freaking out. hey say he is not conservative, realistic, sober-minded or well-mannered enough to be president. That he could destroy the Republican Party. Trump’s backers say bring on the change. The mainline G.O.P. is in something like panic. This hour On Point, Republicans on the verge with Donald Trump. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/29/donald-trump-gop-republican-party-divide

Water Works & Indiana Death Threats (Freedom From Religion Foundation, Forethought Radio)

FFRF staff attorney Sam Grover updates us on our amended complaint adding more plaintiffs to our lawsuit (filed along with the ACLU) challenging the live nativity scene performed by Concord High School in Elkhart, Indiana, and the accompanying harassment and death threats. Then Abigail Cantor, an award-winning national water management expert (as well as musician) tells us about the science behind what needs to be done in Flint, Michigan (and other cities) to improve water quality.
Interview:
https://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/25767-freethought-radio-february-13-2016

Bart Ehrman & Jesus, Interrupted - Commonwealth Club

On Monday, March 21, 2011 Bart Ehrman gave a lecture at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club of California, underwritten by The Bernard Osher Foundation. Moderator was Alan Jones, Dean Emeritus, Grace Cathedral. The appearance was largely related to Bart Ehrman's printed release of "Jesus, Interrupted." Bart Ehrman takes you on a journey to the ancient world and the forgery battles that have raged through the centuries. Ehrman contends in the lecture that the New Testament is riddled with contradictions about the life of Jesus and his significance. He provides compelling evidence that early Christianity was a collection of competing schools of thought and that the central doctrines we know today were the inventions of theologians living several centuries after Christ.

Video discussed on Bart Ehrman's Foundation Blog: http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=5149

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/BvKxJc-huEA

How an Evangelical Christian Preacher Became an Atheist

--John Loftus, former Christian apologist who defected and now is an atheist counter-apologist, with a number of books that argue against the Christian faith, joins David to discuss his story. Interview: 
https://youtu.be/LufIJ-bIhoo

Freedom From Religion: Rethinking Article 18 (Freedom From Religion Foundation, Forethought Radio)

FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel tells us about our exciting new federal court victory stopping school-board prayer in California. We announce FFRF’s newest lawsuit challenging Texas Governor Gregg Abbot’s censorship of our “Bill of Rights” nativity display. After hearing Lena Horne sing the irreverent Yip Harburg song, “Ain’t It The Truth?”, we talk with Australian author Meg Wallace about hew new book, Freedom From Religion: Rethinking Article 18, suggesting how the U.N. “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” can be improved to strengthen secular government.
Interview:
http://ffrf.org/news/radio/shows/#sthash.JCcZLdzv.dpuf
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/4/3/e/43e2e376f90e8104/FTradio_513_022716.mp3?c_id=11020920&expiration=1456761679&hwt=2f7e634745209a84cb36b386aeee7b16

Lawrence Krauss Explains Gravity Waves (Penn Jillette, Penn's Sunday School)

*** Explicit Language ***
Family, the death of Antonin Scalia, and Lawrence Krauss tells us about gravity waves. (Krauss's talk begins at 1:04:00.)
Interview:
http://www.podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?programID=336&pid=100600732

#226 Debate - Massimo Pigliucci vs William Lane Craig - Does The Christian God Exist - 2001

Interview:
https://youtu.be/N5sCQIt-ARA