BillO's 'Sincere Belief': Liberal Justices Want Employers To Pay For Your Abortions!

In the ongoing saga of Fox News Makes Viewers Stupid, Bill O'Reilly continued their tradition of denying science in order to trash the sensible justic... Read more

Maine's RWNJ Gov Conspired With 'Sovereign Citizens' Who Wanted Dems Hanged

What happens when a state elects an irrational, temper-driven ideologue as Governor who has no moral rudder? Why, he conspires with and takes advice f... Read more

Rick Santorum's Making A Hobby Lobby Movie That Sez The U.S. Is Becoming Nazi Germany

The production company run by former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said this week that it planned to release a movie about Monday's ... Read more

Obstacles to critical thinking in the United States - Youngstown Atheism | Examiner.com

"The thing to remember is that the dumbing down is the project, religion is just one of many tools used to further the cause. There is a parallel attack going on against public education and another one against real hard news which is being replaced by infotainment and outright propaganda (Fox News). It's no coincidence that the Fox audience is made up largely of fundies." - David Tingley

http://www.examiner.com/article/obstacles-to-critical-thinking-the-united-states

8 Other Laws That Could Be Ignored Now That Christians Get To Pick And Choose

...But these men are Christians. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Christian business owners are special. Their deeply held religious belief that some particular form of contraception is immoral carries more weight than the force of law, five conservative Christian justices ruled. The court -- in a fairly bald admission that its ruling is incoherent -- added that no general amnesty from other laws should be assumed to be the result of its ruling and that its reasoning was strictly limited to women's contraception. Such a limitation raises legitimate questions about the rather perverted and obsessive minds of the five men who made the ruling, but it also carries little legal weight. Precedent is precedent, whether the precedent-setters say so or not...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/religious-companies-opt-out-of-laws_n_5544582.html

GOP Candidate: Climate Science Is ‘The Greatest Deception In The History Of Mankind’

Lenar Whitney, who proclaims to be one of the most conservative members of Louisiana's state Legislature, released a 5-minute ... Read more

3 Lies About Birth Control That Were Just Reinforced By The Hobby Lobby Ruling

The justices validated some problematic arguments about contraception. The post 3 Lies About Birth Control That Were Just ... Read more

Private Contractor For Michigan Prisons Repeatedly Failed To Give Prisoners Enough Food

Less than a year after Michigan shifted responsibility for feeding its prisoners to a private contract with international food services conglomerate Aramark, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) is warning the company that it may yank the contract if chronic food shortages and security violations don’t cease.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/30/3454874/michigan-prisons-aramark-contract/

Rove Group Uses Flawed Study To Attack Udall On Carbon Plan

The $315,000 ad buy kicked off Monday in Denver, and opens up a new front in the drive by Republican House member Cory Gardner ... Read more

U.S. Senator Agrees With Supreme Court Decision Because Women Use Birth Control ‘Largely For Recreational Behavior’

In reality, the overwhelming majority of women report using contraception for economic and medical reasons.The post U.S. ... Read more

Corporations Win Again

Today's Supreme Court rulings from five conservative justices use judicial activism to benefit corporations and CEOs while ... Read more

Blackwater's Top Manager Threatened To Kill State Department Investigator

Color me not shocked that our mercenaries who we already knew were running amok in Iraq would resort to something like this. From The New York Times: ... Read more

Bush Campaign Advisor: Sending Troops Into Iraq Was A Huge Mistake The First Time

Matthew Dowd, the former chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney '04 presidential campaign, came out with some real honesty on ABC's This Week Sunday by ... Read more

Justice Ginsburg Writes Blistering Dissent On Hobby Lobby

Justice Ginsburg has some problems with the Hobby Lobby 5-4 decision. Some excerpts from her dissent via Mother Jones: * "Religious organizations e... Read more

Karl Rove Continues To Conflate Birth Control With Abortion

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Faux "news" contributor and former Bush chief of staff Karl Rove was shamelessly conflating the m... Read more

Miss. College GOP Chairman Gets Fed Up With Tea Party 'Extremists,' Switches To Democrat

The chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans (MFCR) said on Monday that he had resigned, and was in the process of switching his ... Read more

Obama On Immigration Today: 'Pass A Bill, Solve A Problem. Don't Just Say No'

This is as closed to pissed off as I've seen Obama get, and who can blame him? The Do Nothing Congress has done everything but tie him in a chair to p... Read more

Collins: If corporations got pregnant, contraceptives would be free | The Salt Lake Tribune

When given the opportunity, voters have made it very clear that they don’t like the idea of hurting childless couples’ chances for in-vitro fertilization out of concern for the constitutional rights of the eggs. A personhood amendment to the state constitution was rejected in a referendum in Mississippi. Also twice in Colorado.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/58128425-82/personhood-abortion-conception-contraceptives.html.csp

Religious freedom frauds

Leave aside for the moment the Green family mission to introduce its biblical curriculum into public schools, its past employee health insurance plan that covered the very same emergency contraceptives it now opposes and its retirement plan investments in companies manufacturing the birth control products in question. As Garrett Epps argued, if the long history of Supreme Court precedent through Chief Justice John Roberts' tenure means anything, Hobby Lobby should lose. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/29/1309930/-Religious-freedom-frauds

How One GOP-Controlled Committee Is Waging a War on Science

The GOP's ... Read more