Rate Of Climate Change To Soar By 2020s, With Arctic Warming 1°F Per Decade

A new study projects the rate of climate change, which has risen sharply in recent decades, will soar by the 2020s. This is ... Read more

25 Years Later, This ‘Simpsons’ Episode Still Hits Too Close To Home

A 1990 episode of 'The Simpsons' sums up today's political world all too well... Read more

Did Jesus Exist? Richard Carrier vs Mark Goodacre - Unbelievable?

http://youtu.be/0EulhS8EkJk

Darwin Day 2015 Questions: #2 Is Evolution a Fact?

Richard Dawkins answers your questions about evolution in honor of Darwin Day 2015.

"...it isn’t a theory that the earth moves around the sun it’s a fact we can observe, evolution is not”
http://youtu.be/4Wp3Awd3MIk

GOP Lawmaker Warns Women Will Die If Texas Keeps Defunding Planned Parenthood

Rep. Sarah Davis is pushing back on the rest of her party ... Read more

Obamacare's second round attracts more Americans

Nearly 11.7 million people have signed up for health insurance for 2015 through the Obamacare exchanges, federal officials said Tuesday. Some 8.8 million picked plans on the federal exchange, which is handling enrollment for 37 states, while the remaining 2.8 million went through their state-based exchange...
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Iran leader says GOP senators' letter implies U.S. 'not trustworthy'

“It's somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran," Obama said. “It's an unusual coalition."
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iran-us-nuclear-talks-20150310-story.html

Why Some Think 47 GOP Senators Broke the Law With Iran Letter (ABC News)

“Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/47-gop-senators-broke-law-iran-letter/story?id=29528727

Iran Foreign Minister Gives GOP Senators A Dose Of Reality Medicine

Whatever our response as a country is to Senate Republicans' shameless attempt to undermine the President's negotiations with Iran, I think we can all...  Read more

5 Unhinged Right-Wing Moments This Week: Ben Carson Wins the Stupid Prize

Megyn Kelly completely misses the point—again—on Ferguson.
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Now They're Saying It in Public: Professor At Koch-Funded University Department Calls For 'Less Democracy'

Garett Jones of George Mason University claims that less democracy would lead to better governance.
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VIDEO: Meet the Cynical PR Hacks Obscuring the Truth on Climate Change

New documentary 'Merchants of Doubt' exposes the spin doctors who insist global warming is a hoax.
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Michigan Mayor Who Compared Atheists to Nazis, KKK Now Handing Out ‘In God We Trust’ Posters

Mayor Jim Fouts clearly never learned the phrase "separation of church and state."
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6 Things to Do If You Work for a Jerk

Abusive bosses are a workplace reality. You can't escape them, but there are some strategies for managing them.
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Robert Reich: How Big Corporations Are Systematically Screwing Us Over

The U.S. economy is picking up steam but most Americans aren’t feeling it.
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The Republicans Are Ruthless and Relentless in Their Drive to Push Down Wages

Right-to-work-for-less laws ensure the cheap labor conservatives have sought for generations.
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How to Become a Conservative in Four Embarrassing Steps

Not that we'd want to. But many Americans, perplexingly, have taken that path in the last ten years.
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Colin Powell Still Sees ‘The Dark Vein Of Racism’ In The GOP

"I still see it [racism]. I still see in the Republican Party, and I still see it in other parts of our country." Read more

GOP Senator Posts Online Suggesting Obama’s Family Are Members Of ISIS (IMAGE)

This is what happens when the GOP start getting influenced by their own media hate machine. Read more

Dan Savage has the perfect response to Ben Carson's claim that being gay is a choice

"...So if religious conservatives are arguing that if something is a choice, like being gay — which they would like to argue is a choice and it is not, therefore it doesn't deserve civil rights protections — then they need to be consistent and argue and advocate for stripping away civil rights protection for people of faith....[because faith is a choice too]..."  Read more