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• Reporting on quacks and pseudoscience: The problem for journalists

  By Ecantados on April 19, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about pseudoscience goes much broader. In part that’s because quack science has penetrated… Read More ›

• A Muslim Champion in the Fight Against Anti-Semitism

  By konigludwig on April 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  By Donald Snyder Siavosh Derakhti, a 23-year-old Swedish Muslim, seems an unlikely champion in the fight against anti-Semitism. But Derakhti, whose parents immigrated to Sweden from Iran, has been recognized for his work in combating hatred and bigotry. When he… Read More ›

• Christian Dominionists in the US Congress today….or a Book Review of “Christian Nation” by Fredric C. Rich

  By storyartist on April 13, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  October 6, 2013 by Paul Loebe This is my review of the book ‘Christian Nation’ The premise behind the book is that in the year 2008 John McCain gets elected to high office as the President of the United States…. Read More ›

• First Hologram Protest in History Held Against Spain’s Gag Law

  By storyartist on April 11, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Spanish citizens held the first hologram protest in history in order to protest without violating the new draconian guidelines of the National Security Act, the new amendments to the Penal Code and the Anti-terror law. http://embed.bambuser.com/broadcast/5418972 According to the recently… Read More ›

• ‘The Culture War’ — A Battle The GOP Can’t Win

  By genvana on April 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  By Leonard Pitts The argument is over and conservatives have lost. Some of them just don’t know it yet. That’s the takeaway from the remarkable events of last week wherein the states of Indiana and Arkansas executed high-speed U-turns —… Read More ›

• The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States

  By genvana on April 6, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Average Number of Days above 95 degrees Along the coast, rising sea-levels will likely put billions of dollars of property and infrastructure at risk. Further inland, increasingly warm and dry conditions threaten the productivity of one of the richest agricultural… Read More ›

• Hobby Lobby Ruling Opened Floodgates For Indiana Discrimination Law

  By genvana on April 3, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  By: Rmuse – Wednesday, April, 1st, 2015 Nearly all parents attempt to teach their children from a young age that every one of their decisions in life will have consequences; no matter how inconsequential they may seem at the time…. Read More ›

• Kenya Says Operation Against Al-Shabab Militants Is Over; 147 Dead

  By konigludwig on April 2, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Kenya’s National Disaster Operation Center says the government’s operation against al-Shabab militants on a university campus in Garissa is over. It says that 147 people were killed, along with four militants. The center added that 587 students had been evacuated… Read More ›

• Eroding Freedom in the Name of Freedom

  By konigludwig on March 31, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  When the federal government adopted a religious protection act in 1993, same-sex marriage was not on the horizon. An informal coalition of liberals and conservatives endorsed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because it seemed to protect members of vulnerable religious… Read More ›

• Songs

  By Ecantados on March 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  single, solo songs, sang throaty renditions, vibrating emotional, deeply heartfelt softly sung, molasses slow words written, whispering lines sliced through the words capturing the essence within a degree of meaning sobbing, special scintillating sliding over structured scales no limits lethargically… Read More ›

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