When I was in high school in Texas, English classes were a curious marriage of literature and language. A lot of books and short stories were read and a lot of essays were composed in...
In an interview with the Daily Beast, Ken Burns was talking about the SundanceNow Doc Club. The film will spotlight re-known documentaries, with films hand-picked by film icons and experts. The conversation touched on the...
Here's something you weren't expecting. Bristol Palin, daughter of the infamous Sarah Palin, announced on her blog today that she's expecting her second child. "I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment...
The name "Shared Responsibility Committees" -- SRCs for short -- sounds like something straight out of a George Orwell novel. It's actually what the FBI is calling its new initiative aimed at combating radicalization in the Muslim community.
On...
If you want to get an insight on just how unhinged the religious right is, yesterday's edition of "The 700 Club" provided a lovely example. One of Pat Robertson's viewers wondered why the Supreme Court...
In the days before Indiana Governor Mike Pence was to sign the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law, several major companies threatened to pull their businesses, and by extension tax money and jobs, out...
The American Family Association (AFA) says they have a perfect way to save millions of dollars in federal research money that's currently spent on HIV?AIDS: Just tell all gay people to "stop doing what they're...
How would you like to be denied a job because you're Muslim, or Jewish, or an atheist?
What about if you're LGBTQ?
What if you're an unmarried pregnant woman?
These questions are, of course, rhetorical. Denying an individual...
A mosque in San Jose, California, received a threatening letter earlier this week, and police are now investigating who may have sent the letter.
The Evergreen Islamic Center received the letter Wednesday. It said, in part,...
UPDATE: After we posted this story, the church took the video down. It only had about 2,000 views when we wrote this up, so I guess they didn't like the negative attention Liberal Americans gave...
The Supreme Court may want to be mighty careful when they issue their ruling on same-sex marriage later this year. According to well-known anti-gay activist Scott Lively, should the justices rule in favor of gay...
Me: Hello
Caller: Hello. Can I speak with Melanie?
Me: This is she.
Caller: Oh, good! Melanie this is Joe Smith with Acme surveys. Do you remember three weeks ago when someone was in your neighborhood and...
So, the Jehovah's Witnesses made an anti-wanking video for deaf people a couple of years ago. And it's epic. Besides the obviously insane message that wanking is something evil and wicked that will kill you,...
You may remember a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago about a hate pastor Steven Anderson, who said that he is against the "Pledge of Allegiance" because of...sodomy. Well, I have another outrageous claim...
It seems the Mormon Church, also known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), has a new enemy—same-sex couples and their children. In new policies added to the Mormon’s Handbook 1, same-sex...
What are the requirements to get into heaven, and who will be excluded?
Yesterday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) put out a very creepy Christmas message about President-elect Donald Trump.
From the message:
“Merry Christmas to all! Over two millennia ago, a new hope was born into the world, a...
Almost from the time Donald Trump's upset victory in the presidential election was beyond doubt, the religious right has been warning us against opposing him. Their explanation? Any opposition to Trump is being driven by...
When talking about terrorism, many Conservatives always ask, "Why don't Muslims stand up against ISIS?" Well, here we have about 20 million Muslims marching against ISIS, and many mainstream media outlets ignored it.
It began as...
A female Imam has founded a women-led Mosque in Denmark. Sherin Khankan calls her feminist project 'Mariam Mosque.' An author and commentator, she came up with the idea because she had often felt uncomfortable in male-dominated mosques.
This new...
