Angie's List Halts Expansion Project In Indiana, Citing Religious Bigotry Act
http://fox59.com/...Angie's List has said Bye-Bye to expansion in Indianapolis.INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (March 28, 2015) — Angie’s List announced Saturday that they will not me moving...
View ArticleIndiana Business Owner Claims He Will Now Openly Discriminate Against Gays...
Now that Republican Governor Mike Pence has confirmed there will be no changes to Indiana's Religious Bigotry Act, at least one Indiana business owner has publicly announced his intention to...
View ArticleNo, Apple, WalMart And The Rest, "Coming Out" Against These Religious Bigotry...
We've been treated over the last couple of days to terrific examples of, how shall I describe it ... perhaps ... gaywashing? Stern statements of disappointment from NASCAR, tut-tuts and inclusive...
View ArticleOklahoma's Earthquakes Are Becoming Too Frequent For The Oil and Gas Industry...
Blame for the surge in earthquakes in Oklahoma over the past five years is finally being placed where it belongs, on the oil and gas industry, despite the best efforts of that industry to buy off...
View ArticleHow Hot Can It Get? Here's How Hot.
Most reputable climate scientists project a global environmental catastrophe (such as the irreversible loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, causing sea levels to rise on the...
View ArticleGOP Grants Asylum to White "Home Schoolers," Turns Away Hispanic and Latino...
Republicans know the Latino and Hispanic community doesn't trust them on immigration issues. After all, the leading GOP voice on immigration has been Steven King (R. IA) who has characterized all...
View ArticleNothing Was Surrendered At Appomattox
In fanciful stories of Grant’s returning a ceremonial sword to Lee, or of the United States Army’s saluting its defeated foes at the laying-down-of-arms ceremony, white Americans fashioned a story of...
View ArticleCop "Taunts" Unarmed Latino Man Shot Dead By Police, By Tickling His Feet
In the seemingly endless continuum of police misconduct, this has to win some sort of prize:A Bakersfield police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after he allegedly tickled the feet...
View ArticleWe Just Had the Hottest March In Recorded History
There is the scientific and ideological language for what is happening to the weather, but there are hardly any intimate words. Is that surprising? People in mourning...
View ArticleLaughing All The Way To The Bank: Why Dodd-Frank And Wall Street Reform Never...
This is a piece of investigative journalism by Reuters' Charles Levinson that the Banking industry and the SEC would really prefer that Americans just ignore. And they'll...
View ArticleThe Unspoken American Experience: 1,500,000 Missing Black Men
Many of us knew this intuitively, but the numbers are still shocking:For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men –1.5 million of them– are,...
View ArticlePolitico: "Oh Dear, Should Obama Politicize The Everglades?"
Sometimes an article is so indicative of the sorry-assed state of American journalism that you have to step outside and catch your breath. Such is the case with Michael Grunwald's latest article in...
View ArticleBobby Jindal Vows To Remain A Bigoted, Hateful Jackass, Louisiana Be Damned
Bobby Jindal, Republican Governor of Louisiana and delusional Presidential wannabee, doubles down on his hatred in an Op-Ed in today's New York Times, declaring war on anyone who...
View ArticleNYTimes: The Koch Brothers and the Plutocrat Primary
The New York Times' Timothy Egan reminds us not to lose sight of the real enemy:While the political press was obsessing over what Hillary Clinton had for lunch, the real action this month in the...
View ArticleIs There Any Intelligent Life Out There? Maybe Not.
Last week two Senior NASA Scientists confidently predicted that we will find evidence of extraterrestrial life within a decade or so. Ellen Stofan, NASA's chief scientist and...
View ArticleA Millionaire In Finland Gets a $58,000 Ticket For Doing 64 In a 50 MPH Zone
Finland doesn't mess around when it comes to income inequality. Just ask Reima Kuisla, a Finnish businessman with an annual income of $7 million.He was recently fined 54,024...
View ArticleNasty Wingnut Spoils Kindergarten Concert With Racist Ranting
Some nasty, malevolent wingnut took it on himself to spoil a kindergarten concert in Iowa by yelling "USA! English Only!" over and over when the concert was introduced first in English, and then by a...
View ArticleNYTimes: Conservative Economics and Income Inequality Are Literally Killing Us.
Thirty-five years ago, babies born in the U.S. had an infant mortality rate equal to Germany. Today, American babies die at twice the rate of those in Germany.Thirty-five years ago, the U.S. ranked...
View ArticleHow The American Media Would Have Covered The Death Of Steven Biko
On 12 September 1977, Stephen Bantu Biko died in a prison cell in Pretoria. The announcement of Biko's death by the South African government the next day sparked international and national protest....
View Article"F*ck The Media," Courtesy Of Morgan Freeman
The iconic Morgan Freeman has with three little words done us all a huge service.Morgan Freeman had strong words for the media on Baltimore coverage, and called...
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