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If the Court Repeals Obamacare, Republicans Don't Need to Worry Too Much About Replacing It

A rash of news stories have been published this week examining how the GOP will handle things if the Supreme Court votes next month to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Amazingly, all leave out the single most important and obvious impact a court rebuke would have. Hint: It&rsq …

Traces of Marijuana Found in Trayvon Martins Body: Does It Matter?

Among the voluminous evidence released Thursday in the shooting death of 17-year-old Florida high school student Trayvon Martin is a toxicology report showing that the teen had trace levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in his blood and urine.  …

Leader of Barack Obamas former church defends president on gay marriage

CHICAGO — The leader of President Barack Obama’s former church in Chicago has come out against statements by other African-American clergy who condemned the president’s endorsement last week of same-sex marriage. The Rev. Otis Moss III, the senior pastor of T …

Mitt Romney's Got 99 Problems, And Equality Is Number 1!

It seems for the moment that the arc of the moral universe is bending toward equality. On the heels of the president's historic announcement supporting marriage equality last week, several officials and even rap mogul and philanthropist Jay-Z have come out o …

Anti-gay Bigot Agenda Revealed: Divide the Fags and the N*ggers, "Sideswipe" Obama

What? Too obscene? Something is obscene, but the words I used in the title of this article pale in comparison to the obscenity of the strategy that is being pursued by the bigoted anti-gay evangelists - lead by the National Organization for Marriage. The Human Rights Campa …

Students Photobombed - Lighten up and have a smile

Remember the first time you realized your teachers were human beings instead of fun-hating discipline drones who, to paraphrase Calvin & Hobbes, emerged from a coffin every August, craving the scent of fear and human suffering? These teachers banded together to photobom …

Higher education linked to longer life, CDC report shows

The study found that in 2010, 31% of adults ages 25 to 64 with a high school diploma or less were currently smoking, compared with 24% of those who had some college and 9% with a bachelor's degree. "Highly educated people tend to have healthier behaviors, avoid unhealthy ones  …

Tennessee's drug testing plan for welfare recipients faces constitutional hurdles

Yolanda Powers is willing to take a drug test in order to qualify for welfare. But she doesn’t think people struggling to get back on their feet should have to pay for it. Like many of the thousands of Tennesseans receiving benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Need …

Breaking: Bomb Threats At HRC

Several different sources report bomb threats at HRC headquarters this morning, and the HRC offices, in Washington, D.C. were evacuated in a precautionary measure. HRC is the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT rights organization. No other details are avail …

Pope Tells Catholics To Ignore The Bible, Become Political

Pope Benedict XVI this week told Catholics they should become more political, ignoring what the Bible teaches about politics. Speaking in Tuscany, the Pope urged the melding of Church and State, and told listeners to be “the engine of society in promoting peace throu …

Should Parents Be Able To Sue For 'Wrongful Birth'?

Several states, including Kansas and New Jersey, are debating so-called "wrongful birth" laws that would prevent parents from suing a doctor who fails to warn them about fetal problems. Abortion rights activists say the laws give doctors the right to withhold information so wo …

Judge throws out couple's lawsuit against parents of Thanksgiving killer

 Saying parents can't be held responsible for the acts of their adult children, a judge has thrown out a multi-million-dollar lawsuit a Jupiter couple filed against the parents of a mentally disturbed man who killed their 6-year-old daughter and three other family members in …

Bristol Palin's 'Righteous Leadership' Makes Limbaugh Proud

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni today, in “The Right’s Righteous Frauds,” takes on Bristol Palin and other radical right wing hypocrites who have decided “personal circumstance and past error needn’t prevent someone from claiming  …

50 Years of Government Spending, In 1 Graph

Of each dollar the federal government spends, how much goes to defense? How much goes to Social Security? How much goes to interest on the debt? And how has this sort of thing changed over time?

How hip-hop is finally losing its homophobic image

To say that hip-hop has enjoyed an uneasy relationship with homosexuality would be an understatement. Since time immemorial, from Chuck D ("From what I know/the parts don't fit") through Brand Nubian ("Don't understand their ways/And I ain't down with gays") to Eminem …

Top Ten Reasons to Ban Same-sex Marriages

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester and air conditioning. 2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.      

North Carolina Church Apologizes For Amendment

Right when you were just starting to lose all hope that tolerant, loving Christians would speak up… Spotted on HRC North Carolina’s Facebook Page in response to the passage of an amendment barring equal rights to gay couples: “MissionGathering Christian Chu …

The Ultimate Mother's Day Playlist

The annals of rock & roll folklore are full of tough mothers, evil mothers, motorcycle mamas, mothers of invention. Although stars love to get sentimental over their mamas, there’s something special about the fearsome, badass maternal figures of rock & roll & …

$14-million lawsuit for wrongful conviction against Ontario government launched

TORONTO — Romeo Phillion, who spent 31 years in prison before his murder conviction was quashed, launched a $14-million lawsuit against the Ontario government last week.   Phillion's case stems from the 1967 murder of Ottawa firefighter Leopold Roy.   Philli …

Oppose Same-Sex Marriage? Give up your legal rights.

Marriage (also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but is usually an institution in which interpersonal relatio …

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Austerity Can't Be Just for Regular People

It didn’t take long to crank up the backlash against European voters. This is inevitable whenever a socialist wins a major election, but particularly now, when new French president François Hollande rode to victory shouting, "Austerity can no longer be inevitable!"  …

Is This the Most Boring Election Ever?

I was channel-surfing the other day, looking for something genuinely interesting on television, like maybe a repeat of the Big Ten Network's Diamond Report or video of a wrecked Nazi tugboat, when my fingers got stuck on a news channel. There, lighting up an NBC broadca …

Catholic League Suggests Polygamy Next Step In Obama Marriage Evolution

“The president of the United States likes the idea of Tom and Dick marrying. He did not say whether he supports Tom, Dick and Harry marrying, or whether he is ‘evolving’ in that direction,” Catholic League President Bill Donohue said today, in a blog post  …

5 Things That Maurice Sendak Taught Us

Maurice Sendak was an awesome kid's book author. Why? Because he came up with some severely messed up lessons for children. In honor of all those afternoons sitting on carpet squares reading Chicken Soup With Rice, here are the most important things he taught the kids of the worl …

Top Sponsor Of Gay Ban Amendment One Cannot Support His Anti-Gay Beliefs

The late James Forrester, the North Carolina state senator who was the chief sponsor of Amendment One, was interviewed by veteran journalist Michelangelo Signorile in September of 2011. In this video posted by Signorile, the late Senator Forrester could not  …

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