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7 years ago+8 8 0Atheist Debates - You're not an atheist, you're an agnostic
Do the labels matter? What if they get in the way? Weren't we having a great issue-based conversation before you decided to change the topic to the labels?
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7 years ago+32 32 0 x 2Straight Talk About ‘Crooked Hillary’ Clinton
The far right has been trying to besmirch Hillary Clinton for more than two decades, and yet after some 20 official investigations, they still have little or nothing to show for it.
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7 years ago+10 10 0Atheist Debates - What does atheism offer?
I've frequently been asked "What does atheism have to offer?" - and it's come up so many times that it seemed like a good idea to offer a little more than the obvious answer.
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7 years ago+6 6 0Why Universities Are a Key Battleground for Human Rights in India
The year 2016 began for the government of India with a huge hiccup. Rohith Vemula, a research scholar who happened to be a Dalit (or from the so-called untouchable caste), committed suicide on January 17. He took this step after his university admini ...
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7 years ago+5 5 0Kansas collected $45m less than expected in September, adding to budget shortfall
State government now faces a shortfall greater than $60 million, just three months — or one quarter — into the fiscal year. Barring a dramatic turnaround, lawmakers and Gov. Sam Brownback will confront a bleak financial situation when the Legislature ...
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7 years ago+17 17 0‘You worthless … scum’: What it’s like to be targeted by a Donald Trump subreddit
Something was rotten in . . . well, as it turned out, Reddit, the social media forum that calls itself “The Front Page of the Internet” and is often associated with Internet mischief, and worse. In the midst of this, I received an email from my coll ...
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7 years ago+19 19 0 x 1Barack Obama on 5 Days That Shaped His Presidency
On August 25, after a short trip to Baton Rouge to assess flooding in Louisiana and before what will likely be his last visit to China on Air Force One, Barack Obama sat down at the White House to reflect on the past eight years. He led America throu ...
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7 years ago+18 18 0Trump for dummies
When Republicans express outrage at Donald Trump's racism, they are being disingenuous or self-deluded.
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7 years ago+24 24 0Is religion really under threat?
From 2012: A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of secularism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: the pope, politicians from both the Conservative and Labour parties, Melanie Phillips ...
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7 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore suspended from office for remainder of term
Alabama’s top judge was suspended from the bench and removed from office without pay for the remainder of his term, the state’s Court of the Judiciary ruled Friday. This is the second time Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, ha ...
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7 years ago+3 3 0Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: September 2016
There is widespread support for a variety of actions in order to keep costs down including requiring drug companies to release information to the public on how they set their drug prices, allowing the federal government to negotiate with drug compani ...
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7 years ago+26 26 0Hungry?
It's lunchtime for me and I'm getting hungry, but I'm atypically undecided on what to have. What do you do when you can't decide what to do for lunch?
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7 years ago+21 21 0The most dangerous conspiracy theory of 2016
In a presidential campaign consumed by conspiracy theories, the most dangerous one looming over these final six weeks isn’t about President Barack Obama’s birthplace or whether Hillary Clinton is sick with more than pneumonia. It’s the suggestion th ...
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7 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Cross Ways
A pastor at a Corpus Christi church is on a mission to build “the largest cross in the Western Hemisphere.”
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7 years ago+10 10 0Government approves yet more religious free schools just days after faith school admissions announcement
In line with its ambition to deliver 500 new free schools by 2020, the Government has given the green light to 11 new religious schools in its latest wave of 77 free school approvals. The schools are the first to be approved since the Government anno ...
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7 years ago+3 3 0Christian arguments are just as nebulous as their deity
You want to know what those New Atheists, who are the same as the Old Atheists, are all about? We actually have important questions.
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7 years ago+3 3 0Corporate tax chartbook: How corporations rig the rules to dodge the taxes they owe
Rich multinational corporations avoiding their fair share of U.S. taxes means that domestic firms and American workers have to foot the bill. It also means that corporations are not paying their fair share for our infrastructure, schools, public safe ...
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7 years ago+43 44 1 x 1IMPORTANT - Save The Day
The world's biggest celebrities explain why it is Important that you vote on November 8!
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7 years ago+21 21 0Brian Cox: ‘It’s a book about how to think’
Professor Brian Cox is advanced fellow of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He is about to embark on a nationwide tour to promote the ideas in his new book, Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos.
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7 years ago+27 27 0California Is a Governor’s Signature Away From Reining in Policing for Profit. The Federal Government and Other States Should Follow Its Lead.
It may come as a surprise, but throughout the country, police officers are legally allowed to take and keep your cash and property — even if you are never charged or arrested for a crime. All it takes is officers claiming they think your belongings w ...