If there is one hard and fast rule about religious fundamentalists, they get very mad when there are a group of people who don't believe in their doctrines. Indeed, they get very angry when people dare to say their religion is balderdash. Well, if you are an atheist and...
Tea Party, Or Progressive Agenda Movement Declaration Document? This weekend, some noise and attention was trying to be made here in Los Angeles. Just as some organized people were trying to make, for the last...
opinion by Edmund Jenks | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago 358 views | 2 recommendations | 8 comments
The ancient Greeks regarded ignorance as evil; but that view should be clarified. Ordinary ignorance - ignorance that is willing to learn and to stop being ignorance - is a correctable condition. The real problem is with aggressive ignorance - ignorance that is not...
Last night Glenn Beck went to a viewing of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps in Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. A mob of rowdy, mainly twenty-something Manhattanites presented his family with a hostile environment. Beck's wife had wine intentionally...
"Despite repeated condemnations by Jewish groups for his history of using anti-Semitic stereotypes and trivializing the Holocaust, Glenn Beck is using a tour of Auschwitz to promote his new subscription-based online media platform, GBTV. Beck announced on his radio show...
Glenn Beck to End Daily Show on Fox News Right-wing commentator Glenn Beck is walking away from his daily program on Fox News (i.e. it's getting canceled). While no end date was announced for Glenn Beck's show, his...
created by Jordan Yerman | 44 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago 138 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The annual Conservative Political Action Conference later this month will as usual feature a slate of Republican presidential hopefuls. But the news just may be who isn't there. Citing scheduling conflicts, Sarah Palin has declined to serve as the keynote speaker at the...
400 Rabbis Publish Open Letter In Wall Street Journals Demanding Apology From Glenn, Beck, Fox News Roger Ailes Chief Over George Soros Nazi Flap Glen Beck, Rubert Murdoch, and the chief of Fox News Roger Ailes...
Included are: Photo of Glenn Beck; Photo of Jared Lee Loughner right after the shooting; Photo of Jared Lee Loughner sometime before the shooting. What freaks me out is that Loughner looks like Glenn Beck in the...
"Discussing Democratic leaders during a June 2010 broadcast for the Republican Fox News Channel, conspiracy host Glenn Beck told his followers they would have to “shoot them in the head” in order to bring an end to an alleged “communist” agenda. “They believe in...
"Glenn Beck is trending like crazy after a photo of him holding a gun was randomly generated by his website. The kicker here is that Beck had just published an article stating “We must stand together against all violence.” Of course someone just so happened to visit...
" Glenn Beck said he thinks ten percent of all Muslims are terrorists. As ThinkProgress pointed out, Beck’s estimate would mean that roughly 157 million Muslims in the world are terrorists. Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck decried the relative lack of...
After much uproar and a synchronous outcry from conservatives, the Republican Party and the Right Wing, the Obama administration’s head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano, in an act...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 481 views | 14 recommendations | 6 comments
My writing on a number of issues, such as challenging the conventional explanation of the fall of the Roman Empire, has been described as presumptious. The response is that, when conventional explanations are false, challenging them and replacing them is a service done to...
One frequent claim made by American Right is that the Roman Empire fell apart because of its "decadence." Like most claims of American Right this one is wrong, and it is time that more people see that.The Roman...