Gun control and does my saying I am an atheist insult you?

Issues in the News: I. Global warming is the worst that has been seen since 11,000 years ago. That's a darn long time. It took 4000 years for the earth to warm 1.25 degrees C (which is over 2 degrees F) from 11,000 years ago to 7000 years ago. Tiny marine organisms were used...

Right to vandalize atheist signs and gay teens pic censored?

Bunch of issues in the news: I. Two gay high school girls had a picture in their school yearbook removed by the school adminstration. The reason given is that it was too much of a display of affection. Maybe, or maybe not, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it was because...

Clint Eastwood and President Obama out front for marriage equalit

Clint Eastwood, and a group of other Republicans, filed a brief in support of marriage equality for gay men and gay women in the state of California. Good. Mr. Eastwood has always been a libertarian Republican, not beholden to the superstitions and dogma of the Republican...

Women in prison for baring breasts and more anti-gay hysteria

I. ssues in the news: I. A Texas Republican legislator named Drew Springer has proposed a bill in that state that would cut health care funding for any school district in the state that offer domestic partnership benefits to employees. Well in particular, any gay employees....

Michelle Obama at the Oscars and oh no, no pope in office

Issues in the News:I Well, Pope Benedict XVI has left and there is no more pope in the Vatican, and the world hasn't collapsed. No person in the world right now is infalliable, that is until the Vatican annouces someone else. By the way, one of the more anti-gay...

What are the origins of our universe, anyway?

Is there a god? Maybe, maybe not. But if a god exists, I strongly doubt it is the god of the Christian bible. It would be more like the god that many of America's Founding Fathers believed in two hundred years ago, a prime mover who set the universe in motion. The universe...

Broke Public Pension Funds And Exotic Boondoggles

http://economicrisis.com/broke-public-pension-funds-and-exotic-boondoggles/1077 Broke Public Pension Funds And Exotic Boondoggles That state and local government pension funds are going broke isn’t a new problem. That it’s much worse than reported by those pension...

M. Obama at the Oscars and countdown to the Pope being nope pope

Issues in the News: I Well, Pope Benedict XVI has only a few more hours left and then the chaos of no pope in Rome! Well, there is no Italian government in Rome right now, so I guess it isn't that bad. One of the more anti-gay Cardinals, Keith O'Brien of Britain, will not be...

NHL: Detroit Red Wings vs Los Angeles Kings Match Live Streaming

While improved offensive play and some solid defense has keyed the Los Angeles Kings' two-week run of success, a sudden goal surge has the Detroit Red Wings in position to equal their longest winning streak of 2013. NHL: Detroit Red Wings vs Los Angeles Kings...

Night of surprises at the Academy Awards 2013

A look at the most significant and what was not known during the night of the Oscars 2013. Tears, joys, surprises, screams, applause and music, lots of musical performance that had something quietly to emcee...

City Of L.A. Targets Infowars Over “Illegally Posted Signs”

http://economicrisis.com/city-of-l-a-targets-infowars-over-illegally-posted-signs/411 City Of L.A. Targets Infowars Over “Illegally Posted Signs” The City of L.A. is attempting to fine Infowars for signs that have nothing to do with the company. Image: Wikimedia...

Struggling to Care For Our Broken LA Veterans

http://economicrisis.com/struggling-to-care-for-our-broken-la-veterans/192 Struggling to Care For Our Broken LA Veterans Three Old Veterans Guard members protest conditions at the Los Angeles National Veterans Home campus on the corner of Wilshire and San Vicente in...

Alyson Hannigan of "How I Met Your Mother" is threatened to kill

Actress Alyson Hannigan has had to resort to the Superior Court of Los Angeles to seek a restraining order for her, her husband and her two children, against a stalker who has received death threats on social...

Would Bruno Mars be fine in NYC without police harassment?

If you are a young black or latino man in New York City, like the star singer Bruno Mars, the 4th Amendment does not really apply to you. It does in theory, and arguably it still does somewhat in part, but not really on the streets of the city. That is not to say that a young...

The NRA and foreign gun running

I have written before about how the National Rifleman Association, or the NRA, is engaged in character attacks on President Obama. How it has opposed universal background checks while pretending that it isn't doing just that. Well, Jon Stewart put a slapdown on the NRA and...

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