Atheist in Oklahoma asked by Wolf Blitzer on thanking a god?

In this short video CNN's Wolf Blitzer (still the coolest name in journalism) in the aftermath of the giant tornado in Oklahoma City, asks a woman named Rebecca Vitsmun (who is holding her son), "Do you thank the Lord?" Vitsmun replies, "I'm actually an atheist." I hope...

Homeland Security Funded Exercise Portrayed Homeschoolers as Terr

http://economicrisis.com/homeland-security-funded-exercise-portrayed-homeschoolers-as-terrorists/7615 Homeland Security Funded Exercise Portrayed Homeschoolers as Terrorists Taken on its own, the KOMO 4 News report below out of Seattle paints a stark and frightening...

Stop Calling Obama a Murderer

http://economicrisis.com/stop-calling-obama-a-murderer/7049 Stop Calling Obama a Murderer The problem with extremist rhetoric is that it distracts from substantive issues the public should be debating. When folks on the left or the right make outrageous, offensive...

FBI tells America: believe us and no one else

http://economicrisis.com/fbi-tells-america-believe-us-and-no-one-else/5360 FBI tells America: believe us and no one else The implication is clear: there is official truth and then there is everything else. How many times has that assertion put America in the dumper? ...

Obama’s Sad Role as National Grief Counselor

http://economicrisis.com/obamas-sad-role-as-national-grief-counselor/5333 Obama’s Sad Role as National Grief Counselor Just moments after he raised his right hand to take the oath of office at a time of economic despair in 2009, Barack Obama spoke of the resilience of...

Aftermath Of A Bubble And What Rises From The Ashes

http://economicrisis.com/aftermath-of-a-bubble-and-what-rises-from-the-ashes/5155 Aftermath Of A Bubble And What Rises From The Ashes Bubbles are a funny thing. Participants don’t see them. Outsiders shake their heads – until they themselves get sucked in. Central...

Obama Adversaries to be Blamed For Boston Attack?

http://economicrisis.com/obama-adversaries-to-be-blamed-for-boston-attack/4890 Obama Adversaries to be Blamed For Boston Attack? Rahm Emanuel’s call to “never let a serious crisis go to waste” is really going to come to the fore this week if yesterday’s Boston...

Judge sentences teen to church in Oklahoma

What do you think about a judge as part of a sentencing deal, mandating attendence to a mosque for 10 years? If you are the average American, you would be up and arms. If you are many on the Christian right-wing, you might even offer death threats to the judge. But Judge Mike...

Fionna Appled arrested for marijuana

Fiona Apple was a bigger star when I was younger, back in the 1990s. Not so big now. In fact, for those under 25, many of them probably never even heard of her. Well, she is still singing professionally and she was arrested on September 19th. She was arrested at a so called...

GOP congressman Akin again puts foot in mouth and theocrat judge

You might remember Republican Missouri Congressman Todd Akin. The man running for the U.S. Senate from that state, who believes that women who suffer "legitmate rape" don't get pregant, even though there are about 30,000 pregnancies per year to women who have been raped....