Christian right opposes girls in sports but wants gays imprisoned

Fundamentalist Christianity is very intolerant. Indeed, some of them are intolerant of girls or women playing competative sports. I was not aware of this until very recently, but I can't say I am the least bit surprised. A Christian fundamentalist named Scott Jonas wrote...

One man loses his job, and another man his life, for using pot

While support for marijuana legalization is rising in America, and there is overwhelming support for medical marijuana legalization, medical marijuana patients still suffer harsh discrimination. Sometimes they can lose their job, and sometimes they can lose their life. In the...

How can a DUI arrest lead to two years in jail without a trial?

Some interesting things happened in the news. I. A Republican legislator in Oregon is stating that there should be increased taxes on bicycles, because bike riders produce more global warming gases than cars. While I have my doubts that he even believes in global warming, I...

Ace of Cakes star gives a cake for same sex wedding

Congressman Rush Holt, a physicist by profession, gave a speech praising Charles Darwin on his birthday, February 12th. Strangely, Congressman Holt is not on the House Science Committee but Congrassman Broun is on it. Broun by the way, stated that evolution, embryology and...

The 'Science Guy' explains why creationism is bu

Evolution is the foundation for modern science. Bill Nye in this video explains that creationism, or the ironically evolved term, intelligent design, needlessly complicates things. He is exactly right, of course. Creationists state that life is so complex that it needs a...

It's O.K. to change your sex and police abuses once again

A number of different issues today. I. There is a woman who was born a man playing basketball for a small woman's college basketball team. A talk show host asked rhetorically, did she have the right to have this operation to go from a man to a woman. Well, it's her body. The...

US Military Sniper Stops Portland Mall Massacre

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/12/us-military-sniper-stops-portland-mall.html US Military Sniper Stops Portland Mall Massacre A new Federal Security Services report circulating in the Kremlin today states that a massacre was averted this past week at a shopping mall...

Absurd prostitution prosecution and hypocritical attack on Obama

Alexis Wright is a zumba instructor in Kennebunk, Maine. She is accused of prostitution with a list of men. A list, she herself created. All acts were consensual. Sex of course between consenting adults is purely legal. Prostitution is the only offense though that is...

MAN WHO SKIPPED PROBATION CAUGHT BECAUSE HE COULDN'T STAY OFF FB

James Tindell was supposed to be on the Lam, but he just couldn't stay of Facebook...read more: http://www.insaneasylumblog.com/2012/06/man-who-skipped-out-on-probation-caught.html#axzz1yoLhYSzC

Victory for free speech, jury affirms right to film police

Victory for freedom of speech and the press. A federal jury awarded damages to an Oregon man who was illegally arrested for filming a cop who he believed, was infringing on his First Amendment right to protest outside of a bank. Now, it seems that this guy had set up a table...

Victory for First Amendment, jury affirms right to film police

Victory for freedom of speech and the press. A federal jury awarded damages to an Oregon man who was illegally arrested for filming a cop who he believed, was infringing on his First Amendment right to protest outside of a bank. Now, it seems that this guy had set up a table...

New Belgium Brewing Seeks Films for Clips of Faith

New Belgium Brewing, maker of Fat Tire Amber Ale, is calling all filmmakers, beer-lovers and videographers! New Belgium’s Clips of Faith is in its third year and searching for short films of the tasty variety.   Clips of Faith is an 18-city tour where people can savor...

Should you be excluded from an area of a city, if not convicted?

Those areas being, those considered with higher than normal crime rates. In Cincinnati it was illegal,before a court ruling, to be in certain areas of the city even if only arrested. Even if the arrest did not meet the standards of probable cause, which is required for an...