22 year old female teacher arrested for alleged rape of student

I. A Courtney Louise Jarrell, who is a 22 year old high school math teacher /coach in Riverton High School in Utah, was charged with object rape, a first-degree felony, and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. The person she is accused of rape is a 17 year old...

NFL player busted in prostitution sting & marijuana & gay right

Issues in the news:I. Montana finally revoked its' anti-gay/ anti-sodomy law. This is though their state supreme court and the U.S. Supreme Court, had already overturned all such bans. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas continue to have such bans on their books.Indeed, in 2009, years...

Republicans ignore disasters caused by big business in the U.S.

I missed writing a column on Earth Day, so I will writing this one about threats to our health and environment. The fertilizer plant in West, Texas (south of Dallas) had 1350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that requires disclosure to the U.S. Department of Homeland...

Fundamentalists won't let men/women pray together

"The moment we allow these groups a foothold, then tomorrow they will start to restrain us in our own synagogues, in the name of democracy, in the name of liberalism and in the name of pluralism," says one Shmuel Poppenheim, an Israeli ultra-Orthodox activist. What he was...

Examples of Christian nationalism in our schools and gay marriage

Issues in the News:I. Bill O'Reilly, debated with devout Christian and talk show host Laura Ingraham about his previous on-air statement, "The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals. That is where the compelling argument is. We're Americans, we just want to be...

Fired for support of marriage equality and help free atheist!

Issues in the News:I. Dannika Nash wrote about Christian churches wondering why young people are leaving Christianity in droves, "(we) will not stick around to see the church fight gay marriage against our better judgment. It’s my generation who is overwhelmingly...

More examples of police arresting people for filming them

Police commonly arrest people for filming them. In fact, there are websites that exist to document this, such as Photography is Not a Crime. Arrests happen daily across the nation. Here are a few cases.I. Louisiana sheriff's deputies arrest a man for filming a traffic stop,...

Walmart ignores victims of factory fire and sex for McDonalds

Issues in the News:I. Walmart and Sears aren't going to pay anything to the victims, and their families, who either died or were hurt in the Bangladesh factory fire. More then 120 people died in this factory. WalMart has destroyed jobs in America, almost single handly...

The Republican Party rejects background checks on guns

Senator Ron Johnson, of our state of Wisconsin, has blood on his hands, along with other Republican Senators. He seemed that doing the bidding of the gun makers (the major benefactors of the NRA) by voting against universal background checks on all gun sales in America, was...

Christian nationalist legislator tells mother her child is a fool

I wish I wasn't writing this column, but alas, theocracy and Christian nationalism never sleeps. In the state of North Carolina there is a bill, with considerable Republican support, to enact a state church. The idea behind this bill is that the First Amendment's,...

GOP withdrawals med. marijuana bill because voters harass?

Issues in the news: I. Fox News, the propaganda arm of the religious right-wing in America, is upset that Google didn't do one of their famous holiday doodle screens with an Easter theme, on Easter. Who did they honor that day? Well, one of the greatest labor leaders that...

A tale of two Freds, one who welcomed you and one who hated you

Everyone of my age loved Mr. Rogers growing up. My age being the same age of watching the Incredible Hulk and MASH on television. Simply, Fred Rogers is one of the greatest and most wonderful men that our nation has ever produced. Although I an atheist and he was a...

Beyonce in support of same sex marriage and the Pope and guns

Various thoughts on various subjects: I. To those who state that we shouldn't have registration of guns or even background checks because Hitler took away all the guns of Germans, that is a myth. The average German continued to enjoy gun ownership throughout the world....

Man kicked arrested for visiting his married husband

Roger Gorley is a gay man who wanted to visit his married partner in a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Well, Missouri doesn't recognize same sex marriages from out of state. A nurse in the hospital denied him visitation as a family member. Mr. Gorley's daughter Amanda...

Fundamentalists won't let men/women pray together

"The moment we allow these groups a foothold, then tomorrow they will start to restrain us in our own synagogues, in the name of democracy, in the name of liberalism and in the name of pluralism," says one Shmuel Poppenheim, an Israeli ultra-Orthodox activist. What he was...