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PRO-BORN: A FORMER EVANGELICAL ON THE SINGLE-ISSUE POLITICS OF WHITE CHRISTIANS Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in the polling booth, the sounds of the social hall echoing around me. The same refrain played every time I convinced myself I’d vote for...

On Witches And Terrorists. Why torture doesn’t work As recounted by author and journalist Daniel P. Mannix, during the European witch craze the Duke of Brunswick in Germany invited two Jesuit scholars to oversee the Inquisition’s use of torture to extract information from accused witches...

like this is really new? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/big-oil-emissions_us_573c9d81e4b0aee7b8e8a046?ir=Science&section=us_science&utm_hp_ref=science

God is Only a Theory July 2007 I have given much thought to the creationists’ demand that evolution be stricken from public school science classes, or that it be taught side-by-side with creationism because “evolution is only a theory” and since “no one was there to witness the...

Hubris: Selling the Iraq War - MSNBC Documentary FULLY Revealed by Rachel Maddow - YouTube

How politics distorts science on both ends of the spectrum Believe it or not—and I suspect most readers will not—there’s a liberal war on science. Say what? We are well aware of the Republican war on science from the eponymous 2006 book (Basic Books) by Chris Mooney, and I have...

http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/09/25/what-is-a-fair-share-in-paying-taxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+skepticblog%2FcxSs+%28Skepticblog%29

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2012/06/the-science-of-righteousness/

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2012/09/conspiracy-contradictions/

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/coloring_book_features_trading_cards_mZWnOdNeTdPDmSltOaCwGI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National what? no george bush?

The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry: “WHERE IS THE EXPERIENCE OF RED IN YOUR BRAIN?” The question was put to me by Deepak Chopra at his Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, Calif., on March 3. A posse of presenters argued that the lack of a complete...

Dr Robert Spitzer apologises for 'fatally flawed' study, published in 2001, which claimed gay people could be 'cured' if properly motivated One of the most influential figures in modern psychiatry has apologised to America's gays for a scientific study which supported attempts to "cure"...

Much Ado about Nothing Science closes in on why there is something instead of nothing Why is there something rather than nothing? This is one of those profound questions that is easy to ask but difficult to answer. For millennia humans simply said, “God did it”: a creator existed before...

Death, Cognition and the Making of Civilization How awareness of our mortality may be a major driver of civilization By Michael Shermer | April 6, 2012 |51 Imagine yourself dead. What picture comes to mind? Your funeral with a casket surrounded by family and friends? Complete darkness...

The Doctor Is Way Out An amateur examination of one shrink's noodle By Steve Mirsky | April 7, 2012 | This column is not about Newt Gingrich. Nor is it about Chaz Bono. It’s not even about how the thought of them dancing together would make Rick Santorum’s head explode. No, this column...

Norway killer's online idol steps out of shadows

http://www.christianpost.com/news/warren-jeffs-trial-jury-returns-guilty-verdict-against-polygamist-53402/ need to round up a few more of these perverts who try and hide under the guise of religious belief.

http://4unews.com/7290/rumsfeld-sued-over-torture-at-war-prison/ even tortured their own side.

The Kill Team in Afghanistan and the Kill Team at Home No Good Men Left Here By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM We already know enough from the Wikileaks Afghan archives to conclude that the news of the so-called “Kill Team” in Afghanistan – twelve US Army soldiers wantonly murdering and mutilating...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JngI1_8beoA&feature=player_embedded#!