The state’s anti-gay discrimination bill is doomed, but this is just the first we’ve seen of stand-alone “religious liberty” bills.
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Guns and the Thug Life
There was only one thug in that convenience store parking lot, and it wasn’t Jordan Davis.
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When Culture Eclipses Class
How the UAW could organize NYU grad students and not Chattanooga, Tennessee auto workers
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Daily Meme: Kansas Is For Haters
Back in the day, if you wanted to locate the quintessence of American intolerance and backwardness, you had to look South-the deeper South, the better. But the Alabamas and Mississippis are now looking relatively fair-minded and rational compared to the nation’s new standard-bearer of hatred and stupidity: once-moderate Kansas. This week’s lead item from the […]
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Gird Thy Loins; War Is Nigh
Bobby Jindal tries to become a general in the eternal war on American Christians.
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Marriage Equality Opponents Left With Nothing But Tradition
Considering the value of tradition as momentum toward a final Supreme Court decision on marriage accelerates.
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New Orleans Deserved a Better Scandal than Ray Nagin’s
The city’s residents are bummed to have been duped by such a dullard.
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How Big Banks Are Cashing In On Food Stamps
Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done?
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Kansas’s Radical Attack on Gays and Lesbians
Not only does the state’s proposed law allow private businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples; it permits state employees to deny them basic services.
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America In Decline
Bad news: the USA accounts for a mere 4 out of every 10 dollars the human race spends on the machinery of war.