Politics

August 2015

August 23, 2015
Earlier this year, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed a bill allowing a Ten Commandments monument...
August 22, 2015
While Europe is facing a growing influx of migrants, a spokesperson for the Slovak Ministry...
August 22, 2015
Usually, when someone in Mississippi says prayer will fix a problem, it's easy for me...
August 21, 2015
If you've ever voted, there's a chance you may have done so at a local...
August 21, 2015
When a school board is sued over for illegally praying to Jesus at meetings, you'd...
August 21, 2015
Only 5 members of Congress -- all Democrats in the House -- received an "A"...
August 20, 2015
Sarah Posner, writing for Religion Dispatches, explains how Donald Trump is creating a rift within...
August 20, 2015
If you're a high school student in Arizona, good luck to you this year. According to...
August 20, 2015
Last week, I posted about the problems with President Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood...
August 20, 2015
Australian public schools have been offering "special religious instruction" (SRI) which is something of a...
August 20, 2015
The Bell County Board of Education in Kentucky used to allow ministers to deliver pre-game...
August 20, 2015
According to a lawsuit filed earlier this month, Courtney Canfield, a former staffer at the...
August 19, 2015
David Barton, the Christian pseudo-historian who lies for a living, told another whopper on his...
August 19, 2015
You know all those instances of pareidolia, where people "see" patterns that aren't actually there...
August 19, 2015
Earlier this year, Missouri House Speaker John Diehl (a Republican) resigned after it was revealed...
August 19, 2015
If you visit Young's Park in Knoxville, Iowa, you'll see a display of a kneeling...
August 19, 2015
Did you know we're still talking about the Ten Commandments monument on the Oklahoma Capitol...
August 18, 2015
In response to the multiple murders of atheist bloggers in Bangladesh this year alone, and...
August 18, 2015
Over the weekend, we lost Julian Bond at age 75. He was a former chairman...
August 18, 2015
We can now add atheism to the ever-growing list of things Carly Fiorina knows little...
August 18, 2015
We know fundamentalist Christian pastors can't do science. Turns out they can't do math either....
August 17, 2015
Last year, This American Life aired an episode all about how a group of ultra-orthodox...
August 17, 2015
You all know Michigan State Rep. Todd Courser by now because he's the anti-gay rights...
August 16, 2015
Last month, the Facebook page for Jonesboro (Arkansas) 911 posted several items promoting Christianity:
August 15, 2015
I posted earlier about a Nativity Scene battle taking place in Belen, New Mexico. Mayor...
August 15, 2015
Last week, in the weirdest political sex scandal I've heard in a long while, it...
August 15, 2015
It's not often you read such a blistering editorial against the Religious Right, much less...
August 14, 2015
After spending a quarter-century as an activist and heading up Americans United for Separation of...
August 14, 2015
Wow. Ben Carson the Presidential candidate must be furious with Ben Carson the neurosurgeon. Despite...
August 14, 2015
Last week, 40-year-old Niloy Neel (below), an organizer of Science and Rationalists' Association of India,...
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