Someone on Google+ posted a link to this weird post on a Christian apologetics blog claiming that atheists support the idea of supplying soldiers with “comfort women” — women whose sole job during WW2 for the Japanese was to provide sexual release for the troops.
May 22 2013
This is What Atheists Don’t Support
May 22 2013
A Terrible Juliet-Juliet Prosecution
A few years ago, Todd Heywood and I did a lot of reporting on so-called Romeo and Juliet relationships and how the use of statutory rape laws against young people who are just over 18 with a girlfriend or boyfriend under 18. Here’s a horrible story of a Juliet-Juliet prosecution that threatens to ruin the life of Kaitlyn Hunt.
May 22 2013
Wingnut Wants to Shoot Hillary in the Vagina
Pete Santilli is still a relatively obscure internet radio show host, but he’s attracting some pretty big names, including Ted Nugent and Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America. And this guy makes Alex Jones seem sane. On a show last week, he declared his desire to kill a whole lot of political leaders — including a lurid and disturbing desire to shoot Hillary Clinton in the vagina.
May 22 2013
Appeals Court Cuts Crack Sentences
In 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity in sentences for crack vs powder cocaine from 100-1 to 18-1. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that the new sentencing guidelines applied to cases where the defendant had been convicted before that law was passed but not yet sentenced. Now the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that those sentenced under the old rules must have their sentences reduced as well. The court said:
May 22 2013
Those Damn Atheist Bullies!
The Western Center for Journalism was founded by the Worldnutdaily’s Joseph Farah, so it comes as no surprise that rationality and objectivity continue to elude them. This article by B. Christopher Agee is a perfect example. “Atheist bullies force school to cancel graduation,” the headline blares.
May 22 2013
Tea Partiers Pray for Conversion of George Soros
The Alexandria Lakes Area Tea Party, a Minnesota affiliate of the Tea Party Patriots, is asking its followers to pray for George Soros to convert from atheism (is he even an atheist? I have no idea) to Christianity. Since they can’t figure out how to make PDF files open in a browser, City Pages has the full document. It’s pretty funny stuff.
May 22 2013
Edwords Urges DC Council to Allow Secular Wedding Officiants
Fred Edwords, the former executive director of the American Humanist Association, testified in front of the Washington, DC City Council last week to urge them to pass the Marriage Officiant Amendment Act of 2013, which would allow couples to choose anyone to officiate at their wedding by letting them get a one-time use license to do so. Here is his testimony:
May 22 2013
Bill Would Require Warrants for Seizing Phone Records
In the wake of the scandal over the DOJ’s seizure of the phone records of reporters from the Associated Press, a bipartisan group of legislators has submitted a bill to require that any such seizures can only be done pursuant to a warrant issued by a judge.
May 21 2013
Who’ll Stop the Rain for Obama?
In case you had some doubts as to whether the wingnuts could lose their mind over something even more petty, stupid and hypocritical than that “fallen eagle” nonsense last week, I present to you: Umbrellagate. The latest right wing freakout is over a Marine on President Obama’s detail holding an umbrella to keep the rain off him during a press conference. Jim Hoft, the dumbest man on the internet, gets the ball rolling:
May 21 2013
Barber Lies About DOJ Pride Pamphlet
Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel is clutching his pearls and cranking up the faux outrage machine once again, this time over a pamphlet sent out to management at the Department of Justice that offers suggestions on how to maintain a positive work environment for LGBT employees. And he lies about the content of that pamphlet in order to claim that it’s an “attack on freedom.”
May 21 2013
So, This Organization Exists
Doctors Without Borders is one of the world’s most selfless and worthwhile charities. But did you know there is a group called Homeopaths Without Borders? Yep, it exists. I wish I was making this up, but I’m not. Because it’s important that the world’s poorest countries have access to completely ineffective medical woo.
May 21 2013
Saudi Wingnut: Twitter Leads to Hell
A Saudi cleric who leads that country’s religious police — how’s that for a dangerous concept? — has declared that using Twitter will condemn someone to an eternity in hell. Why? They don’t say. Some weird mixture of Islamic fundamentalism and Luddite philosophy, perhaps.
May 21 2013
Texas Judge Uses ‘Morality Clause’ to Split Up Couple
Here’s another appalling case of a judge using a divorce or custody agreement to punish someone just for being gay. A Texas judge is ordering a mother’s lesbian partner to move out of the home they share because of a morality clause that he inserted into the woman’s divorce decree.
May 21 2013
The Greatest Conservative Rap Songs
Andrew Sullivan called my attention to the American Enterprise Institute’s list of the 21 “greatest conservative rap songs.” Let’s just say that it would not look out of place in The Onion. That they actually appear to be serious makes if it infinitely more amusing. To make the list, says author Stan Veuger, a song must “express support not just for pro-family social values, but also for small government and peace through strength.” So naturally, number 21 is from Justin Bieber:
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