A new Pew survey finds that the rates of intermarriage between ethnic groups has more than doubled to 15% from just 6.7% in 1980.
Is more intermarriage good for society? More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) say that more people of different races marrying each other has been a change for the better [Read more…]
Rush Limbaugh seems to think that with the perception that the economy is improving, the best strategy for Republicans would be to wage yet another ‘culture war’ election. He says, “Something tells me, that if the upcoming election could be decided on social issues, the Republicans could win that in [Read more…]
In a post yesterday I wrote about the dumbing down of news in America by replacing news coverage with [Read more…]
Stephen Colbert got a lot of comedy mileage by creating his own Super PAC. Colbert is the latest in a long line of such political satirists. Older readers may recall the Youth International Party (or ‘Yippies)’ that ran a boar hog named Pigasus for president in the 1968 elections under the slogan “Pork power!” Or perennial candidate Pat Paulsen, with his woebegone [Read more…]
The Daily Show finds that Time magazine’s cover stories vary with the different editions for the various regions of the world. This is not surprising in itself except for the fact that it seems as if Time believes its American readers are more [Read more…]
It has been commented on by many people that the Republican party seems to have gone off in a weird direction, adopting so many extreme positions that the breed known as ‘moderate Republicans’ is in danger of becoming extinct. The Onion reports on a promising new program [Read more…]
The Catholic hierarchy and the Republican party are digging in their heels in their opposition to health insurance companies being required to provide contraception coverage to all their employees, and even extending their stand to opposing insurers providing employees with anything the employer finds morally objectionable.
They think they can win this by framing it as an issue [Read more…]
Jon Stewart comes back from just one week’s break to find that America has been wrecked within that short time, with Rick Santorum becoming the frontrunner for the Republican nomination and a war on contraception already in progress. [Read more…]
An interesting discussion has broken out in the comments section of the post The weak historical evidence for Jesus that is related to the question of where the burden of proof lies when promoting or refuting a claim.
Those who started reading my blogs only after I moved to Freethought Blogs have been (so far at least) mercifully spared the many multi-part series on some topics that those [Read more…]