Author: Steven D

What Values? Fundies and Torture

Who knew atheists had higher morals than fundamental Christians? Uh, a lot of us, actually, and now we have more poll results to prove it: Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds WASHINGTON (CNN) — The more often...

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Deep Thought

Conservatives are enraged that we still are blaming Bush (well, really Cheney since W was just the front man) for the mess the country is in after 100 days of Obama’s first term. I don’t know why. They milked the...

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Post-Racial Nation? Not yet.

Buried in a story about a challenge to the Voting Rights Act filed by a conservative activist lawyer and former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas was this interesting tidbit: Ten percent of white Alabamians voted for Obama,...

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What? Torture Doesn’t Work?

At this point the only thin shred of an argument to which torture apologists have been clinging is its reputed effectiveness in saving us (i.e., the US of A) from deadly terrorist attacks that no other method of interrogation...

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