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Author Archives: Jacob
COUNTER RELIGIOUS RIGHT CAMPAIGN AGAINST FFRF
The Freedom From Religion Foundation needs your help to support our court victory last week, when a three-judge panel of the Colorado State Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in our favor that gubernatorial proclamations of an annual Colorado Day of … Continue reading
Productivity Doubled — And The Middle Class Got Screwed. What Went Wrong?
I would also like to add that I believe in the past 10 years there has been a new “wedge”: demanding employees work every waking moment in order to boost productivity without appropriate compensation. 40 hours work-week? You’re dreaming. Almost … Continue reading
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Breaking: Obama Endorses Same Sex-Marriage
Today, less than 24 hours after North Carolina’s hateful passage of the discriminatory Amendment One which bans gay marriage and curbs civil unions, President Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage in an interview with ABC. Earlier in the day, the … Continue reading
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pfSense Firewall for n00bs Like Me
I had been using SmoothWall Express (SWE) for at least 10 years and while generally happy with it, I started to get annoyed at the amount of time I had to continually spend getting the mods to work when official … Continue reading
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5 Countries That Do It Better: How Sexual Prudery Makes America a Less Healthy and Happy Place
To extreme social conservatives of the far right, the word “prude” is not an insult — it’s a badge of honor. “Prudes,” they would argue, should be upheld as exemplary role models because a sexually repressive society is also a … Continue reading
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Paul Ryan’s Healthcare Plan: Die Quickly
As a favor to struggling Americans, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., proposed a federal budget last week ravaging programs for the poor, elderly, disabled, young, veterans, jobless, students and other vulnerable people. Ryan did it, he said, because these programs, … Continue reading
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Captive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible
Let me tell you a secret about Bible believers that I know because I was one. Most of them don’t read their Bibles. If they did, they would know that the biblical model of sex and marriage has little to … Continue reading
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How Hedge Fund Vampires Use Insider Info to Extract Their Dishonest Fortunes
Ever wonder how hedge funds can make 20 percent returns during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, while your savings account grows smaller? Ever wonder how it’s possible for the top hedge fund manager in 2011 to make … Continue reading
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What’s in a Label? Why the Package Insert for Plan B is Wrong… and Why It Matters.
So why does it matter? The standard legal and medical definition of the beginning of pregnancy in the US is the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. By that definition, even if LNG EC did interfere with implantation, … Continue reading
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Robert Greenwald on the New Film ‘Koch Brothers Exposed’ — the 1% at Its Very Worst
Koch Brothers Exposed weaves together a series of short films produced over the course of the last year or so as part of an online video campaign of the same name. As principals of Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held corporation … Continue reading
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