Fun Fact About Taxes

The top income tax bracket in the United States is currently 35%. Make a guess over how many years, within the past 80 years, the tax rate was below 35% and how many years it was more than twice the current rate. Answers: Since 1932, there were only 5 years when the top income tax [...]

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Honest Atheists? Unpossible!

Remember the Japanese earthquake and U.S. poll that was conducted shortly afterward asking if natural disasters are a punishment from God? (Some even claiming that the earthquake/tsunami were a punishment for Japan’s atheism.) The poll released today by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service, was conducted a week after a March [...]

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Tea Party is Less Popular Than Atheists

According to a new poll, the Tea Party has lower approval ratings than Atheists. It’s well known that an atheist can’t win the US presidency, so I guess this means that the tea-party candidates might as well throw in the towel right now. One of their more surprising findings, Campbell concedes, (and one drawing national [...]

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Libertarian Smackdown

I rather like this article. My only thought was that he could give more examples about ways that Libertarianism fails, because it fails in a lot of different domains. http://www.raikoth.net/libertarian.html

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Atheists Pick and Choose Their Morals

I think the quote is even more biting considering that this is the same Pope who helped shuffle priests around when they were caught abusing children: Hans Küng, a former friend of Ratzinger’s, says: ‘No one in the whole of the Catholic Church knew as much about abuse cases as this Pope.’ … In Germany [...]

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O’Donnell and Bachmann on Gay Issues

Christine O’Donnell: Don’t ask me about my views about homosexuality, I’m not running for office. (Even though she wrote about it in her book, and promotion of her book is the reason she’s doing this interview.) Michelle Bachmann: Don’t ask me about my views about homosexuality, I’m running for president. So, which is it Tea [...]

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RNC Chairman Playing Dodgeball with Poll Numbers

In politics, they say, “Don’t answer the question that was asked. Answer the question you wish they asked.”

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Creationist Museum gets more tax breaks

Lovely. In May, ThinkProgress reported that Kentucky approved a $43 million tax break for Ark Encounter, a Bible-themed amusement park that religious organizations are building outside Williamstown. Now the state is giving the creationist project another kickback in the form of a 75 percent property tax discount over the next 30 years. (Source) Website of [...]

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Evangelicals And Adam And Eve

NPR: Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve Let’s go back to the beginning — all the way to Adam and Eve, and to the question: Did they exist, and did all of humanity descend from that single pair? … Polls by Gallup and the Pew Research Center find that four out of 10 [...]

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Rick Perry’s Revival

Rick Perry, the current governor of Texas, is going to run for president in 2012. No doubt, a lot of evangelicals will flock to him because he seems to be a “man of God” and “we need men of God in the White House”. (See also: FOX News “Five Reasons Why I Believe Texas Governor [...]

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