War

Christians flee Middle East to survive.

"They’re being driven away not only by Islamic State, but by governments the U.S. counts as allies in the fight against extremism."

I just wrote that article.

Politics

Praise for Christianity for the civilization it produced.

Trump's outsourcing of policy to military generals makes the US a military junta.

Institutionalized corruption.

Environment

Catholic Priests to preach global warming propaganda. Since the global warming fraud is a religion, this is a match made in heaven. Talk about strange bedfellows.

Global warming frauds fear retaliation from Trump. Fire them all.

Global warming frauds alarmed over Trump's skeptical EPA transition chief.

Frauds alarmed over Trump's skeptic EPA pick.

Misc

I made the case humans were hired-wired for religion by evolution decades ago.

Tax and Spend

Government controls the Catholic Church through funding.

War on Drugs

More on the DEA as a tool for empire.

IRS grants marijuana church tax-exempt status.

War on Drugs

Church of Cannabis starts in Indiana. This won't end well.

Politics

Qualifying freedom with religion or anything else is silly.

Bill Clinton takes Hillary donors on an African safari.

Not getting traction with their plan to hike the minimum wage to $10, Obama and Democrats change their proposal to $12. Just crazy.

Britain's rulers fear a Scottish Nationalist Party tsunami.

Saudis pay to keep their involvement in 9/11, documented in the 9/11 report, classified and secret.

Politics

Bipartisan senate group blocks meaningless NSA non-reform.

"Although the domestic phone data dragnet has not thwarted any terrorist attacks, in the lead up to the vote critics savaged the bill as a gift to terrorists. "

They get paid to say that. More.

"What could be more American these days than the U.S. Senate voting AGAINST something called the “USA Freedom Act”?"

Too funny.

Good for pastors who want to separate religious and civil marriage, but if this is a response to being forced to perform gay marriages, it will be slammed. It will also hurt churches as many will chose civil marriage instead of both.

The difference between petty thieves and great thieves.

"In his City of God, St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. Alexander demands of him, “How dare you molest the seas?” The pirate replied, “How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a thief. You, with a great fleet, molest the whole world and are called an emperor.” St. Augustine called this answer “elegant and excellent.” "

Don't forget the scale of killing.

Blacks suffer from a legacy of liberal policies.

Politics

Republicans continue to slam Obamacare for specific policies they supported before Obamacare.

"Troy’s column does not mention that the Cadillac tax — or, usually, even more stringent versions of it — have been a mainstay of Republican health-care plans as well. As a presidential candidate in 2008, John McCain proposed not merely to cap the employer health-care deduction but to eliminate it entirely. (Obama attacked his plan as a tax hike.)
Troy’s op-ed also fails to mention that he himself used to oppose the tax break for employer-sponsored health insurance. In a 2007 speech, he explained that Bush proposed to cap the health-insurance tax deduction to exclude the more expensive plans:"

Pure politics.

Obama is lying about how important Gruber was to Obamacare and how well he knew him.

"President Obama on Sunday called Jonathan Gruber “some adviser who never worked on our staff.” Obama told Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry that he had “just heard about” the multiple times Gruber was caught on camera bragging about helping the White House exploit “the stupidity of the American voter” to pass the health law. But that sure doesn’t gibe with new details about the time when Obama summoned Gruber to the Oval Office for an emergency meeting with a handful of top advisers to salvage passage of ObamaCare amid a 2009 breakdown in the Democrat-controlled Congress. Given the president’s hugely crummy reputation for being forthcoming about his signature law, it seems that blowing off questions about what appears to be evidence of an intentional lie in the crafting of the law would be a bad idea."

He's a pathological liar. I was going to call him a sociopathic liar, and now Rush Limbaugh did that. I think that more accurate. Clinton was a pathological liar. He'd lie about everything whether it was in his interest or not. Obama lies to benefit himself, and he doesn't care if the lies are obvious on their face.

Obama and insurance companies are partners in crime.

"But since the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, the relationship between the Obama administration and insurers has evolved into a powerful, mutually beneficial partnership that has been a boon to the nation’s largest private health plans and led to a profitable surge in their Medicaid enrollment."

What a surprise.

Female bishops approved for Church of England.

Praise for Lao-tzu, the father of Taoism, as the first libertarian intellectual.

"Just as there will always be those who will stop at nothing in seeking to control others, the great majority of people will always respond like Pavlov’s dogs to the empty promise of greater security, in trade for diminished freedom. Even a country that begins with a people determined to control their own lives and create their own destiny will, over generations, succumb to the empty promises. The deterioration may take one hundred years, two hundred years, or even longer, but historically, every culture eventually gives way, bit by bit, to the empty promises and becomes completely dominated. In the end, each country collapses in economic ruin—the people having lost the desire to produce, as the leaders have bled them dry."

So far.

"This being the case, anyone who is inspired to believe in the libertarian principle has two choices if he lives in a country that is in the final, most oppressive stages: he can either remain there, swimming against an overwhelming tide, or he can vote with his feet. He can seek out other locations—those that are in the early stages of development, where the residents think as he does, where he is not a threat to “the system” but, by being a libertarian, is actually swimming with the tide."

Good strategy.

Media

Jedi-ism has become a serious religion.

Health Care

Another business doesn't want to pay for contraception. Can businesses owned by Christian Scientists opt out of paying for any health care on religious grounds?

School Nutrition Association turns on Michelle Obama's poor school food mandates.

Health Care

Facebook exec tries to minimize scandal from unethical psychological experiment on its users.

Birth control pills make women seek more feminine men. This is probably another factor in the emasculation of men.

Teen mom reality shows produced reduction in teen pregnancy rate.

Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare contraception mandate for Christian college.

Perspective on the Hobby Lobby decision.

"Having found a way to affirm the constitutionality of the unconstitutional Obamacare in the first place, a scurrilous SCOTUS, a branch in a tripartite tyranny, agreed to allow Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. (arts and crafts), and Mardel (Christian books) a minuscule degree of freedom in the use of their property. The individuals who own and control these businesses had objected to paying for what they consider abortifacients. Instead of being compelled to cover 20 FDA-approved methods of contraception favored by their employees, the firms will be permitted to pay for only 16."

Nice.

If this story about VA employees being switched to Obamacare enrollment is true, Obama might get impeached.

Health Care

In a rare victory for property rights, the Supreme Court ruled Hobby Lobby, because it is privately held, didn't have to meet Obamacare's contraception mandate for religious reasons.

The contraception mandate was really access to morning-after, i.e. abortion,  drugs.

Police State

NSA admits searching data of Americans without warrant, but claims this is legal because of a loop-hole. More.

Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists.

Freedom of Speech

British porn filter blocks TorrentFreak which provides news about copyright issues.

Freedom of Religion

Satanists propose monument on government property next to Ten Commandments. This is a powerful indictment of the idea of the state. The idea that property belongs to all is absurd and leads to these absurd situations. And unfortunately, because the state is an evil institution that funds itself through institutionalized theft and protects itself through institutionalized coercion, a satanic monument is more fitting than the Ten Commandments.

Misc

Atheist mega-churches are a reminder than atheism is a religion too.

Health Care

Obama conscripts local libraries to drag people onto Obamacare.

Religious groups still unhappy about providing birth control in violation of their religious beliefs. I don't think this article explains it very well, otherwise, religious groups would have no complaint. According to this article, insurers for religious groups will still provide birth control, but it will be charged back to the government.

"The lawsuits are split almost evenly between nonprofit plaintiffs — including several Roman Catholic dioceses — and for-profit businesses who say the rules go against their religious beliefs. For-profit businesses are not included in the accommodation released Friday and were not eligible for the time extension."

Maybe only for-profit businesses are unhappy, and of course Obama hates profit.

Socialism

The USPS discriminates against atheist packages.