But Hurricane Jindal is going to be worse: THE debate over religious liberty in America presents conservatives and business leaders with a crucial choice. In Indiana and Arkansas, large corporations recently joined left-wing activists to bully elected officials into backing away from strong protections for religious liberty. It was disappointing to see conservative leaders so …
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A Depressing Cover Story
Here in Cincy the talk over the weekend involved a “victory over those evil Mooslem types” up in John Boehner country as students at a high school up in Mason were bullied out of an exercise in religious tolerance, mainly because the religion in question wasn’t Christianity. A group of Muslim students organized a one …
Verdict in the Boston Bombing Trial
Looks like the jury didn’t buy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team’s attempt to blame everything on brother Speed Bump. UPDATE: He was convicted on all 30 counts.
It’s Not Discrimination If You Call It Something Else
And Indiana’s GOP Gov. Mike Pence has just discovered that no media disaster recovery plan survives contact with the Tea Party. WALKERTON, Ind. –A small-town pizza shop is saying they agree with Governor Pence and the signing of the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The O’Connor family, who owns Memories Pizza, says they have a …
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Straight Talk
Gov. Dannel Malloy from Connecticut cuts to the chase: Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) on Tuesday described Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) as a “bigot” and said that politicians have a responsibility to speak out against Indiana’s divisive religious freedom law. Pence is “not a stupid man, but he’s done stupid things,” Malloy said during …
It’s Always Important To Remember Who the Real Victims Are
The sheer capacity of people to self-delude is quite astonishing, although not so much as it is amazing how bible thumpers are always turning themselves in to martyrs when they get caught doing something evil: Reaction to Indiana’s new “religious freedom” law has come fast, hard and loud. And the public firestorm has been fueled …
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Feewings, Nothing More than Feewings… (Open Thread)
I’ve only been to Indiana once, and that was an accident. I was on my way to the Kentucky Derby with a friend, riding shotgun and playing navigator as we drove from Nashville to Louisville. I dozed off not far from our destination and awoke to my friend’s cursing a missed exit as we prepared …
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