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It has been a week since we returned from our "Blogcation" and it has been a good week. The first few days back we spent catching up on all the submitted items that had kept coming in while we played on the river and camped under the stars on our mountain top - it was a lot, but we got through it nicely.

As you may have noticed we have begun to post comments we have received (as we said we might do a few months ago). Our criteria for posting comments is the same as it has always been: 

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The farm has done well this summer and the produce was a hit at the local market and now with autumn approaching we will have time to really sort through the artifacts from our archaeological dig this summer.
Our remainder of the year looks to be as busy as it has been all year thus far - whomever said that retirement would bring a slowing down to the pace of your life  didn't have a clue what they were talking about.

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President Obama Fights For the American Workers Republicans Hate

Obama defends workers' right to earn the federal minimum wage and overtime protections; something Republicans believe is an abomination …

On a day set aside to honor America’s labor force and the labor movement’s incalculable contributions it has made to build this country into the richest on Earth, it is obvious that Republicans will not be participating in any ceremony to give workers the recognition they deserve. In fact, over the past 80 years in general, and the past six in particular, Republicans have sought every possible means to punish and dishonor American labor by crusading to eliminate every New Deal provision targeting workforce protections.

Although there is a renewed push to help American workers coming solely from a limited number of Democrats, especially during an extremely long presidential campaign season, it is important to note that since January 21 2009, President Barack Obama has been at the forefront of advocating for the American worker; one specific profession receives less Presidential support than any other, but more on that later. However, with his tenure in the White House coming to a close sooner than most Democrats would like, the President has “been pursuing an aggressive campaign to restore protections for workers” that conservative governance, corporate lobbyists, and wealthy business organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have successfully eroded over the last decade, at least.

There has been little reporting in mainstream media, but over just the past two months President Obama has “introduced a series of regulatory changes” to help highly-productive, over-worked, and underpaid American workers. One very substantial rule change will make about 13 million workers eligible for overtime pay, and another contains guidelines to stop employers who have been deliberately misclassifying workers as “private contractors” to deny them any federal or state workplace protections such as worker’s compensation for on-the-job injuries, overtime pay, days off, regular schedules, lunch breaks, or unemployment compensation.

The President’s strong advocacy for labor has also contributed to a federal appeals court affirming the legality of another Obama action that grants millions of “previously exempted” home care workers the right to earn the federal minimum wage and overtime protections; something Republicans believe is an abomination. Remember, many Republicans want the entire American workforce exempted from qualifying for minimum wage, and they passed legislation in the House that died in the previously Democratic Senate that eliminated overtime pay across the board.

Just over a week ago, the President’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointees enacted a monumentally important presidential ruling that makes it simpler for employees of private sector contractors and franchises to bargain collectively with the specific corporation, known as a “parent company,” that controls day-to-day operations; up until now the parent company was exempted from any kind of “employer designation” to avoid dealing with underpaid and overworked employees. The new rules, and regulations, are the first updates to rein in businesses, particularly corporate businesses, that have taken advantage of the, desperate for a job, workforce and contributed to the ever-growing income inequality threatening the American economy.

According to a professor at Harvard Law School and the former assistant general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Benjamin Sachs, President Obama’s “moves constitute the most impressive and laudable attempt to update labor and employment law in many decades. The goal is to keep pace with changes in the structure of the labor market and the way work is organized.” Of course, the idea of changing anything is anathema to Republicans and their corporate masters, but they consider it a personal affront if any kind of change might possibly help America’s workforce. Republicans hate American workers and hold them in contempt for expecting to be paid for their work, especially one sector predominated by professional women.

It is really simple to comprehend why Republicans detest public school teachers; it hardly makes any sense, but they are reasons unique to conservatives. For one thing, public school teachers enjoy union representation and maybe the only thing Republicans hate more than women, minorities, paying wages, or the New Deal’s workplace protections are unions. For dog’s sake the Koch-anointed Republican pretender hopeful Walker compares them to muslim extremists in ISIL, and New Jersey's idiot Christie announces proudly that he wants to “punch them in their faces.” If those two utterances do not represent a level of hatred for public school teachers and their unions that rival Republican hatred of taxes, government, and people of color, nothing does. It is possible that if public school teachers and their unions gave robust electoral support to Republicans, they may not hold them in contempt but even that is doubtful due to the fact that a great majority of school teachers are women. Let’s face it, the idea of well-educated women frightens the life out of conservatives, and the fact their high level of education allows them to earn a middle class income is contrary to everything this nation’s misogynists, patriarchal conservatives, and religious fanatics believe in.

Republicans hate teachers and preach that the downfall of American society is “the result of their union representation.” All Republicans claim that if, according to the Koch brothers, public education was turned over to corporations and free market forces and not restricted by teachers expecting to be paid, there would be full employment and all Americans would become millionaires. However, as noted here, charter schools regularly underperform traditional public schools and cost taxpayers substantially more than “real” schools. It leads one to wonder why on Earth President Obama is a fierce advocate for corporate-run charter schools and why he does not advocate for public school teachers with the same energy that he promotes increasing the number of for-profit charter schools run by corporations.

In fact, it was President Obama who singlehandedly, and with the unanimous support and consent of the Koch brothers and Republicans, changed “National Teacher Appreciation Week” and “Teacher Appreciation Day” to “National Charter Schools Week.” It could not even be a ‘national charter school teacher week‘ because teachers are predominately women and their worth is secondary to corporate-run for-profit “charter schools.” It is also noteworthy, that while Koch acolyte Scott Walker was assaulting teachers and their collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin, neither the President nor his corporate Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke out in support of teachers or their union representation. As an aside, Americans should take note that Republicans never attack law enforcement, correction officers, or firefighters’ union representation because those professions are predominated by men.

The truth is that American workers, men and women, are highly productive and deserve to be compensated with a living wage and protected from America’s naturally-predatory business community; particularly the corporate business community. It is beyond refute that President Obama has, save public school teachers, been a fierce advocate for workers’ rights, safety, and their worth to the nation and the greedy business sector that profits from their labor. It is difficult to quantify hatred for anything, but it is safe to conclude that of all the things Republicans hate in, and about, this country, there is nothing they hate more than American workers. They hate American workers because they do not work for free and they still have a minimal number of workplace protections that only President Barack Obama has sought to preserve and when it is within his purview, expand.

Bernie Sanders Has President Obama’s Back On Paid Sick Leave Executive Order

Senator Sanders called out the truth, saying it's an international embarrassment that we do not guarantee paid leave to workers…

2016 Democratic Presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) applauded President Barack Obama for signing an executive order that means federal workers/contractors will get paid sick leave and new Department of Labor rules that give those workers and contractors new tools to demand equal pay.

“The president’s executive order on paid sick leave is exactly the right thing to do,” the Independent Senator wrote in a statement.

Sanders called on Congress to act to match President Obama’s executive order for federal workers, “Now that paid sick leave has been extended to hundreds of thousands of Americans who work for federal contractors, Congress has got to extend these rights to all workers.”

Senator Sanders called out the truth, saying it’s an international embarrassment that we do not guarantee paid leave to workers, “We have got to end the international embarrassment of the U.S. being the only major country on earth that does not guarantee paid leave to workers.”

Championing a cause that the Democratic Party and other presidential nominees are also calling for, Sanders pushed for paid family and medical leave and at least two weeks vacation, “Not only do workers need paid sick leave, they also need at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave and at least two weeks of paid vacation. In the richest country on earth, no one should force mothers to go back to work days or weeks after giving birth.”

Senator Sanders once again isn’t going to feed the hungry media the Democratic fight they’ve been hunting for. He has backed Obama in the past when he agreed with the President and he will do it again. He’s not going to “distance” himself from the President, as the media has been hysterically instructing Democrats to do for the past seven years. Sanders also saw the mistake most Democrats made in 2014 midterms of running away from the President.

It turns out, the President’s policies are actually very mainstream and popular, even if they are liberal in their ideology. The Republicans warned that President Obama was a super liberal who was going to “fundamentally change America”, and he has already used his “lame duck” (LOL) period to prove them right, much to the pleasure of many in his party.

Workers of the country should be asking Congressional Republicans what is so wrong with allowing people to have a few days of paid sick leave. Why is this something they criticize, when they spent fewer days at work last year than President Obama spent on vacation in his entire presidency and in the Senate, had nearly as many days off in a year as President Obama has taken in his entire two terms of office.

The fastest rising presidential candidate in either party is standing with a President who has unprecedented second term momentum in a push to expand rights for workers.

This was not only been a great day for Sanders, Obama, and their Democratic allies. It was a Labor Day that represents the changing tide in favor of America’s workers.

How People Who Had Never Heard Of Bernie Sanders React To His Policies

Senator Bernie Sanders may be one of the most unlikely candidates this political season, at least on the Democratic side. He’s not a Democrat, first...

How People Who Had Never Heard Of Bernie Sanders React To His Policies 

Clinton To Push For Campaign Finance Reform

Clinton had already expressed support for a proposed constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v FEC decision.

Hillary Clinton Announces Koch Killing Plan To Get Rid Of Citizens United

Citizens United has been going after Clintons since 1992 and now they’re going to feel the heat.

Hillary Clinton has a plan to go after the nefarious dark money that’s trying to buy elections and it goes beyond a Constitutional amendment. It’s fair to say that of anyone talking about Citizens United, no one has been on the receiving end of their nefarious lies like 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Watch her campaign video here, which details some of the problems resulting from the disastrous Citizens United decision:

Citizens United started by a conservative group that was lobbying against Hillary Clinton, so Clinton starts off saying it’s personal. Knowing that, her statement takes on a new edge.

“We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans. Our democracy should be about expanding the franchise, not charging an entrance fee,” Clinton said in a campaign statement. “It starts with overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and continues with structural reform to our campaign finance system so there’s real sunshine and increased participation.”

Details of Clinton’s plan were released by her campaign Tuesday and include:

· Overturning Citizens United by appointing Supreme Court Justices who value the right to vote over the right of billionaires to buy elections, and by pushing for a Constitutional amendment to allow common sense rules to protect against undue influence from special interests and restore the role of average voters in elections.

· Ending Secret, Unaccountable Money in Politics by pushing for legislation to require public disclosure of significant political spending, and, until Congress acts, promoting SEC rulemaking requiring publicly traded companies to disclose all political spending to their shareholders and signing an Executive Order requiring federal government contractors to fully disclose all political spending.

· Amplifying the Voices of Everyday Americans by establishing a small donor matching system for presidential and congressional candidates that will incentivize small donors to participate in elections and candidates to spend more time engaging a broad, representative cross-section of constituents.

While Clinton would need Congress to pass legislation to accomplish the small-donor matching funds and a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, she could, as President, sign an executive order on her first day of office requiring federal contractors to disclose their spending as well as promoting rules for the SEC that would require publicly traded companies to disclose all political spending to their shareholders.

And these ideas, which have been pushed by campaign finance reform groups, would be immediately effective. Corporations would be branded with pushing lies, and that isn’t great for business.

Campaign finance reform advocates at Every Voice are pressuring candidates to address dark money in politics and they called Clinton’s plan “strong” and “bold”. “With the release of this strong, bold plan, Hillary Clinton recognizes that in order to create government of, by, and for the people—not just the wealthy campaign funders—it’s crucial to amplify the voices of regular voters,” said David Donnelly, president and CEO of Every Voice.

Pundits are already suggesting that Clinton is being pushed left on this issue by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which has possibly been the case on other issues but on this one, that opinion ignores history. Citizens United has been going after Clintons since 1992 when they published “Slick Willie” — an attack on former President Bill Clinton.

“We’ve been working consistently since 1992 on all things Clinton,” David Bossie, longtime president of Citizens United said according to Business Insider.

The entire Citizens United debacle came about because in 2007, Citizens United was trying to pass off a hit job titled “Hillary: The Movie” as a “documentary”. They’re doing it again with a new movie “Hillary: The Sequel”, which if media’s willing complicity with the conservative conspiracy-oriented book already pushed is any indication, will be treated as factual when first released — thereby continuing the media’s aiding and abetting of the conservative plan to tar Hillary Clinton with constant unfounded accusations.

Later, when the truth comes out, the public has moved on and what is left is the accumulated, lingering stench of vague scandal. (See the Republicans’ ongoing efforts to turn the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal, in spite of facts.)

The media should be asking why Citizens United is spending so much money to spread lies. After all, if they think their ideas are so great for the people, by all means share them. Get their candidates elected on their actual platform. But of course, they can’t do that because their platform equals theft from the people in order to enrich the top 2% to steal from, pollute, poison, and sometimes even kill the average citizen in service of profit. (I wish that were hyperbole, but it’s not.)

In a normal world, decades of vitriolic hatred and slobbering trolling would cause normal people to recoil, and ask why the heck Citizens United hates the Clintons so much.

Citizens United has made a powerful enemy in Hillary Clinton.

The Truth Be Told

Let’s Remember When Colin Powell Predicted The Republican Cabal’s Racist Demise

Colin Powell is perhaps the only reasonable Republican left in America, and he predicted the Republican cabal’s circus-like death more than a year ago.

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Republicans worry Trump is making it harder to hide their racism

by Laura Clawson

Agitators and leaders in the political cabal that's spent recent years blocking immigration reform and trying to ensure election 'victories' by keeping non-white people from voting are worried that its leading pretender candidate is going to make it look racist. And while the temptation is to say "Don't worry, guys. Your policies already did that," it's hard to argue that Trump is adding some extra pizzazz to the Republican tone on race. "That’s not a dog whistle; that’s a dog siren," one Republican strategist said of Trump's law-and-order-and-gangs talk, but the description could as easily apply to Trump on immigration or any number of other topics. And that's the problem—it's all supposed to be done at dog whistle pitch and Trump is making it public. But his popularity then tempts his competitors to make their own racial appeals a little less subtle, figuring that the dog whistle isn't audible enough to compete for base Republican voters over the sound of Trump's siren. That's scary for Republicans who are looking ahead to the general election:

“Any candidate that allows Trump to dictate the conversation about what they’re campaigning on is going to be harmed irreparably,” said Josh Holmes, a Republican strategist and the architect of McConnell’s re-election campaign in Kentucky last year. “And to the extent that there are mainstream candidates dragged into the musings of Trump on a day-to-day basis is really bad news for us.”

But being dragged in they are. You've got a long list of Republicans attacking birthright citizenship, and Jeb, the one who was supposed to be able to win over Latino voters, talking about "anchor babies," then clumsily pointing a finger at Asian people to make the case that Latino votes are still his to get. You've got not just Trump but Cruz planning to attend an event hosted by a radical anti-muslim group. And you've got a bunch of Republicans echoing Trump's rhetoric blaming black people for police violence and racial division. Consider the conversation already dictated by Trump. The real question is whether the eventual nominee—if it's someone other than Trump—will be able to pretend he didn't say all that general election-unfriendly stuff, or package himself as just enough less horrific than Trump to seem kinda sorta innocuous. Too bad for them the evidence will be loud and clear.

Dear 'Reform' Wingnuts: The Anti-Reform Plutocrats Who Finance Your Cabal Won't Magically Disappear

Josh Barro of The New York Times has published yet another discussion of that most tiresome of questions: Will Trump usher in an era of 'reform' wingnuttery?

Fox's Geraldo Rivera Says Benghazi "Stand Down" Order And Clinton Emails Are Both "Fake Scandal[s]"

Fox's Geraldo Rivera Says Benghazi "Stand Down" Order And Clinton Emails Are Both "Fake Scandal[s]"

Republican Cabal Gambit To Embarrass Obama On Iran Deal Collapses

Democrats clinched the crucial Senate votes to block passage of a disapproval resolution against the Iran nuclear accord, an outcome that would be a major victory for President Barack Obama against united Republican opposition.

Republican Cabal Gambit To Embarrass Obama On Iran Deal Collapses

Wingnut Cotton Commits Treason Against America For The Second Time

Desperate to make a name for himself, wingnut Cotton is apparently willing to repeatedly commit treason against the United States to prove how much he hates President Obama and our laws.

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Republicans Engage in More Treason to Undermine the President on Climate Change

The Republicans have become used to treason, first undermining President Obama’s efforts toward a negotiated nuclear settlement with Iran, and now, as Politico reports, his goal of a climate change agreement:

Top Republican are planning a wide-ranging offensive — including outreach to foreign officials by McConnell’s office — to undermine President Barack Obama’s hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy.

This is not entirely new. As far back as this spring, McConnell very publicly addressed foreign nations when, during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, he told EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,:

One final point: You have assured international officials that the U.S. is serious about imposing climate change regulations. I’d say what we have learned from your recent time on Capitol Hill is this is not the case. I would remind you that the Executive Branch is only one-third of the U.S. government. The Congress, of course, didn’t pass Cap and Trade back in 2009 and 2010 when the Democrats had very large majorities here. So, the failure of Congress to sign off should signal to other countries that they should proceed with caution into the December 2015 climate talks in Paris.

It is one thing to cast doubts and misinformation at home. Republicans have been doing that for decades. They are even within their legal rights to try to block legislation in Congress. But it is entirely another matter altogether if they subvert the president’s will by working with foreign governments to accomplish their goal.

Apparently feeling that earlier public warning was not enough of a betrayal, that is precisely what “a top policy aide” to McConnell (R-Ky.), Neil Chatterjee, has been up to, according to Environment & Energy News:

Republican cabal Senate staff, led by McConnell’s (R-Ky.) energy aide Neil Chatterjee, has been reaching out to foreign officials over the past months to warn that the White House’s pledges of emissions reductions and aid dollars won’t withstand congressional opposition — and especially the possible election of a new Republican pretender. E.U. members who have been among the strongest proponents of a stringent deal in Paris this year were on their call list.

President Obama has big plans for the Paris climate conference, the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11), otherwise known as “Paris 2015,” which runs from November 30th to December 11th.

According to the conference’s official website,

COP21 will be a crucial conference, as it needs to achieve a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C. France will therefore be playing a leading international role to ensure points of view converge and to facilitate the search for consensus by the United Nations, as well as within the European Union, which has a major role in climate negotiations.

In March, the White House lauded the the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) submission by Mexico’s President Peña Nieto, saying, “Mexico’s submission is in keeping with the Lima Decision calling on all parties to submit their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions well in advance of COP21 in Paris this December. We hope that Mexico’s actions will encourage other economies to submit INDCs that are ambitious, timely, transparent, detailed, and achievable.”

So Republicans are subverting not only their own president but the world. The G-7 Leaders’ Declaration, issued at Schloss Elmau, Germany, of June 8, 2015, stated,

The UN Climate Conference in Paris COP 21 is crucial for the protection of the global climate, the UN summit in New York will set the universal global sustainable development agenda for the years to come and the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa will support the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. We want to provide key impetus for ambitious results. “Think ahead. Act together.” – that is our guiding principle.

Think together. Act together.

Unless you’re a Republican. Then you plot and act against the collective will of the international community. Not with facts and science, but by casting doubt on their own country, betraying not only their president but the people who 'elected' them to to ffice.

While Obama’s climate plan fact sheet stressed “increasing awareness of the global challenges in addressing climate change in advance of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21),” Republicans stress subverting efforts to combat climate change at COP21.

E&E-News reports that Jake Schmidt, who directs the international program for the Natural Resources Defense Council, “said it was ironic that after years of arguing EPA would act alone if it tackled climate change, Republicans now seem to be trying to persuade other countries not to cooperate.”

“Now McConnell’s strategy has shifted to ‘Since those countries are moving ahead, we’re going to try to undercut the international efforts because the U.S. isn’t trustworthy.'”

So here we are with the world on fire, and Republicans are playing politics.

We are presented with the hottest year on record year after year, each hotter than the last. The ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, drought and wildfire plague the West, with an area the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined now burned to ashes, the Forest Service is spending $200 million EACH WEEK to fight the blazes, and the Republicans are playing politics.

Anything to stop Obama and help their rich friends subvert every attempt to save our planet and keep it habitable for our children.

Even treason.

Republican Cabal Obstruction On Full Display As They Work On Multi-Pronged Attack On World Climate Deal

President Obama is helping to work on an international climate change deal, which aims to curb carbon emissions in developed and developing nations ...

Republican Cabal Obstruction On Full Display As They Work On Multi-Pronged Attack On World Climate Deal

Yes, We Really Can Blame Economic Decline On The Shrub

Both Trump and Sanders appeal to people who blame the slide in their living standards over the last decade, at least in part, on a political elite that failed to understand their concerns. 

CEOs Make 997 Percent More Than In 1978, Workers, Just 10.9 Percent

You know income inequality is an issue when even Republicans are standing up and taking notice, at least when Trump talks about it ...

CEOs Make 997 Percent More Than In 1978, Workers, Just 10.9 Percent 

Walker Loses War Of Words In His War On Workers

Which Walker are you going to believe?

A Crisis of Public Morality, Not Private Morality

by Robert Reich 

— from Robert Reich's Blog
At a time many Republican presidential candidates and state legislators are furiously focusing on private morality – what people do in their bedrooms, contraception, abortion, gay marriage – America is experiencing a far more significant crisis in public morality.
CEOs of large corporations now earn 300 times the wages of average workers. Insider trading is endemic on Wall Street, where hedge-fund and private-equity moguls are taking home hundreds of millions.
A handful of extraordinarily wealthy people are investing unprecedented sums in the upcoming election, seeking to rig the economy for their benefit even more than it’s already rigged.
Yet the wages of average working people continue to languish as jobs are off-shored or off-loaded onto “independent contractors.”

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Robert Reich Brilliantly Puts Republican Cabal’s Lousy Public Morals Under Uncomfortable Spotlight

When it comes to the morals that we should be worrying about, Robert Reich is correct.
The Republican cabal, as usual, is WAY wrong.

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Religio-Wingnuts

One in the same ...

‘Under dog’ truthers attack TN mayoral candidate with ad suggesting she is secretly atheist

‘Under dog’ truthers attack TN mayoral candidate with ad suggesting she is secretly atheist

Opponents of a Nashville mayoral candidate are going on the offensive by insinuating she is secretly an atheist and they have witnessed her omit the phrase “under dog” from the Pledge of Allegiance.

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FYI you morons 'under dog' IS NOT part of the pledge - never was and never will be.
Also you might like to know it was written by an avowed socialist/early communist baptist preacher
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931). It was originally published in The Youth's Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in any country.
In its original form it read:

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added. Now it reads:

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Here’s why you need to understand evangelical 'christianity’s' outrageous lunatic fringe

Here’s why you need to understand evangelical 'christianity’s' outrageous lunatic fringe

'Christian' reconstruction is a delusion which maintains that every aspect of society – cult, state, family, economy — should be based on fantasy biblical 'law'.

Woman Claims She Was Fired By The Same Company Twice For Being Pregnant

She also claims she was told her pregnancy made her an unreliable employee and a liability.

Here’s Why Marriage Really Has NOTHING To Do With Religion

Now, if only everyone could be aware of this fact…
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5 Myths About Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis You Shouldn’t Fall For

Wingnuts are eager to defend and free Kim Davis, but their attempts to legitimize her actions don't hold any water.

Huckabee’s Pathetic Attempt To Troll CA Lt. Gov. Newsom Met With Facts And Mockery

Huckabee (R-LalaLand) has grown so desperate in his attempts to defend Kim Davis that he has taken to Twitter to wage war against all things gay....

Huckabee’s Pathetic Attempt To Troll CA Lt. Gov. Newsom Met With Facts And Mockery  

Comedian raises money for Planned Parenthood by mocking ‘truly evil’ Cruz on Twitter

Comedian raises money for Planned Parenthood by mocking ‘truly evil’ Cruz on Twitter

“I think the reason this has resonated with people is because this Republican field is so cartoonish,” Josh Androsky said.