Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. -Aristotle

Antiabortion movement gets a new-media twist - Los Angeles Times

Consider: You are religious and object to abortions. So you go to clinics and tell lies, hoping to get the workers to stumble into your traps. You record these sessions for YouTube.

Gay Iowans Say 'I Do' - The Daily Beast

With licenses in hand, gay Iowans prepare to wed.

More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops

Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying "Don't Believe in God? You Are Not Alone," the group's 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman's living room to grapple with the fallout.

Ends don't justify the means of U.S. torture | APP.com | Asbury Park Press

"I'm trying to figure out if I have an ethical conflict," I began. "If you have to ask, you do," he said. Simple as that. In posing a question, we often reveal the answer. Apply the same construct to torture. If we have to ask, it probably is.

Why We Should Get Rid of the Vice Presidency

The framers of the Constitution got many things right. But when they got things wrong, they were seriously off. Compromising on slavery, for instance. That's a bad one. But creating the vice presidency ranks high on their list of blunders as well.

The truth about climate change is that we know the bad truth

Many people ask how sure we are about the science of climate change. The most definitive examination of the scientific evidence is to be found in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its last major report published in 2007.

Poll Who was President of the United States of America and which party was in power

When the attack of 911 occurred which resulted in the deaths of 3000 Americans . When spying on American Citizens was authorized? When warrant less wiretapping of American citizens occurred? When our President and Vice President lied and fabricated evidence to precipitate the inv …

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Money for Nothing

From the 1930s until around 1980 banking was a staid, rather boring business that paid no better, on average, than other industries, yet kept the economy's wheels turning.

Media Matters - Fox omits Republican role in Sebelius confirmation delay

Reporting that "President Obama went golfing and the Department of Health and Human Services is short a secretary, so other U.S.

Torture Is Foreplay for War

What was al Libi tortured to compel him to falsely agree with? The Bush-Cheney justifications for war....But why not stick with bribery, forgery, reliance on drunk informants, and simply pulling flabbergastingly audacious claims straight out of your ass? Why TORTURE people in ord …

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