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Catholic church's marriage expert: Gay people come from the devil

In an editorial in the Boston Pilot on Friday, Daniel Avila, a lobbyist and spokesperson for the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage of the U.S. Catholic Conference, wrote that because being gay is not genetic, it must be the work of the devil.

Wisconsin's Recall Legacy: An Epic Win Today!

Some song somewhere once claimed that you can't always get what you want. But we maybe got a little something that we needed. Today, Republican Dale Schultz broke ranks with Walker's lapdog legislature.

Occupy Wall Street: List and map of over 200 U.S. solidarity events and Facebook pages

Below, you will find an extensive list of links to local Occupy Wall Street solidarity groups in the United States and Canada.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane –Wait! It's the New World Order | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

During the 1990s, as many recall, the “black helicopter” became a symbol of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement’s unshakeable paranoia and cartoonish insistence that the choppers would soon be coming after those freedom-loving dissidents who k …

Heritage Foundation & American Enterprise Institute call teachers stupid and overpaid

The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute have put out a report purporting to show that public school teachers are overpaid. It's 23 pages of elaborate statistical justification of right-wing beliefs, all built on a foundation of right-wing assumptions.

Lawyer: Cain accuser wants to talk but is barred by agreement

One of the women who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment wants to tell her side of the story but is barred by a confidentiality agreement, her attorney in Washington said Tuesday.  

OPINION: Confederate Flag Doesn't Belong on License Plates

As a Texan, I don't agree about very much with my state's governor, Rick Perry. But when he gets something right, I like to give him credit: On Oct.

Feds tell Alabama not to screw over kids

And if you think that legal Americans will take up these jobs, they won't. Those "illegal" Latinos do the @!$%#tiest, most back-breaking work imaginable.

High School Student Hung Herself in School Bathroom

SARASOTA, Fla. - A 17-year-old female student is in critical condition after she hung herself in a Booker High School bathroom.

Now there's proof; Republican economic policies are bad for our health

Congressional Budget Office study that came out last week was  “Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007.