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Alberta Tar Sands Boycott: Feel Good Nonsense

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Alberta Tar Sands Boycott: Feel Good Nonsense

U.S. retailers are being pressured by the international environmental group ForestEthics to boycott fuel produced by the Alberta Tar Sands, due to the severe consequences to the environment. I was born and raised in Alberta, and (full disclosure) my family works in the oilpatch, where they have been developing the tar sands for over 25 [...]

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Glenn Beck: Master Politician or Master Baiter

Don’t be fooled by the emotional melodrama and rodeo-clown antics of Glenn Beck. He’s a political force as well as a controversial agent of divisiveness. He may seem like a jester that many find difficult to take seriously, but he’s proven himself a master politician as well as a master baiter.

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“Religious Harmony” in India vs. China – Part 2

The Dalai Lama’s suggestion that China should learn religious harmony from India says more about his own political status than about the realities on the ground.

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Yep. This pretty much sums it up.

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Yep. This pretty much sums it up.

(via Daily What)

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He Had A Dream, And Beck Was The Nightmare

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He Had A Dream, And Beck Was The Nightmare

Dr. King was a great man. His “I Have a Dream” speech is the defining moment of the civil rights movement, and it is a testament to the power of his words that a black person could become the president not forty years later. On this day also,the suffragette movement  started by (non-religious) civil rights [...]

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Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally online

Unable to attend Beck’s pro-theocracy events tonight and tomorrow? You have options. FREE options.

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Is Libertarianism Dead?

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Is Libertarianism Dead?

I hate to admit it, but The Atlantic’s Clive Crook makes a convincing case, responding to Reason Magazine’s symposium on Where Do Libertarians Belong. Libertarians disagree with progressives about markets and with conservatives about “values”, and that is really that. To the extent that they (we) serve any purpose at all, it is to challenge [...]

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Beck Rallies In Washington Undercut Church-State Separation, Watchdog Group Charges

Fox News Channel personality Glenn Beck’s rallies in Washington, D.C., are an attack on religious liberty and our nation’s rich religious diversity, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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The Center for Inquiry (CFI) and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) sent a joint letter on August 26 to the United States Department of Defense expressing serious concern over the Army’s apparent punishment of soldiers at Fort Eustis, Virginia for declining to attend a recent Christian rock concert.

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The Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names

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The Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names

click to embiggen (via Pop Chart Lab)

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