Making Progress: The Decline of Federal Funding for Abstinence-Only Education
Kids, despite their inexperience, are not dumb. In fact, their ability to comprehend vast quantities of new information continually astounds their parents and teachers. This capacity to learn rapidly is a crucial part of human... Read More
North Carolina’s LGBT Measure: A Reactionary’s Response to Progress
Last week, the North Carolina Senate passed a motion to amend the state constitution with a measure effectively banning “marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships and other relationship recognition” between members of the same sex. The... Read More
Legislating Morality: How House Conservatives Endanger Lives by “Protecting” The Unborn
House conservatives have recently revived the debate over government sponsored abortions, specifically over the extent to which our government wishes to indirectly fund the procedure. Their efforts have largely been centered around the Protect Life... Read More
Lt. Dan Choi: The Face of a Movement
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks decided she had had enough. When the driver of a crowded Montgomery bus decided to extend the “whites only” seating past the section Rosa Parks was occupying, she refused... Read More
Top Ten Tea Party Quotes
"There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design." – Michele Bachmann "You know what, evolution is a myth….Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?" -... Read More
Ark Park Coming to Kentucky
The Tower of Babel is going to be built (or rebuilt, depending on your view of the historicity of the Bible)in Kentucky. And that’s not all: the Ark Encounter theme park, slated to be constructed... Read More
Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame: Reproductive Rights Edition
Hall of Fame Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, aka Dan Perkins, for his hilarious commentary: While Tom Tomorrow is familiar to many of our readers, his work as of late has been fierce and unapologetic. As the... Read More