POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Will Hillary’s Goldman Sachs Speech Transcripts Leak?” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.

CHRISTIAN HOMOPHOBIC BIGOTRY: “Christian Fundamentalist: Trans-Rights Activists Also Promote Pedophilia” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver asserted that North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law and the Religious Right’s boycott of Target are necessary because efforts to allow transgender people to use facilities that match their gender identity are being pushed by pedophilia advocates.

ANTI-ATHEIST BIGOTRY: “Atheists are ‘Corrupt’, ‘Abominable’ and ‘None’ are Good” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

On today’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program, Fundamentalist, Religious Right activist and Colorado State legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt shared his thoughts on a lawsuit filed against a California school district for refusing to inform students about scholarships that were being offered by atheist groups.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “What Does the GOP Stand for Now?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann

Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio/Black Lives Matter DC & Max Blumenthal, Alternet/The 51 Day War-Ruin and Resistance in Gaza both join Thom. If Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders are concerned that Trump isn’t conservative enough – and Trump’s supporters are upset that the Republican party isn’t changing its platform according to “the will of the people” – what exactly does the Republican Party stand for anymore?

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the US” / The Young Turks / Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich, and Kim Horcher ☮

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University did and extensive study looking at the issue of medical errors and the number of lives that are lost in the US every year because of them. Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich (Pop Trigger), and Kim Horcher (Nerd Alert), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday, shows that “medical errors” in hospitals and other health care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.

Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research, said in an interview that the category includes everything from bad doctors to more systemic issues such as communication breakdowns when patients are handed off from one department to another.

“It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care,” Makary said.”

PERFORMING ARTS – THEATER: “The Judas Kiss” / British Play / Rupert Everett plays Oscar Wilde / by David Hare / 2016 ☮


Rupert Everett plays Oscar Wilde in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss —a compelling drama about the power of all consuming love and the cruelty of betrayal. It is 1895 and Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, is playing in the West End after a triumphant premiere, but already the wheels are in motion, which will lead to his imprisonment, downfall and vilification.

Forced to make a choice between his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and his freedom, the ever romantic Wilde embarks on a course towards self-destruction.

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