ANTI-ATHEIST BIGOTRY: “Radio Host: Atheists Shouldn’t Be Judges” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer declared on his radio program on Friday that a person who does not believe in God or who supports abortion rights is unqualified to serve as a judge at any level in America.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Professor Calls for Fighting Systemic Ignorance That Leads to Islamophobia in the Classroom” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮

In the aftermath of several terrorist attacks over the weekend that involve Muslim suspects, we speak with professor Nazia Kazi of Stockton University about her latest article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Teaching Against Islamophobia in the Age of Terror.” “The U.S. war on terror would not have been possible without a deep, public anti-intellectualism,” Kazi argues. “Many of my students have been fed these binaries about the free world and the unfree world, peace-loving people and terrorists.”

CANNABIS: “Big Pharma Terrified That Medical Marijuana Will Kill Their Deadly Opioid Business” / The Young Turks / Farron Cousins ☮

Major pharmaceutical companies are pulling out their check books to defeat marijuana legalization efforts around the country, and documents show that the industry is terrified about the prospects of medical marijuana eating into their opioid painkiller profits.