POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Dr. Jill Stein Gets Hack Questions on Fox News” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

Green party nominee Jill Stein fought back against claims her campaign policy ideas are a “fairy tale” on Sunday, and argued for her right to appear in the presidential debates alongside the major party “nightmare campaigns”.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Elizabeth Warren Attacked Dr. Jill Stein—Jill Responded with FIRE!” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮

Elizabeth Warren made the same mistake many politicians are making: she claimed Jill Stein is helping Donald Trump get elected. That’s right, after running away from the candidate that would easily beat Trump [Bernie] and endorsing the poster child for political corruption [Hillary], Elizabeth Warren is trying to blackmail the progressives she abandoned by attacking the one candidate now standing up for them. Well, she got a response from Jill Stein that she’s probably not going to like too much.

CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Phyllis Schlafly, Anti-Feminist, Homophobic, Conservative Christian Activist, Dead at 92 — and the World is Better for it” ☮

Phyllis SchlaflyHistory will show she was on the wrong sides of several important issues. She spent her life defending positions that society has overwhelmingly rejected in favor of tolerance, inclusion, and kindness. She was alive long enough to see the legalization of marriage equality and the rise of a strong feminist movement that continues to this day.

Let’s just be grateful that many of the dreams she had will never be achieved.

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Classic Phyllis Schlafly Talks About Hispanics
Interview with David Pakman, Published on Aug 16, 2014

Phyllis Schlafly: Christians Are Better, Regardless of the Facts
Interview with David Pakman, Published on Mar 10, 2015

Mr. Pakman intellectually wipes the floor with Phyllis Schlafly’s ignoramus ass par excellence!

CRITICAL THINKING: “Mother Teresa: Hell’s Angel” / Christopher Hitchens ☮

Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. Probes her campaigns against contraception and abortion and her relationships with right-wing political leaders.

READING: “Luddites Rejoice! Americans Still Prefer Printed Books” / PBS Newshour ☮

Girl with Coloring BookThe printed book remains the popular choice for readers over their digital counterparts, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.

In the past year, 65 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said they read a book in its printed form. 28 percent of people said they read an e-book over the same period, while 14 percent said they listened to an audio book.

Continue reading . . .

MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “How Much Can We Reduce Military Spending Before it’s a Risk?” / The Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses the enormous amount of money the United States puts into military spending every year.

CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Colin Kaepernick and the National Anthem” / New York Daily News / Liberal Redneck / Comedian, Trae Crowder ☮

The Daily News’ Hillbilly-in-Chief Trae Crowder is ready for some football and not the “politically divisive hot potato” that is the Colin Kaepernick national anthem situation, which ironically has offended people who have spent “the better part of a year complaining about how not great America is.”

“I do agree with Kaepernick about racism in America, but I don’t agree with how he chose to express it, but that’s all it was. A peaceful expression of his opinion. So can we please stop with the death threats and the racial slurs and just get back to what really matters… watching gigantic, freakish men in arbitrarily significant uniforms give each other gradual brain damage for the pursuit of our entertainment?”