Category Archives: Politics
Video: Bill Maher, “On Religion and Voting”
Video: Bill Maher, “On France”
Article: “Report: As Union Membership Rates Decrease, Middle Class Incomes Shrink”
When unions were stronger in the middle part of the last century, American workers wages rose as they became increasingly more productive. But today, as union strength has decreased, this link has broken down: even though American workers grow increasingly more productive, their wages have stagnated.
Article: “Gaylor Writes Congressman Rangel Appeal to Remember Secular Americans”
Notably, your political opponents cite the same god as you do when they oppose social services funding. (Abraham Lincoln pointed out the irony, in his famous speech noting that both sides of the Civil War prayed to the same deity and invoked the same bible.) Belief that “God is on my side” is one of the most common sources of political strife, violence, bloodshed and warfare.
Video: Bill Maher, “Bradley Byrne Attack Ad”
Video: Bill Maher, “On the Tea Baggers Pining for the 1950s”
Video: Pat Condell, “United States of Jesus”
Essay: Anders Breivik, Stieg Larsson, and the Men with the Nazi Tattoos
“Rightwing (sic) extremist groups and their more violent affiliates were dismissed as disorganised, fragmented and irrelevant movement.” The Norway attacks, […], might ‘prove to be a watershed moment in terms of how we approach far-right followers, groups and their ideology.'”
Article: PFAW Report: The Right Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism
“The report lays out how the Right Wing is using a set of specific strategies to stir up destructive fears, and as a result are putting our fundamental tradition of equality and justice at risk.”