Fox4 in Kansas City: In an effort to protect the public from infectious diseases, a proposed bill in Kansas has some feeling ostracized. That’s because some are interpreting the bill to allow people with HIV or AIDS to be quarantined.Right now, if a firefighter or a paramedic in Kansas is exposed to bodily fluids while […]
Dominic Holden
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Sorry, Justice Kennedy, It’s Not About the Children
I’m no scholar of the high court (hell, I wasn’t even a scholar of the high school) so take my analysis with a shaker of salt. And I won’t tackle the argument that plaintiffs may lack standing—which is one way of avoiding the juicy stuff that everyone cares about: constitutional rights. But it seems Justice […]
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When Polling Turns Against You, Voters Reject You, and the Parties Abandon You, There’s Only One Thing You Can Do to Ban Gay Marriage
Pray. You can pray for the Supreme Court to strike down gay marriage. You can pray the justices will fear the wrath of a vengeful god. You can pray your bigoted little heart out. So that’s what Traditional Values Coalition president Andrea Lafferty, who has spent every other option, begs you to do in a […]
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The New Pope Is a Bigot Just Like the Last Pope
The cardinals of the Catholic Church have elected Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the past archbishop of Buenos Aires, making him the first Latin American pope. He wants to go by Pope Francis, but he shall be known to us as Beef Pope the First. The National Catholic Reporter‘s recent profile on The Beef Pope confirms […]
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Why Republicans Love the Sequestration
The $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts that began last week will make a superficial scratch in corporate profits (only about 1 percent), the New York Times reports this morning, but the cuts are expected to cost about 700,000 American jobs. This is good news for Republicans. The so-called sequestration more or less just […]
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News Flash: NRA Members Think Government Is Coming to Seize Their Guns
The National Rifle Association just blasted reporters with the results of a recent survey of its members, touting a popular sentiment to deny guns to the mentally ill. Now, if you ask me, all members of NRA must be mentally ill. But as a friend of mine argued, “That’s not fair to mentally ill people.” […]
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The Fun Stops for TSA Employees
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSI Systems Inc. (OSIS) couldn’t write software to make passenger images less revealing… The agency removed 76 of the machines from busier U.S. airports last year. It will now get rid of the remaining 174 Rapiscan machines, […]
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Obama’s Gun Control Plan
Here’s the announcement: Among the initiatives outlined in Mr. Obama’s plan include universal background checks for gun sales, the reinstatement and strengthening of the assault weapons ban, capping ammunition magazines to a 10-round limit, banning armor-piercing ammunition, providing schools with resource officers and school counselors, putting more police officers on the streets, creating serious punishments […]
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Prosecutor Rightly Blamed for Death of Aaron Swartz
After pressing this arsenal of nasty charges: Aaron Swartz’s legacy was already guaranteed, even at 26: He helped create Reddit and RSS, which distributes content over the Internet. But his suicide by hanging Friday has also stoked a politically malignant aftermath for the prosecutors pursuing 13 felony charges against him in a trial that was […]
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White House Says “Today Is Not The Day” to Debate Gun Control
As news filtered in Friday from the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “today is not the day,” to engage in a policy debate over gun control. The shooting at an elementary school killed 27, the Associated Press reported Friday afternoon. Bullshit. Today is exactly the day to discuss […]
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Supreme Court Will Hear Gay Marriage
New York Times: The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would enter the national debate over same-sex marriage, agreeing to hear a pair of cases challenging state and federal laws that define marriage to include only unions of a man and a woman. One of the cases, from California, could establish or reject a […]
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Don’t Donate to the Salvation Army
Here’s your annual reminder to ignore those bell ringers… unless you think gay people are less needy and less deserving.