Read the captions. Apparently black people loot (http://www.bairey.com/journal/katrina1.jpg, http://www.bairey.com/journal/katrina2.jpg) and white people "find" ( Leave a comment  5 

How politicians from both sides of the aisle are using this "common sense" idea to shield insurance companies and turn back the clock on worker's rights.Would you take $50,000 to spend the rest of your life paralyzed from the neck down, confined to a wheelchair and unable to control your bodily functions? How about $100,000, or maybe even $500,000 ( Read more... )

How a concerted effort can make poverty a thing of the pastI’m often critical of our government’s penchant for dishonesty and exaggeration, but I must say that after hearing some recent news, I’m profusely thankful for what honesty we do receive. For several weeks now, a famine in the African country of Niger and surrounding areas has been ( Read more... )

I'll give this to the American Pro-Life movement: just like any other solid and upstanding institution of modern American culture, they have become so riddled with hypocrisy that one wonders how they can possibly continue to hold credibility in the public eye. But like most other societal institutions, they have worked so hard to mangle reason ( Read more... )

Recently, I've seen more and more people use the term "reverse discrimination" in situations where they feel that a member of society's majority is being somehow marginalized by one minority or another. There are a couple fallacies related to this idea, and I think its important we (especially members of the majority) recognize them before we ( Read more... )