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Texas Open Carry Supporter Suggests Shooting Liberal ‘Domestic Enemies’ (Video)

Mike Vanderboegh, founder of the Three-Percenters, is again looking for reasons to kill his fellow Americans according to Friday’s piece by Travis Gettys at The Raw Story website. Speaking last month at the Howard County Chapter of Open Carry Texas, Vanderboegh labeled Americans who hold a contrary view to his, as “domestic enemies of liberty”.

This is the usual tactic of the radical right wing.…

The Difference Between True Christianity and Christian Narcissism

Deanna M. Boudov writes about the reaction and treatment from family and friends when she comes out as an atheist. Patheos.com reposted part of Boudov’s guest blog poston Godlessindixie.com. Boudov spends a good part of the essay venting on her mother, but much of her insight on the workings of evangelical Christianity come from a perspective that not only includes growing up in an evangelical…

BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republicans Continue Protecting the Rich, Block Senator Warren’s Student Loan Bill

A bill by Senator Elizabeth Warren that would have cut the interest rate on older student loans down to less than 4% has been blocked by Senate Republicans. As ABC reports, before the vote Senator Warren made clear the bill’s purpose:

With this vote we show the American people who we work for in the United States Senate: billionaires or students. A vote on this legislation is a vote to give…

Surprise! NRA Backtracks On Criticism of Open Carry Texas (Video)

Well, that didn’t take long. As we reported Monday, the lobbying arm of the NRA had posted a scathing rebuke of its open-carry advocates who like to parade around in family-oriented public places with their assault rifles at the ready. Just 24 hours later, and after a threat by Open Carry Texas to fully withdraw its support of the NRA, the gun lobby went into damage-control mode, as reportedby…

Former Marine Receives Death Threats After Despicable Texas Open Carry Group Posts Info on Web (Video)

Open Carry Tarrant County has done it again, this time leaving a man fearing for his safety. The former Marine who was followed and harassed by OCTC is now receiving death threats. James Henry, who does production, work was filming an OCTC at a Memorial Day weekend demonstration when members of the group began to grill him. They followed him, videotaped his license plate and phone number and…

Gay-Hating ‘Christians’ Flip Out Over Honoring Harvey Milk with Stamp (Video)

On May 22nd, the White House hosted a unique event: for the first time in history an openly gay man, Harvey Milk, was honored with a commemorative U.S. postal stamp. Harvey Milk fought for gay rights at a time when homosexuality was horribly stigmatized;  he was murdered in November 1978, shot five times by a fellow elected official.

Far right-wing Christian groups have predictably been in a…

Uh Oh! Texas Gunbillies Strike Out a 2nd, And Then a 3rd Time! (Video)

First it was Chipotle. Now managers at Sonic and Chili’s have stepped up and refused service to members of Open Carry Texas, the terribly misguided organization whose members believe it is appropriate to openly display their guns, often assault rifles, in family-oriented public places. And it was all caught on videos made by the group itself, which has now taken the videos down from its Youtube…

New Study: As Executive Pay Rises at Universities, So Does Poverty Wage-Paid Professors and Student Debt

I am an adjunct professor at a major public university in Dallas, Texas. I kept track of all the hours required of me last semester to properly teach my course load, and by semester’s end I had earned $8.26 an hour. Yes, you read that right, as a COLLEGE PROFESSOR I was paid $8.26 an hour. In the meantime, the university’s president will be paid over half a million dollars this year.

This…