By: Blake Neff Published: July 3, 2015 A philosophy and religion professor at Syracuse University gave an interview to The New York Times Thursday in which he critiqued the notion of pure reason as simply being a “white male Euro-Christian construction.” Prof. John Caputo was being interviewed by fellow philosophy professor George Yancy for the 13th installment of an interview series…
By Josh Fatzick District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser was proud to announce Wednesday the minimum-wage hike that took effect that day, though just across town activists were still fighting for more. At $9.50, the District of Columbia minimum wage was already higher than any state in the nation before it rose to $10.50 Wednesday. “Raising the…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Birmingham Parks and Recreation board voted unanimously Wednesday to remove a monument to the Confederacy from a public park across the street from Birmingham City Hall and the Jefferson County Courthouse. Parks and Recreation Board member and former Birmingham Mayor Benard Kincaid told a local Fox affiliate he wants to respect history, but…
By: Laura Meyers One wife, two wife, three wife, four! Nathan Collier of Billings, Montana has two wives, Vicki and Christine. He is legally married to Vicki, but also wants to legally wed Christine. Now, after the recent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, now seems like the perfect time to solidify his own rights….
Obama Finds It’s Surprisingly Tough To Eliminate His Wage Gap By Blake Neff Data recently released by the White House has revealed President Barack Obama’s staff continues to have a large pay gap between male and female employees, a reality that suggests Obama’s campaign against a “discriminatory” gender pay gap rests on shaky ground. The…
By: Laura Meyers Everything is bigger in Texas, including the aliens and tinfoil cowboy hats. A number of sightings were reported to The Mutual UFO Network last month when Texans kept confusing circular clouds for UFOs. The initial report reads as such: Rare sight captured yesterday in Southeast Texas after severe weather. UFO? pic.twitter.com/W2ZBnwkeyI —…
George Takei’s racist attack on Justice Thomas today is impossible to take out of context. The phrase “clown in blackface” can have only racist connotations. For quite awhile now I have regularly enjoyed reading Takei’s commentary on various issues, his jokes and bad puns on his Facebook page, and many other things he has done over…
Enviros That Supported The Pope’s Encyclical Tout Abortion To Solve Global Warming By Michael Bastasch Here’s some irony for you. The same environmentalists that fervently supported the Pope’s call for global governance over the climate and oceans are also pushing explicitly anti-Catholic policies to fight global warming: more access to contraceptives and abortion. The Sierra…
By Blake Neff Zandria Robinson, the recently-departed University of Memphis professor who described “whiteness” as synonymous with “terror,” had even more old tweets resurface Thursday, in which she blames whites for every lethal riot in U.S. history, blasts Dick and Jane stories for being “heteropatriarchal,” and even attributes her menstrual disorder to white “microaggressions.” (RELATED:…
By: Laura Meyers White people are crazy. Dr. (and I use that title lightly) Adam Kotsko, a professor at Shimer College in Chicago, Illinois, thinks that all white people have been “complicit” in slavery, and should therefore “commit mass suicide” as reparation. He also continues to suggest that white people only exist in order to…