Ted Cruz’s birthplace matters – but not for the reason you think
Why We Want To Believe Conspiracy Theories
Published: Good Men Project (March 5, 2015)
Matthew Rozsa holds conspiracy theorists to the same standard of skepticism that they claim to use.
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Maybe it was my mistake. After all, what kind of person expects to hear intelligent political analysis from two drunks in an alley?
Granted, it was the alley adjacent to my house, and while I was nowhere near as inebriated as my two new acquaintances, I was buzzing from a couple of beers myself.... Read Original Article
Why ISIS and Republican zealots have more in common than you think
Published: Daily Dot (February 11, 2015)
If there is one thing we can learn from the Christian Right’s continued response to President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, it is that religious prejudice isn’t limited to any specific religion. Ironically, the online effort by social conservatives to rebut Obama’s most controversial point—namely, that we “remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ”—wound up demonstrating precisely why he was correct in making it.... Read Original Article