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As I’m sure many of you have heard by now, Donald Trump’s recent rally in Birmingham produced some of the biggest – and most dangerous – lies yet. As the Twin Towers came down on that fateful day, September 11, 2001, Trump claims he witnessed thousand of people cheering it’s demise: “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down, and I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were…
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The article posted in the Top Right News (the name of this website says it all – definitely foreshadows what is to come) is partly true and partly false – and I mean a hateful, purposeful fabrication in hopes of spreading more lies about Obama. The article, published by Top Right News, headlines, "After Muslim Truckers Refuse to Deliver Beer… Obama Does the Unbelievable." The Claim Obama and his administration sued a company on behalf…
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There were a multitude of idiotic things said during Round 1 and 2 of the CNN Republican Debate, but something Santorum said just turned into a splinter under my skin and has bugged me all night. It just so happens to be in a section of debate about Kim Davis. You know, the Kentucky clerk hypocrite who also happens to be a bigot and claims it is in her religious right…. The question asked: TAPPER:…
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Precious. It just could not be more precious than this. Evangelist Franklin Graham had a hissy fit over a Wells Fargo ad featuring a lesbian couple learning sign language as they are about to adopt a deaf child. Plus, a true evangelist would be happy for the child long before troubled by homosexuality. The welfare of the child should come long before his personal bigotry. To make a tantrum statement, Graham pulled all his WF…
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Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy has received a torrent of reactions, both opposing and supporting, to his recent comment: “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’ and I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is…
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Long after blacks and Jews have made great strides, and even as homosexuals gain respect, acceptance and new rights, there is still a group that lots of Americans just don’t like much: atheists. Those who don’t believe in god are widely considered to be immoral, wicked and angry. They can’t join the Boy Scouts. Atheist soldiers are rated potentially deficient when they do not score as sufficiently “spiritual” in military psychological evaluations. Surveys find that…
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