NYP: ALBANY - Call it an un-cover charge. A Brooklyn assemblyman introduced a bill yesterday that would require patrons to pay the state $10 every time they visit a strip club or topless joint. Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said the flesh fee could raise as much as $500 million for victims of human traff...

The good news from Connecticut is that, in the face of a vast protest unprecedented in state history, the two lawmakers who were trying to push legislation to steal parishes away from the Catholic church have given up the atttempt. For now. Their rationale, however, is insane . The Democratic co-cha...

At the recent arguments against California's recently-adopted ban on marriage, you get a protester holding up a sign congratulating Harvey Milk's murderer as a hero (scene shot here); the domestic-parntership expansion bill here in Washington State is prompting the fundamentalist right to air a huge...

Okay, it's straight stolen. And I'm going to link two or three other posts at the end of this blatant theft...none to any that will piss ME off, and there are a few of those available. I picked this one because the writer exposes stuff alien to me...if I'm going to be poking at this stuff with a sti...

How Kennedy Won the House and Lost the South By Richard Reeves The president’s proposals would die in Rules if the two senior, Southern, conservative Democrats on the committee, Howard Smith of Virginia, the chairman, and William Colmer of Mississippi, joined the Republicans. When that happened, a...

The culture war on faith and religion is ratcheting up several notches. The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States declares that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to t...

There are a lot of reasons not to hold Arthur Conan Doyle up as a guide to solid scientific practice. The creator of the famously rational Sherlock Holmes was also an advocate of spiritualism and the existence of fairies, after all. Setting that aside, it would be a bad mistake to cite the work of f...

This is a response to last arguments and a post to me on the An Amazing First Century thread, which is too long for me to follow using dial-up… oleg: Historians are not trying to straighten out theology. It's none of their business. But they are well equipped to study Jesus Christ as a hi...

It's damn hard for Mr. Obama to present himself (as he sold himself) to us as the tech-savvy President, when his political party is about to force the unproven "greenhouse gas" theory (aka Anthropogenic Global Warming) of Climate Change down all our throats.In 1970, the Endangered Species Act was so...

I just ran across a post that Jason Robertson did last year on MMA: http://fide-o.blogspot.com/2008/03/blocking-low-blows_24.html I’ll comment on some of the negative feedback. For the record, I have seen some UFC matches on TV. TruthStands said... “I would add to the conversation on the negativ...