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Arkansas Hospital Creates Its own Death Panel

Arkansas Hospital Creates Its own Death Panel

  I don’t like to share much private information about myself or my health, but something so profound and so disturbing has just happened to me and is happening to others in White County (Searcy) Arkansas that I feel as though I need to bring as much awareness as possible about it. Below is a brief story on my experience with what could only be described as a private death panel.

I suffer from a…

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Religious beliefs for corporations win in Supreme Court

Religious beliefs for corporations win in Supreme Court

Today, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in what is considered a landmark decision that gives corporations the right to decide what their employees receive coverage for, in terms of their insurance they have with that corporation. What does this mean? It means a company can pick whatever they want to deny, and say it’s due to religious belief.

I can’t stress enough how hypocritical Hobby Lobby is in…

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Secular Sunday Matinee #5 - Carrie

Secular Sunday Matinee #5 – Carrie

      This weeks Secular Sunday Matinee is Carrie. Who can resist Stephen King’s work, a young John Travolta, the awesome Sissy Spacek, and the overzealously religious acting of Piper Laurie as Carries mother? “They’re all going to laugh at you!” has been parodied by so many films and television shows, but in reality, this movie touched on some really serious issues regarding mental illness and…

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Top 5 GOP Fails for June 2014

Top 5 GOP Fails for June 2014

In this new top 5 segment, each month we will list the fails/fallacies of the GOP party backing it up with evidence at the time, along with any fallacies they commit and the definition of said fallacy. We will not state opinion, but the irony here is the fact that we are rather biased. This is “nothing but the facts”, so help me Flying Spaghetti Monster.

  5. Jordan Haskins running for office…

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First Anniversary of DOMA ruling but where was the excitement?

First Anniversary of DOMA ruling but where was the excitement?

As I was spending quite a lot of time on Facebook as I usually do, scouring for things I miss in my custom news listings on Google, I saw little hype or excitement for the ruling one year ago Thursday (June 26th) of the strikedown of a key part of DOMA that paved the way for states one after another to strike down laws against same-sex marriage. Why was this? Why was there very little hype or…

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