Americas

Americans’ growing support for free speech doesn’t include racist speech

Washington Post: Americans tend to pick and choose who should be afforded civil liberties to some degree, a centuries-old issue that has flared up once again after a video of racist chants by University of Oklahoma fraternity brothers went viral. The university’s president David Boren last week expelled two students filmed making the racist chants. […]

Elton John opposes Georgia religious freedom act

cnbc.com: Sir Elton John disagrees with a bill in Georgia that would allow individuals and businesses to use their religious beliefs to discriminate against certain groups of people, including gay residents. The English pop star, a champion for LGBT social movements worldwide, wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution […]

New Atheism: The Mother Lode of Bad Ideas

Patheos.com: March 13, 2015 by Qasim Rashid  Mere hours after condemning the murder of three Muslim students at Chapel Hill last month, notorious anti-theist Richard Dawkins happily returned to spreading falsehood and hatred of Islam, tweeting, “Alas, criminal individual killers exist. But there’s only 1 ideology now that preaches the […]

2 Officers Are Shot Outside Ferguson Police Station

Source: NY Times: FERGUSON, Mo. — Two St. Louis County police officers were shot early Thursday outside the Ferguson police station, the county police said. The officers’ conditions were not known. The shootings followed protests by several dozen demonstrators, which included occasional clashes with the police and a few arrests. […]