July 2015

Christian counselor cites ‘religious freedom’ right to tell gay youth offenders they’re going to hell

Bro. David Wells, of the Pleasant View Baptist Church in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, was told he could not longer offer youth counseling at the Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Bowling Green unless he signed an agreement promising to refrain from telling any juvenile inmates that homosexuality is “sinful.” Wells refused and had his counseling […]

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‘Member of the 1%’ shocks Reddit: ‘I’m voting for Bernie Sanders. Here’s why’

The user who described himself as a “white male in my 30s” said that he grew up “fairly poor,” and then started a successful consulting firm after nearly a decade in the military, earning him “membership in the 1% by pretty much any definition of the phrase.”  “After all the write offs, business expenses, mortgage

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View from Inside Fukushima Prefecture: Vastly Different from Govt. Pronouncements

Hiromichi Ugaya, a renowned photojournalist born in Kyoto City, Japan in 1963, has shed light on the effects of one of the world’s most devastating disasters. Ugaya, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Kyoto National University and a master’s degree from Columbia University, has experience in both Japan and the United States. On May 22nd

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Arctic temps warmer than Miami? We have a serious methane problem!

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has largely overlooked the potential risks of an ice-free Arctic, according to Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University. Despite the potential for a methane outbreak, the IPCC has failed to address the issue in their assessment.  The world has largely welcomed the idea of an ice-free Arctic, with

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How World War III became possible: A nuclear conflict with Russia is likelier than you think

VOX.com reports.. In August 2014, tensions began to mount as unmarked Russian troops invaded eastern Ukraine and the Russian air force began to harass the neighboring Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all of which are members of NATO. The US responded by pledging to uphold its commitment to defend these countries as if

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