Teen Still Bullied Even After Suicide

Submitted by Ron

The teens who taunted Jamey Rodemeyer are now taunting his grieving sister with chants of, “We’re glad you’re dead.”

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Pat Robertson: Christians Shouldn’t Celebrate Halloween, “It’s The Night For The Devil”

On his 700 Club show, Pat Robertson responded to a viewer who was “unsettled” that his church had a haunted house.

Robertson: Halloween is Satan’s night, it’s the night for the devil. It’s All Hallow’s Eve but its time when witches and goblins—

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Mississippi Ballot Question Would Change Meaning Of “Person”

Life would begin at moment of fertilization, making all abortion illegal…

Todd Christie On Brother Chris Christie: He’s Not Running

“If he’s lying to me, I’ll be as stunned as I’ve ever been in my life“…

The Future Of Energy Use

by Stuart Shapiro

Daniel Yergin probably knows more about oil and energy usage than anyone else.  I read his book The Prize a few years ago and can’t recommend it highly enough (although it is not an a quick read in any sense of the word).  He has a new book out now on our energy consumption over the past two decades and our prospects for the years ahead.  From a review:

On present course, we will find it in fossil fuels. Predictions of the end of oil have, so far, been wrong, and Yergin predicts they will continue …

The People Pushing Chris Christie For President

Home Depot Founder Kenneth Langone, David Koch, Charles Schwab…

Heckler Shouts “Antichrist” At Obama

At the Los Angeles House of Blues the president was heckled by someone yelling “Jesus Christ is God”

Identified as David Serrano, known for rambling religious statements at county meetings…

Hallmark Introduces Job Loss Sympathy Cards

“to lift the spirits of the recently unemployed“…

White House Wants Supreme Court To Hear Health Care Case

Justice will skip 9th Circuit and ask SCOTUS to overturn 11th Circuit decision…

Churches Battle Over Billboards And Whether Being Gay Is A Gift From God

Submitted by William

Rev. Tony Scott: “It’s not a gift, [it's a] deviant lifestyle”…

Sorry Mitt, You’re One Of Us

by Stuart Shapiro

A few days ago Gov. Romney slammed the president for getting his ideas from the Harvard Faculty lounge. Aside from the fact that talking to smart people might be a good way to get ideas, did Mitt forget his background?  Did Mitt overcome a hardscrabble youth and a community college education?  Are his advisers people who have spent their lives far from the ivy groves of academe?  Um, not exactly. (h/t Jed Lewison)

Romney has never served on the battlefield, but he does hold degrees from Harvard in business and law. That’s one more than …