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Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

…f Duke and UC-Berkeley researchers highlights the continuing growth in the number of Americans who indicate no religious affiliation, with a full 20% now answering “none” when asked “What is your religious preference?” Michael Hout and Claude S. Fisher of UCB and Mark A. Chaves of Duke drew on data from the most recent General Social Survey (GSS), which has tracked religious preference since 1972, when a mere 5% of Americans self-identified as rel…

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How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

…oke through and gained control of the presidency and Congress and passed a number of historic bills, including the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which reintroduced silver into the currency supply, and the McKinley Tariff Act, the Republican attempt to modernize the tariff schedule. They also passed a long-awaited pension for Civil War veterans and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Democrats dubbed the 51st Congress the “Billion Dollar Congress,” char…

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Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life.   In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…

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Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

…raight face, “Thank you. You too.” This scenario was repeated several more times during that day as White people dressed in faerie wings wished me a “Happy Juneteenth,” to which I always responded, “Thank you. You too!” My point was simple, the Black experience is an American experience, and more importantly a human experience, so if I can endure a yearly dose of “happy Thanksgiving,” “happy Fourth of July,” etc. these White folks were about to ge…

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