Only a few weeks ago, President Obama announced a new federal rule stating that religious institutions would be required to provide insurance coverage for birth control. Naturally, Catholic ideologues threw a fit.

The Super Bowl of political theater, the State of the Union is the one time of year that all of the federal government gets together and pretends to be interested in what the President has to say.

It’s been 15 months and the Gulf is still a mess after the BP oil spill. Meanwhile, BP and Haliburton continue to grow wealthier and face no consequences.

Reaction to the Penn State sex controversy from freethinker.

Occupy Pittsburgh continues to hold camp into November as shown in this photo gallery.

More Occupy Pittsburgh photos, these from the camp site at Mellon Green, from October 22nd.

Some photos from the October 15 2011 Occupy Pittsburgh rally, one of the many spin-offs of Occupy Wall Street.

How a program that requires public service might work and what it might achieve.

In the continuing series, I examine how worship of the dollar overrides the value of human life.

Christians are sleeping with the enemy.