Author: Sydney Robinson

Shut Up About the Cups Already: How the Extreme Right Makes Something from Nothing

Shut Up About the Cups Already: How the Extreme Right Makes Something from Nothing

Posted by | Nov 9, 2015 | , |

Mere days after Halloween, Starbucks prematurely began rolling our their holiday merchandise and beverages like usual. This roll-out included their limited edition red cups which show up every holiday season. But something was terribly amiss with these cups, because rather than being decorated with things like snowflakes and tinsel-like designs, the cups were merely a solid red. Gasp! Droves of individuals rushed to social media to express their displeasure; “The cups aren’t festive,” one whined. “They’ve taken Christ out of Christmas,” cried another. Never mind the fact that Starbucks cups do not usually have religious icons, never mind the snow man...

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Cruz, Huckabee, and Jindal Support Radical Pastor Calling for Homosexual Deaths

Cruz, Huckabee, and Jindal Support Radical Pastor Calling for Homosexual Deaths

Posted by | Nov 9, 2015 | , , |

Multiple Republican candidates showed Friday that they have no problem speaking alongside and supporting a man openly calling for the death of a minority group in America. At the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa last Friday, Senator Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal fielded questions presented by radical right-wing pastor Kevin Swanson. Topics centered around the apparent victimization of Christians in America and covered the usual crowd favorites- Abortion and homosexuality. But in the interim, when it was just Swanson on stage, he launched into a full on rant about homosexuality. “This particular sin is worthy of death,” Swanson...

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Ted Cruz Declares Non-Christians Unfit to Govern

Ted Cruz Declares Non-Christians Unfit to Govern

Posted by | Nov 9, 2015 | , |

Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz is the second presidential candidate to make a faith-based distinction on what religious group he feels deserves to hold the office of the President. “Any president who doesn’t begin every day on his knees isn’t fit to be commander-in-chief of this country,” Cruz said at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa. Cruz is very committed to his religious identity, and is part of the paranoid group that believes that Liberals are working to remove religion from American society. Cruz’s comment comes not long after Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued that Muslim individuals should...

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Here’s Another Way Brownback Has Destroyed Kansas

Here’s Another Way Brownback Has Destroyed Kansas

Posted by | Nov 9, 2015 | , |

State officials in Kansas are scrambling to avoid midyear tax cuts after Governor Brownback’s increased sales tax move failed to pull in the required funding to fulfill the state’s general fund. The increased sales tax from by four-tenths of a percent, to 6.5 percent, is a part of Governor Brownback’s policy of shifting away from a reliance on income tax to fund the state’s general fund. Democrats decried the shift, with House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs saying that “a tax plan that is overly dependent upon a sales tax is neither responsible, equitable, nor sustainable.” Reportedly, the total taxes in October were...

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GOP Tyrants in Wisconsin Will Begin Drug Testing Welfare Recipients on Monday

GOP Tyrants in Wisconsin Will Begin Drug Testing Welfare Recipients on Monday

Posted by | Nov 9, 2015 | , |

The Republican party is as determined as ever to demonize poor Americans, punishing them for daring to be unemployed and disadvantaged. The latest in a long string of abuses against those we should be trying to help most has been inflicted by Governor Scott Walker in a recent approval of a rule which permits drug testing for individuals seeking certain welfare benefits. This is not the first time this idea has been proposed, and it will not be the first time that the rule will fail to garner any sort of tangible results. To those who claim that it will...

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