So what do Atheists do?

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Sunday September 04, 2011 · 5:59 AM PDT

2011/09/04 · 05:59

How much of an uphill battle are atheists and secularists really fighting in the US?

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 3:47 PM PDT

2011/08/01 · 15:47

This will be brief, as I am heading to bed, but the quotes speak for themselves.

Columnist, professor and GLORIA director Barry Rubin in the Jerusalem Post today:

One of the most sensitive aspects of the murderous terrorist attack in Norway by a right-wing gunman is this irony: The youth camp he attacked was engaged in what was essentially (though the campers didn’t see it that way, no doubt) a pro-terrorist program.

Wiki:

Rubin is a frequent contributor to the Middle East column in The Jerusalem Post. His articles have also appeared frequently in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, Middle East Quarterly, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly, The New Republic, and others.

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Friday July 29, 2011 · 12:05 PM PDT

2011/07/29 · 12:05

Just some snapshots of Oslo, taken around 15:30 today. The bomb exploded at 15:26 last Friday.

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Tuesday July 26, 2011 · 5:27 AM PDT

2011/07/26 · 05:27

Four days after the massacres in Norway, Matt Drudge has made a startling discovery:

This is true. Had Drudge watched Michael Moore, he could have learned this shocking fact a long time ago:

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Sunday May 29, 2011 · 2:51 AM PDT

2011/05/29 · 02:51

14 women and children were killed by ISAF bombs in Afghanistan on Saturday. 6 children were among the wounded.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters)– An air strike called in by NATO-led troops in southern Afghanistan killed 12 children and two women, Afghan officials said on Sunday, one of the worst civilian death tolls by foreign forces in months.

Fourteen women and children have been killed after Nato warplanes bombed their homes in south-west Afghanistan.Six others were wounded in the attack, according to local reports, after the airstrike in Nawzad district, in the country's volatile Helmand province.Two women, five girls and seven boys were among the dead, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial government.

The Daily Mail article contains photos from the scene.

UPDATE:
Now this:

Separately the governor of Nuristan on Sunday told AFP that 18 civilians and 20 police were killed by "friendly fire" during US-led air strikes against insurgents in his troubled northeastern province.
[...]
Major James said those allegations were also being investigated.
"ISAF has sent a fact-finding team to investigate the allegations about civilian and police casualties in Nuristan," he said.

"Our initial reporting does not indicate civilian casualties in that air strike," he added.

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Friday May 13, 2011 · 3:03 PM PDT

2011/05/13 · 15:03

A crosspost of my comment to Glenn Greenwald’s excellent article today.

When I heard of the bin Laden assassination by Navy SEALs, one of the first things that crossed my mind was that a bin Laden-type operation almost, or even partly, took place a few years ago only a short distance away from where I live.

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Sunday April 03, 2011 · 7:52 AM PDT

2011/04/03 · 07:52

The Qu’ran should be burned.

As should the Bible.

Or to use the words of a former priest, and a great teacher of religion, Alan Watts,:

I think the Bible ought to be ceremoniously and reverently burned every Easter. We need it no more, because the Spirit is with us. It’s a dangerous book, and to worship it is of course a far more dangerous idolatry than bowing down to images of wood and stone. Nobody can confuse a wooden image with God, but you can very easily confuse a set of ideas with God, because concepts are more rarified and abstract.”

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Wednesday December 22, 2010 · 1:02 AM PST

2010/12/22 · 01:02

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has obtained the entire cache of more than 250,000 cables -- without limitations. So far, it seems it is the only media outlet in the World to do so.

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Tuesday November 09, 2010 · 4:41 AM PST

2010/11/09 · 04:41

Finally. I’ve been waiting a long time for you to say this.

Someone other than me asked the question, and you answered like I hoped and knew you would.

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Friday October 29, 2010 · 1:21 PM PDT

2010/10/29 · 13:21

Oh wait, it isn't.

Ok --.

Go back to your elections.

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 3:58 AM PDT

2009/09/02 · 03:58

I'm a Norwegian who once lived in the US for a period of time. I have battled the healthcare systems both in the US and in my own country. I have also been following the US healthcare debate, and I find the resistance among many Americans to public health care/socialized medicine simply astonishing. Regardless of the flaws and challenges one will find in many socialized systems, anything but a system where government guarantees true universal healthcare seems unconscionable to me.

I have also watched many strange interviews with American conservatives arguing against universal healthcare or any progressive government reform by using vague and pompous warnings against the evils of Socialism.

Among my favorites is Sarah Palin, of course. I find it incomprehensible and yet highly fascinating that this lady has enjoyed so much support. Last year, when she quoted from Ronald Regan's dramatic speech against Medicare and used it as a general descpription of how Socialism and Communism were threatening the lives of free Americans, it only added to my fascination.

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Thursday July 23, 2009 · 6:52 AM PDT

2009/07/23 · 06:52

I watched NBC's "The Wanted" yesterday. Today, I commented on an article by David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun. I'm crossposting those comments here, somewhat edited.

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