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Mediaite.com:
Ted Cruz spoke at Liberty University today and
talked at some length about how big the threat against religious freedom
is in the United States. He railed against the IRS and spoke up in
support of Hobby Lobby, declaring that “religious liberty’s never been
more under assault.”
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Cruz brought up an Air Force chaplain who got in trouble for saying
there are no atheists in foxholes. Cruz laughingly asked if it’s not supposed to be the job of a chaplain “to be insensitive to atheists.”
He railed against the government forcing groups like Hobby Lobby and
Little Sisters of the Poor to “violate their religious beliefs,” which
he found especially ironic because of how Pilgrims came to the U.S. to
begin with to flee religious persecution. He told the audience that
there needs to be a call to action where people of faith should “stand
and speak, no matter what the consequence.”
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Mediaite.com:
Charles Krauthammer doesn’t believe seven million people have actually enrolled in Obamacare, telling Bill O’Reilly
Tuesday night that the White House is throwing out “phony numbers” by
broadening their standards in order to attain a personal victory.
Both men agreed that the goal of Obamacare was to eventually convince
the country to shift to full government control of the health care
system, with Krauthammer saying it at least would have been clearer than
“this insane mishmash” in the middle. He then charged that President Obama and the White House is not being honest when it says that a little over seven million people have signed up.
“These numbers that they are touting are phony numbers…
That’s like saying anybody who goes on Amazon, orders a nifty stereo
set, puts it in the shopping cart, has purchased the stereo set. I
assure you it’s not going to show up at your house until you pay for
it.”
Krauthammer charged that the goal from the beginning was to make
health care, “the great liberal objective,” a reality by any means
necessary. And he found it laughable for Democrats to keep asserting
it’s the law of the land, because “nothing that’s written in the law
matters, they decide what the law is every Wednesday morning.”
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Mediaite.com:
OKCupid.com is now actively asking Mozilla Firefox users to
reconsider their browser choice due to the new Mozilla CEO having
publicly expressed his opposition to gay marriage in California.
On Monday afternoon, a note appeared on the OKCupid homepage for
Mozilla users only, asking that they switch to another browser in light
of Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, having been a vocal
supporter of Proposition 8, the 2008 California ballot initiative that
created a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Back in 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to the campaign supporting Prop 8,
with Mozilla’s name attached as his employer in the public database.
When he became CEO this year, boycotts emerged primarily among the web development community.
Below is a screenshot of what a Mozilla user would see on their home page, including links to download alternative browsers:
And the full text:
Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.
Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for
gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla
software to access OkCupid.
Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know
there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you
might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve
devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If
individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the
relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal.
Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us
here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire
company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and
instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we
wish them nothing but failure.
If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site.
However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid:
[Google Chrome] [Internet Exploder] [Opera] [Safari]
Thank you,
OkCupid
Users are able to continue on to OKCupid.com after scrolling through and reading the note.
UPDATE: A Mozilla spokesperson issued the following statement:
Mozilla supports equality for all, including marriage
equality for LGBT couples. No matter who you are or who you love,
everyone deserves the same rights and to be treated equally. OK cupid
never reached out to us to let us know of their intentions, nor to
confirm facts.
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RawStory.com:
Real Time host Bill Maher went to bat to a degree for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) by comparing his recently-criticized remarks about “inner city men” to an excerpt from a May 2013 speech by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Maher — who noted the “hushed silence” from the crowd regarding
Obama’s remarks — specifically quoted from her commencement speech at Bowie State University, in which she said too many young Black people “can’t be bothered” to get a job.
“Instead of walking miles every day to school, they’re sitting on
couches for hours playing video games, watching TV,” she said at the
time. “Instead of dreaming of being a teacher or a lawyer or a business
leader, they’re fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper.”
“I just read this, and you thought it was Paul Ryan,” Maher told comedian W. Kamau Bell.
“Because you told me it was,” Bell replied.
“For a reason,” Maher said. “I’m just asking: Is something less true if a white person says it about black people?”
Maher then said it sounded like Obama agreed with Ryan.
“This sounds even more like, ‘Hey Black people, don’t be lazy,’” Maher said.
“She’s talking to Black people,” Bell retorted. “We talk to each other differently than we talk to you.”
But Ryan, Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden told
Maher, was blaming the Black and Latino communities for their problems.
“When you look at his budget, what does his budget do?” Tanden said.
“Cuts all the programs in these communities — programs that have helped
create jobs — and takes it and, until now, his budget has given massive
tax cuts to the wealthy.”
Former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY) then accused Democrats of squandering
the chance to ameliorate the problems when they were in charge of “most
of these inner cities,” on top of having a sitting Democratic president
in office and a recent majority in Congress.
“They don’t vote,” Maher said of city voters. “They don’t think it makes a difference.”
“Paul Ryan, I would say, made an awkward statement,” Lazio said, as
Tanden looked on in apparent disbelief. “At least that guy’s out there
talking about poverty. And what happens when Republicans or
conservatives pop their head up and start talking about poverty, is that
they get smacked down and called a racist.”
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