Link: Pope Francis called right-wing Christian fundamentalism a sickness

Conservatives are sociopaths

There are conservative Democrats, but almost all Republicans are conservative. Hence: Comments comments

Moderate Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted more similary to Dems than to Repugs

An analysis of voting records of US Senators shows that moderate Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted more similarly to Democrats than to Republicans. This continues the analysis of Congressional voting records begun in Visualized grouping of US Congress members by similarities in their voting record.  The data is based on voting records collected at […]

On the new atheists and liberal values

In What scares the new atheists John Gray argues that militant atheists, such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Danniel Dennet, are mistaken in their belief that secularism can cure the world’s problems. Rather, suggests Gray, the atheists are cultural imperialists who, like the proponents of Social Darwinism a century or so ago, […]