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Westboro Equality House: Aaron Jackson Paints Rainbow Home Across From Anti-Gay ChurchThe Westboro Baptist Church is about to get a big surprise in the form of a new neighbor who plans to give the notoriously anti-gay group a taste of its own medicine. Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of...

...and punish those having sex outside of marriage, to restore sanity, says Pat Fagan of the Family Research Council. Seriously. Apparently this all started 41 years ago. Who knew?

To be fair, he didn't have a teleprompter! Paul Ryan: 'We're not going to give up on destroying the health care system' - YouTube

Big news from the North, West Territories specifically. An agreement has been reached between NWT and Ottawa that would give more power to the NWT. Currently, Ottawa receives a large portion of the money created by the resource boom in the North. This deal would see more of that pie going to the...

Well, I seem to remember some saying that China would never willingly put in place policies that slow their growth. It was BS then, and still is. With China moving forward with a price on carbon emissions, that pretty much destroys one of the most popular do-nothing talking points. Global...

Crafty and very cool! A German student has built a device that captures electromagnetic radiation and converts it to electricity. German student builds electromagnetic harvester to recharge a battery His device works in two bandwidths, one that can harvest EM from electrical lines, and another...

An interesting report of a Tennessee for-profit school caught deleting failing grades: Republican-backed for-profit school caught deleting bad student grades | The Raw Story So much for the superior metrics and performance standards. There is nothing accurate about deleting performance records.

Young Kim Jong Un is defying the Chinese. I wonder how well he understands calculus ... North Korea defies UN, conducts 3rd nuke test - World - CBC News

According to Shibani Joshi, a Fox Business reporter, Germany has a very successful solar industry (30% of electric power generation) compared to the US because they receive more sunlight than the US, and not because Germany has feed-in tariiffs that mandate utilities to accept solar generation...

In mice. Not in clinical trials yet. Oncolytic viruses are a popular research topic these days: Engineered oncolytic herpes virus inhibits ovarian and breast cancer metastases "Numerous laboratories worldwide are using viruses as more specific weapons against cancer cells, called oncolytic...

Coyne's article could also be called "Why is manufacturing so special?" No good reasons for government handouts to corporations | Full Comment | National Post In Coyne's excellent article, he highlights the pseudo-economic arguments advanced by former economists and our Government for propping...

Satanists Plan Rally in Support of Florida Gov. Rick Scott - ABC News The Satanic Temple is planning its first major rally, which will be held in support of Florida Gov. Rick Scott later this month for -- which might sound ironic -- signing a bill that allows for the possibility of prayer in...

Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit, who contributed to the sharing of knowledge through the development of RSS web feeds, an activist who worked to expose SOPA, committed suicide on January 11, 2013. He was charged by the US Attorney's Office in Boston with 13 felony counts for illegally...

Yikes, good thing the teacher found his journal... A Russell County high school teacher uncovered what is being called a terror plot when she found a misplaced journal in the classroom. Authorities rushed in discovered the beginnings of improvised explosives in the house of Derek Shrout, 17...

"Take That ****** Off The TV, We Wanna Watch Football!": Idiots Respond To NBC Pre-Empting Sunday Night Football Just wow.

I guess dumpthemonarchy must be predisposed doing something else to have missed this. Immigration Minister Jason Kenny recently announced changes to our immigration program, specifically to bring in more with skilled trades. Canada is actually in absolute terms projected to have the fourth...

Turns out, maybe not. According to state Democratic Senators, the Michigan Constitution gives authority to the "Civil Service Commission over conditions of employment for the state's workforce." So this law may join Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's anti-union legislation if the courts throw...

That's great news...the dispersant was meant to prevent the damage caused by oil. Clearly the off-shore drilling industry is stabbing in the dark when they present their risk assessments to regulators. The study found that mixing the dispersant with oil increased toxicity of the mixture up to...

Alabama 'Teabagger' Brian Downing sentenced to two years for Bourbon Street Prank He’s known to most people as the ‘Bama Teabagger, but his name is Brian Downing and he’s 33 years old. It was video shot on a cell phone camera that got him into trouble after Alabama beat LSU in the BCS...

How does one become a CEO when you are a complete idiot? Maybe he went to a Donald Trump seminar...Here's the comments:Seat belts on airplanes are useless. That was the latest rant by Michael O’Leary, the chief executive for RyanAir, the ultra-low-cost airline based in Ireland. O’Leary, who...