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House GOPers Attack Collective Bargaining Rights on Iowa Teachers //...
Earlier this past week when I was back near Boston, I learned that House Republicans back here in Iowa were working on a funding bill that under-funded our public schools and introduced an amendment...
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11-Person Family Threatened by the City of Hartford, CT
I learned of an 11-person family in Hartford, CT, earlier this week on Facebook whose home is being jeopardized by zoning regulations.Let me step this back a bit and define this family. They aren't...
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Indiana Poised to Sign Anti-Gay Discrimination into Law -- And I'm Fine With...
The Indiana legislature just passed a bill that will allow businesses and individuals to legally discriminate against anyone in the name of religious liberty. People are trying to get Gov. Mike Pence...
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Faith UCC in Iowa City Uses WAGE THEFT Comic Book to Study Fair Wages & Other...
Faith UCC's Ann Zerkel / WAGE THEFTMy church, Faith United Church of Christ in Iowa City became the first UCC church in Iowa to adopt a covenant for Economic Justice last June. Basically, we pledged to...
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Harper Lodge Returns in ARCHIE #665
Remember Harper Lodge? She is a relatively new Archie Comics character. She is Veronica Lodge's famous cousin from out west. She is a clothing designer. She writes children's books. She writes an...
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Gay Proposal on "Let's Make A Deal"
I noticed this last week while I was away on vacation, but just got reminded about this exciting moment on “Let’s Make A Deal.” The game got paused for a second while one of the contestant proposed to...
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Inhuman Torch?? // Meet the Uncanny Inhumans!
Marvel Comics has been working over the past few years to make the Inhumans into something bigger than they had been. Basically, they don't have the rights to the X-Men when it comes to making movies...
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700 Club's Pat Robertson to Parent: Speak Out Against Your Son's Gay Marriage...
I was watching a clip from CBN's "700 Club"earlier this week and discovered a new segment called "Bring It On." Basically, people email questions to Pat Robertson and seek his answers. This segment...
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Who's the Best Dancing Star in Riverdale? Find Out in BETTY AND VERONICA...
This was a huge week for new comic books coming out of Archie Comics. I ended up getting three digests plus one regular comic book. And that's not even counting my Marvel Comics books and my online...
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Mum's the Word in ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #13!
I just finished reading ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #13, which features tons of classic reprints featuring Archie, Raj Patel, Little Archie, and Josie & the Pussycats! But it also begins...
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Gov. Mike Pence: "Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act Wasn't Meant to...
As anticipated, Indiana passed its controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law, signed and sealed by Gov. Mike Pence. And as anticipated, the shame of this new law has already proven...
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BBC's "Survivors" Turns 40 in April 2015!
Back in 2008, I watched a show on BBC America called "Survivors."It was a post-apocalyptic science fiction program that told about a small group of people who survived a fatal form of the flu. There...
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Not Cool: Various States/Cities Officially Boycotting Indiana Over RFRA
So there's the whole Indiana "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" and fall-thing thing going on. Remember that? (here and here) I'm already tired of hearing about it on the various radio programs and...
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Officer Hettinger Continues His Descent into Addiction and Corruption in THE...
I finally picked up my copy of THE BLACK HOOD #2, the first title in Archie Comics' new Dark Circle line of comic books. I really enjoyed issue #1. We met Officer Gregory Hettinger, a Pittsburgh cop...
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Indiana Pizza Joint: We Don't Cater at Gay Weddings
ABC 57 News out of Indiana did a story last night about a small-town pizza restaurant that wants same-sex couples to know that they won't cater your wedding parties:The O'Connor family, who owns...
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Indiana's Memories Pizza: Closed Following Anti-Gay TV Interview
I wrote about Memories Pizza earlier today. This is a small-town pizza restaurant somewhere in Indiana that decided to out themselves as a business that would refuse to cater at any hypothetical gay...
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Georgia Florist Refuses to Serve Gay Customers, but Is Fine with Adultereres...
Georgia is working on its own Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which people are seeing as a way to discriminate against LGBT people (and presumably others) under the name of religious liberty. Which...
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YouTuber Discovers Muslim-Owned Bakeries in Dearborn, MI, Who Refuse to Make...
This is the time within the whole Religious Freedom Restoration Act debate when media outlets are traveling around and testing various bakeries to see if they want deny services to gay people. CNN was...
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Iowa Celebrates Six Years of Marriage Equality!!
Six years ago today, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the state's DOMA law was unconstitutional and led to the legalization of same-sex marriage within the state of Iowa:Six years ago on April 3,...
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Fire Reported // Contained Last Night at the Iowa City Landfill & Recycling...
The Iowa City Fire Department was called out to the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center late last night to handle a trash fire. The fire was contained and smothered within about two hours.According...
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