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When educational budgets are cut -- which they are, every year -- inevitably what is hit the hardest are programs for the arts, music, theat...

September is Bisexual Awareness Month, which ironically I only became aware of on September 1. I guess I must have known that at some point,...

By now, I'm sure you've all heard that my former home state of Louisiana has passed a law requiring all public school teachers to po...

New from the "I Thought We Already Settled  This" department, we have: the West Virginia State Legislature has passed a bill , and...

From the Spectacular Backfire department, today we have: the guy who sponsored a bill to crack down on "pornographic and inappropriate...

Dear readers: I am going to take a long-overdue two-week break from writing here at Skeptophilia , so this will be my last post until Thursd...

If you needed another reason to be outraged at the direction the United States is going, a bill currently moving through the state congress ...

When I was in eleventh grade, I took a class called Modern American Literature. To say I was a lackluster English lit student is something o...

Did you hear the quote from Senator Brad Zaun, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee for the Iowa State Senate, a few days ago? There are thos...

Let me start out with a reality check: despite what the Religious Right and the pseudo-pundits on Fox News  want you to believe, there is no...