Nick Fish
President of @AmericanAtheist. Adopted. Forever a Midwesterner (🏡✋). Decent cook, annoyingly infrequent hiker, and expert campfire builder. he/him
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MAGA scrambles to repair the Hunter Biden narrative
Instead of publishing the more salacious allegations, conservative media has been more focused on covering alleged suppression of the story.
Trump Fans Left Stranded In The Cold For Hours After Omaha Rally
Many Trump supporters, including a number of elderly fans, were stranded in the cold on Tuesday night for hours after...
How to Accommodate a Massive Surge in Absentee Voting
A surge in absentee voting is inevitable. Here are five steps to make sure the election still works.
American Atheists’ Statement on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett | American Atheists
In response to the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Nick Fish, president of American Atheists, released the following statement: With today’s vote, the Senate elevated Christian privilege and ideological bias above equality...
Trump Wants COVID-19 Media Coverage To Be Illegal: 'Should Be An Election Law Violation'
President Donald Trump argued on Monday morning that it ought to be against the law for the news media to...
WSJ News Exclusive | Health Agency Scraps Coronavirus Ad Campaign, Leaving Santa Claus in the Cold
A federal health agency halted a public-service coronavirus advertising campaign funded by $250 million in taxpayer money after it offered a special vaccine deal to an unusual set of essential workers: Santa Claus performers.
There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’
With testing, treatments and vaccine trials ramping up, we are far better off than the media report.
State Welfare Spending and Religiosity: A Cross-National Analysis - Anthony Gill, Erik Lundsgaarde, 2004
What accounts for cross-national variation in religiosity as measured by church attendance and non-religious rates? Examining answers from both secularization t...
Nick Fish
I'm reminded of a study from 2004 about religiosity and welfare spending by Anthony Gill and Erik Lundsgaarde. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… pic.twitter.com/YtRie36oqT
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Ivanka, Jared: Don’t blame us on Times Square billboards for Trump administration COVID-19 death toll — we’ll sue
Trump and Kushner on Friday threatened to sue The Lincoln Project, a Republican group that is using Times Square billboards to taunt them over the COVID-19 death toll.
'Boogaloo Bois' member charged in attack on Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protests
A member of the 'Boogaloo Bois' was charged with participating in a riot after he allegedly shot 13 rounds into a Minneapolis police building during May's protests.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump, confirmed a Presbyterian, now identifies as ‘non-denominational Christian’
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A rare exchange about religion-related matters with a president who, while allying closely with evangelical Christian leaders, has spoken little about his own faith.
Adventist School in Florida Fires Gay Teacher Despite Accepting Taxpayer Dollars
This is despicable behavior by school officials.
New poll shows support for marriage equality reaching an all-time high
Polling data from the American Values Survey shows that 70% of all Americans, of all stripes, support allowing same-sex couples to wed.
How Amy Coney Barrett could change the Supreme Court’s balance on religious liberty
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Micah Schwartzman, a professor at University of Virginia School of Law, said Barrett could end up furthering an understanding of the First Amendment he finds ‘quite disturbing.’
2020 Election Live Updates: After Final Debate, Campaigns Enter Homestretch
Joe Biden and President Trump clashed over race, the environment, taxes, the coronavirus and foreign policy. Trump will campaign in Florida on Friday, and Biden will give a speech in Delaware about the pandemic.
Hunter Biden’s Ex-Business Partner Alleges Father Knew About Venture
An ex-business partner of Hunter Biden said he consulted his father about a planned venture with a Chinese oil company. Joe Biden denied any involvement in the venture and corporate records reviewed by The Journal show no role for him.
Pope's civil union comments appear to be taken out of context
Analysis of a clip in a new documentary in which Pope Francis expresses support for civil union laws for same-sex couples appears to indicate some of the pontiff's words came from an earlier interview...
Opinion: The Supreme Court just restored another piece of Obamacare — years too late
What Sen. Marco Rubio and company did here is outrageous, and it's gratifying to see the Supreme Court justices push back.
Nick Fish
Rubio railing against reinsurance and risk corridors, for example, as giveaways to insurance companies. It was! Giveaways that reduced overall pricing for consumers!
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Statement on the Declarations of Pope Francis Regarding Civil Unions – Cardinal Raymond Burke
It is a source of deepest sadness and pressing pastoral concern that the private opinions reported with so much emphasis by the press and attributed to Pope Francis do not correspond to the constant teaching of the Church.
Former Classmates of Republican Star Madison Cawthorn Detail a Pattern of 'Predatory Behavior' Towards Women
In August, Katrina Krulikas wrote in an Instagram post that Madison Cawthorn, the 25-year-old rising Republican star and candidate for Congress in western North Carolina, had forcibly kissed her without her consent. She was 17 and he was 19. As she...