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Violent Video Games Reduce Violent Crime

With the recent shooting at a school in Newtown Connecticut and the shooting in Aurora Colorado violent video games are in the news again. The old men in the old media are blaming violent video games as they always do when a shooting hits the national news.

Violent video games have been the target of old media and conservatives for years. They will spout dubious studies and claim there is a link. They will blame any act of violence on violent video games even if the perpetrator never…

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Added by Lone Wolf on December 21, 2012 at 10:32pm — 1 Comment

It's All About the Guns.......again

The recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut is one of the most horrible in recent memory.  The actions of that young man were as incomprehensible as they were inexcusable and we as a country need to learn from what happened to better protect ourselves and our children.  What is even more inexcusable and, in my mind just as disgusting, is the way gun control advocates use this tragedy to support their agenda.  

As the details unfold we are starting to see there was a lot of anger and…

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Added by Richard Lawrence on December 19, 2012 at 3:03pm — 13 Comments

How the Grinch Stole the Dignity of Every Non-Christian

by mr dan

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All the Christians in Christ-town found Christmas quite fair,

But the non-Christians, who made up two-thirds of the world’s population, didn’t care.

Now they didn’t hate Christmas at all — au contraire

They just wanted the Christians to stay out of their hair.

 

They wanted to know if there was any sane…

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Added by Dan Xenatro on December 16, 2010 at 5:30am — 3 Comments

Be Good For Goodness' Sake

Holy cow — the atheists are proselytizing! I unveil Connecticut Valley Atheists' latest offering to the Vernon Green and demonstrate how the myths of religion and Santa Claus teach believers to behave in order to earn a reward, while atheism offers the only path to true, unrewarded morality in this week's CVA Vlog.…


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Added by Dan Xenatro on December 7, 2010 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment

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