Dakota O’Leary

'Pastafarians' clamor for representation in PA holiday display; wants to include pasta decorated tree

By Dakota O'Leary • November 29, 2012

The Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster has created a pasta decorated tree which it says it wants included in Philadelphia's annual holiday display. It

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Egyptian court sentences in absentia 7 Coptic Christians and US pastor Terry Jones to death over anti-Muslim film

By Dakota O'Leary • November 29, 2012

In a move that is being seen as largely symbolic, an Egyptian court sentenced to death in absentia 7 Coptic Christians and  US pastor

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State of Texas wants Warren Jeffs' ranch–issues seizure warrant

By Dakota O'Leary • November 29, 2012

The Attorney General's office of the State of Texas says that FLDS leader Warren Jeffs purchased his ranch in Texas to commit crimes.  In Texas,

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Michigan Republicans trying to pass law that would give tax breaks (i.e. personhood) to fetuses

By Dakota O'Leary • November 20, 2012

In Michigan, HB 5684 and HB 5685 are bills that would give tax breaks to fetuses.  Yes, to fetuses.   Under these bills, any

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Oklahoma judge sentences teen to church for ten years

By Dakota O'Leary • November 18, 2012

Tyler Alred was drinking and driving at 16, and he killed his friend when he crashed his pickup and his friend, John Luke Dum,

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This is Ireland: Young pregnant woman with septicemia denied abortion, dies

By Dakota O'Leary • November 14, 2012

This is Ireland.  A country with green and rolling landscape, where people are friendly and quaint cottages dot the countryside–where you can get a

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Earthquake hits Kentucky; felt as far as West Virginia, Cincinnati and Atlanta

By Dakota O'Leary • November 10, 2012

A 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit struck eight miles west of Whitesburg, Ky., this afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. There were no immediate reports of

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The newsfeed: What God's Own Party has been learning from the election: Be even more conservative, be more moderate; it's a tossup

By Dakota O'Leary • November 9, 2012

I love politics.  Nowhere else (except maybe for sports) can you find more drama, more competition, more free exchange of ideas than in politics.

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Pat Robertson doesn't know women and porn; embarrasses self and female co-host on 700 Club

By Dakota O'Leary • November 8, 2012

Pat Robertson is not a shy man. Shocked by the knowledge that a third of women are hooked on porn, when he wants the

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Herman Cain tells Bryan Fischer "We need to split the GOP and form a third party"

By Dakota O'Leary • November 8, 2012

Part of the fallout from the 2012 elections (after being stunned) is outright confusion and disarray on the part of  the GOP; Frank Rich

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There is no Democrat and Republican: We are all liberals

By Dakota O'Leary • November 5, 2012

  "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But everyone is not entitled to their own facts." –Senator Patrick Moynihan Nowhere has the above quote

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Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 4

By Dakota O'Leary • October 29, 2012

Now that we have been lulled into the idea that we lose an hour's sleep with the commencement of Daylight Saving Time in March,

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North Texas pastor Rev. Danny Kirk, Sr. attacked, killed

By Dakota O'Leary • October 29, 2012

An assailant attacked a North Texas Baptist church pastor after ramming a car into the wall of the church, chasing the pastor through the

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