I’m playing catch up here tonight, with a post about Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan.
I had hoped to get on the conference call this morning and listen to the speech and press briefing after, but this is a busy week for me (more on that in the next day or so). I have spent some [...]
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DeVos and Granholm Differ on Intelligent Design
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Cross Posted from Liberal Values
As someone who goes to Walt Disney World virtually every year I see nothing wrong with the fact that 77% of Americans can identify two of Snow White’s dwarfs. I even have many of their autographs. I am bothered, but not surprised, that only 24% could identify two Supreme Court justices. [...]
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The New York Times reports on efforts in Kansas to resume teaching of established science:
God and Charles Darwin are not on the primary ballot in Kansas on Tuesday, but once again a contentious schools election has religion and science at odds in a state that has restaged a three-quarter-century battle over the teaching of evolution.
Less [...]
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Back in December I had a post entitled Conservatives Against Intelligent Design noting that not all conservatives buy this crap. Apparently this was found on a google search and a comment was added just today noting the development of a web site by this name. This is from their home page:
Conservatives Against Intelligent Design [...]
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Today, John Kerry spoke to students at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, delivering their commencement address. Thanks to record student voter participation, Kenyon College was among the last polling places in the nation to close on Election Day 2004.
NOTE: Kenyon will also feature a live webcast of Kerry’s remarks on their [...]
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Following is from a May 11 speech in New York by Patricia Princehouse, as she accepted a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award from the Playboy Foundation for her efforts to preserve science education in Ohio public schools. The Nation has the full text.
If you can lie about science and get away with it, you [...]
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If you’re not into Tinfoil Hat Contests, perhaps you’d enjoy Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. This is a humorous documentary on evolution and intelligent design premiering at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.
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This the collaboration between Fox News and the Bush White House becoming more official, the Democratic National Commitee warns that we will be getting another “Snow job.” From their press release:
Today, the Bush Administration announced that conservative news personality Tony Snow will replace Scott McClellan as the White House Press Secretary. This move signals that [...]
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A few months ago we found from the stat counter that we had a reader from the CIA. It looks like we aren’t the only blog the CIA is looking at. The Washington Times reports that the CIA mines ‘rich’ content from blogs:
President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such [...]
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This is Helen Thomas’ advice today. McCain, while easily appearing reasonable when compared to George Bush, was never the moderate which the media made him out to be. McCain is a masterful politician. He knows that the Republicans will most likely nominate someone seen as the obvious establishment leader of the party, not an outsider. [...]
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I wouldn’t really pretend to diagnose someone without seeing them, but at least we might do for fun what Bill Frist thought he could really do. So today we will play a new game I’d like to call “Does John McCain Have Alzheimer’s?”
Let’s look at the signs and see if they add up.
Is [...]
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Right wingers are going to have yet another reason to hate Hollywood. Cinematical reports that Paramount is planning an Inherit the Wind type movie on the Dover court decision that teachers could not be forced to teach intelligent design in the class room.
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DarkSyde shows the down side of dealing with proponents of creationism/intelligent design:
Like the rainmakers and healers that came before them, the creationists arrive in town wrapped in the Bible and put on a dazzling show. They dutifully hit all the churches and revivals–often times with the pastor and elders acting as unwitting accomplices, nodding and [...]
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Pat Robertson says that that Islam is not a religion of peace, and that radical Muslims are “satanic.” This is similar a statement he made in 2002 that Islam “is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy.”
Previously Pat Robertson [...]
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