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The Extremism of Bobby Jindal

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

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Jeff Schweitzer

In spite of evolution's unprecedented success in explaining the living world, creationism has crept into the mainstream of American thought and into public school curricula in several states.

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Some Sinful Links at Rick Warren's Updated Website

Lisa Derrick | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

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Lisa Derrick

While Saddleback Church removed several entries from its website, a not-so-gay-friendly manifesto is back up. This wasn't a removal of homophobia, but revisionism for PR purposes.

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From Sir, with Love

David Horton | Posted 12.13.2008 | Living

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David Horton

Call me naive if you must, but I see a teacher's role as being the central truth-teller in a child's life.

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The (Liberal) Faith of George W. Bush

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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Paul Raushenbush

George Bush revealed that his approach to the bible, evolution and to other religions has more in common with liberal protestants than with his fundamentalist political amen corner.

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And then god said, "Let there ... oh, you already have life"

David Horton | Posted 12.07.2008 | Living

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David Horton

It has been a failure of all us atheistical Darwinists intent on dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the 1860s, and out of the clutches of...

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A Fly in the Anointment: Bobby Jindal as the Republican Obama

Disgrasian | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

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Disgrasian

It's true! Jindal is young, brown, and the child of immigrants. Since we, too, are young, brown, and the children of immigrants, I guess that means we're voting for Jindal in 2012!

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Creationism: The Latest in Military Suicide Prevention

Chris Rodda | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion and the Military, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Military Suicide, Creationism, Rick Warren, Air Force, The Purpose Driven Life, Mikey Weinstein, Politics News
Chris Rodda

In March 2008... "A New Approach To Suicide Prevention: Developing Purpose-Driven Airmen," was shown... for an estimated 1,000 of Lakenheath's Air Force personnel.

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Lipstick on Doggerel

Evan Eisenberg | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

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Evan Eisenberg

I wrote this bit of doggerel a while ago but only just got around to making it hyperdoggerel by equipping the stanza numbers with links. (Warning: VI...

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Sarah Palin Answers the Dinosaur Question

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Matthew Filipowicz

The truth behind this is that we're all jealous of Sarah Palin. She reminds us of the naive innocence of childhood. Before we were burdened with horrible things like science and facts.

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Geology. Palinology.

David Horton | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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David Horton

Sarah Palin continues to behave like one of those old computer programs which simulated the appearance of being intelligent by partly repeating the qu...

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Why I Believe (Specifically) That Sarah Palin Is A Really, Really Bad Idea

Brad Listi | Posted 09.13.2008 | Home

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Brad Listi

Palin gives me the creeps the way Bush and Cheney give me the creeps. Similar ideology. Similar whiffs of God-fueled certainty, incompetence, callous indifference, culture war. But I can do better than that...

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While Storm Clouds Gather, Obama Must Get Busier

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

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Jackson Williams

Wailing about retro Palin's loony views on global warming or creationism will earn nods of approval in the fur-lined traps of Georgetown's elite salons. It will not, however, grab victory on November 4th.

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Plain Food, Please

Amy Ephron | Posted 09.08.2008 | Living

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Amy Ephron

We'd walked past it a couple of times, a simple storefront set back from the street with a small porch, a glimpse of tables inside, unassuming. The Key Lime Cafe. Full at lunch-time, we assumed it was a Maryland version of a diner.

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Seth Colter Walls

How To Understand Sarah Palin: The Issues, Not Biography

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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Who is Sarah Palin? The question itself is open-ended to such a degree that it primes the reader for a complex answer. But what if the explanation tu...

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Que Sarah, Sarah

Lloyd Garver | Posted 09.04.2008 | Home

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Lloyd Garver

Que Sarah, Sarah, Whatever she'll be, she'll be. At the beginning of the Republican convention week, a poll revealed that 41% of Americans surveyed s...

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Hey, Palin: Is My Family Off Limits, Too?

Rusty Russell | Posted 09.03.2008 | Home

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Rusty Russell

If Palin wants the public and press to leave her family alone, she should do the same for the American people. And yet, Palin supports government interfering with a family's private decisions about abortion, gay marriage and religious teachings.

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Top GOP VP Choices: Failed Business Leaders, Former Dems, Confirmed Bachelors and Creationists

Paul Jenkins | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

If you thought the Republican primary field was a bit of a joke, wait until you get a closer look at the front runners for the vice presidential slot.

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Unintelligent Design

Gary Marcus | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Gary Marcus

Lost amid all the recent discussions of intelligent design is one simple basic fact: the human species isn't intelligently designed.

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Top Republican VP Pick Jindal Lets Public Schools Teach Creationism

The Times Picayune | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Gov. Bobby Jindal attracted national attention and strongly worded advice about how he should deal with the Louisiana Science Education Act. Jindal i...

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Joining GOP's Bold March Backwards, Bobby Jindal and Louisiana Democrats Pass "Stealth Creationism" Education Bill

Bruce Wilson | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Bruce Wilson

Jindal has joined the GOP in its bold march backwards towards the days of when Medieval concepts such as Geocentrism, phlogistan and the "Four Humors" held sway.

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Screw the Evangelical Vote!

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Ian Gurvitz

How did this country become so colossally retarded? Sure, there will always be the lunatic fringe, but they belong on the fringe -- not playing host to presidential candidates.

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Jindal: Intelligent Design "The Very Best Science" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Governor, exorcist, and potential McCain running mate, was interviewed on CBS's Face The Nation on Father's Day. Among the top...

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Evolution Opponents' New Strategy: Teaching The "Strengths And Weaknesses" Of Evolution

New York Times | LAURA BEIL | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living

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Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the las...

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The Lost-Cause/Please Get Lost Hall of Fame

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Religion, Gluttony, Jenna Bush, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Prohibition, George W. Bush, Virginity, President Bush, The Green Party, Ralph Nader, 236.Com, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

With Hillary Clinton still "not making any decisions," she now joins a select group of causes and phenomena that just won't go away, no matter how much you wish they would.

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Animal crackers

David Horton | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

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David Horton

I was re-reading a book (Steve Jones "In the blood") the other day that I first read a decade ago. I came to two sentences that I had obviously read t...

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