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Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill is starting to bear rancid fruit, as the state’s top school board approves new rules intended to make it difficult for residents to challenge the teaching of creationism in science classes. Pseudo-science promoted by ignorant religious fanatics takes another ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Louisiana
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who signed into law an “academic freedom” bill intended to sneak the teaching of creationism into Louisiana schools, has been using state-funded helicopters to fly him to church on Sundays: Governor’s Sunday helicopter travels have come at taxpayers’ expense. On Father’s Day this year, Gov. ...
Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-Minnesota) is being touted as a frontrunner for the 2012 presidential election, and today it was announced that he’ll be a featured speaker at the Republican National Committee meeting in San Diego. Gov. Tim Pawlenty will address members of the Republican National Committee July 30 in ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty
A new survey of Louisiana residents shows that only 39% believe that the theory of evolution is supported by scientific evidence. And that’s just sad. But even sadder, in a pathetically ironic way: Bobby Jindal’s wife has started a foundation to promote science education in Louisiana. Among those ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
A Republican candidate endorsed by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has lost big. Baton Rouge lawyer Dan Claitor beat businessman and fellow Republican Lee Domingue — the candidate with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s backing — to win the state Senate District 16 seat in Saturday’s special election. Claitor garnered 11,713 or ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
The bizarre GOP talking point of the day is that there’s nothing wrong with wanting Barack Obama to fail. This is so wrong-headed and self-defeating I don’t even know where to start. Criticize him, show where he’s wrong, point out the flaws in his policies, even mock the guy for ...
When Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal took a cheap shot at the volcano monitoring program, I winced. Just what we need, another ignorant anti-science comment from a Republican spokesperson—and on top of it, this came from a spokesperson who promoted and signed a stealth creationism bill. Less than a month later ...
Here’s Governor Bobby Jindal interviewed by Morley Safer on 60 Minutes: [Video] (Hat tip: Hot Air.)
Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, GOP, Republican Party, CBS News, 60 Minutes
An interview with Richard Wunderman, volcanologist and museum specialist for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History: Science Club: Rick Wunderman. DCist: As I’m sure you’ve heard, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, in his response to President Barack Obama’s congressional address, singled out a $140 million appropriation for the ...
Barack Obama, SOTU, Speech, Economy, Bobby Jindal, Volcano Monitoring
Apparently there is a significant faction of hidebound GOP spokesmen who believe that criticizers of Bobby Jindal must be cast into the outer darkness: Rush: If you think Jindal reeked last night, I don’t want to hear from you again.
Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, Creationism, Evolution, GOP, social conservatism
At The Volcanism Blog (you knew there had to be one!), they’re not too happy about Governor Bobby Jindal’s “volcano monitoring” slam: Something called ‘volcano monitoring’. The Volcanism Blog does not do politics, any more than it does sport, religion or cookery. In particular, as a blog born and ...
Barack Obama, SOTU, Speech, Economy, Bobby Jindal, Volcano Monitoring
Byron York just got off the phone... I just got off the phone with a very plugged-in Republican strategist who told me that Republican reaction to President Obama’s speech, which the party will roll out in the next few days, will mark the beginning of a new GOP approach ...
Here are some quotes from conservatives reviewing The Two Speeches. On President Obama: Sen. John McCain told a CBS Web cast: “The president gave a very effective speech. I think it was a balance between the size and enormity of the challenges we face, but also an expression of ...
A second thread for Governor Bobby Jindal’s answer to the Obama love fest we just witnessed. UPDATE at 2/24/09 7:39:05 pm: I’ll bet the volcanologists aren’t happy after that. Jindal threw “volcano monitoring” under the bus. You guys in the Pacific Northwest — no “bailouts” for you! It was probably ...
Next up in the squared circle, Bobby Jindal’s response to the President’s non-SOTU...
Randy Barnett follows up his post on the appalling prevalence of creationists in the GOP, with a point I’ve also been hammering over and over: Defining “Creationism” Down. If your favorite candidate is on record favoring creationism as science to be taught in government schools, he or she has ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Mark Sanford
For reference, I’m not the only blogger who believes that the GOP’s association with creationism is one of the factors that caused massive losses in the last two elections; Randy Barnett at the Volokh Conspiracy: This is Not Good. And since there are so many people who insist on denying ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Mark Sanford
Here’s an Associated Press article on three Republican governors who are being looked at as front runners in the 2012 presidential election: Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty, and Bobby Jindal. All creationists. Mark Sanford: Newswatch * WIS * TV * January 29, 2006 Host: David Stanton Guest: Gov. Mark Sanford ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Mark Sanford
This morning Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was on Meet the Press, and despite the fact that David Gregory’s call for questions on his blog resulted in many suggestions that Gregory ask Jindal about his support for creationism and his other extreme social conservative positions, there wasn’t a single question from ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is on Meet the Press this Sunday; David Gregory has a post on his blog asking for questions: The View From Here: I need YOUR thoughts on Jindal. (Hat tip: Cronus.) Thinking about the interview with Governor Bobby Jindal Sunday. He’s thought to be a ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
As we noted last Saturday, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, a major scientific organization, is boycotting Louisiana for its 2011 convention, in protest of Governor Bobby Jindal’s promotion and signing of a stealth creationism bill. The New Orleans Times-Picayune has more on the story: National science group boycotting ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal promoted and signed into law a stealth creationism bill that will allow the teaching of “intelligent design” in the science classrooms of Louisiana public schools, and now the fallout has begun. One of America’s leading scientific organizations, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, has announced ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
One of the prime objectives of the anti-evolution Discovery Institute is to influence what’s taught in public schools, and this involves influencing the textbooks used in biology classes. For years, one of the successes of the creationist movement was that some school districts selected an infamous book titled Of Pandas ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, dover, Explore Evolution