TagsTagsRight wing media and blogs have been ranting in unison for weeks about Occupy Wall Street, pulling out every dishonest smear tactic in the book and doing their best to discredit and destroy the movement. But it's not working: Poll: 43 percent agree with views of 'Occupy Wall Street'. Young and ...
Here's a good piece by Dana Goldstein on the Republican Party's shift toward the anti-government, anti-education agenda epitomized by Michele Bachmann: The GOP'S New War on Schools. Bachmann stands at the forefront of the GOP's shifting allegiances on education. Like many female elected officials before her, she first got involved ...
Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), rising star of the 2012 GOP presidential contest, absolutely epitomizes the anti-science, theocratic wing of today's Republican Party. Not only does she totally reject the voluminous scientific evidence for climate change, she's also an open, unapologetic creationist. And she doesn't just want to teach creationism to her Quiverfull ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Michele Bachmann
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is suddenly dodging the question of whether he's a creationist. And the reason is no mystery. If he's considering a run for the GOP nomination and he doesn't personally believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, it's vital for him to avoid the question -- because ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Chris Christie
Across the country, Republicans in state and local governments are pushing hard to destroy environmental protections, destroy women's rights, prevent gays from having rights, destroy unions, destroy child labor laws, etc. etc. etc. There's a parade of right wing atavism going on, the likes of which I've never seen. And as ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, North Carolina
Tennessee is a very active front (but not the only one by a long shot) in the Republican Party's all-out war against science. As we noted last week, Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives passed an absurd anti-evolution bill deceptively labeled as "academic freedom" -- the latest tactic of ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Tennessee, Albert Einstein
Voters in Florida are experiencing buyer's remorse, as they find out what their Tea Party Governor is really all about: crippling the state's public schools. In other words, a very typical teabagger's agenda. Only three months removed from Governor Rick Scott's (R) inauguration, a majority of Florida voters now say ...
While everyone's attention was focused on Washington DC last week, Republicans in Tennessee's House of Representatives passed a bill that will shield science teachers from being disciplined if they're creationists or global warming deniers. The Republican Party: protecting ignorance and destroying America's scientific future. Some quotes from the Neanderthals who pushed this ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Tennessee, Global Warming
The religious fanatics on the Texas State Board of Education are gearing up for another fundamentalist hoedown, as Chairwoman Gail Lowe tries to stack the panel that will review the state's science curriculum with creationist loons. Lowe has nominated more potential panelists than any other board member. And a number ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Texas, Gail Lowe
In addition to all the other wonderful things Republicans have been doing lately (union-busting, misogynistic anti-abortion legislation, tax breaks for the richest, keeping gays down), they've also introduced a record number of bills that promote the teaching of creationism in science classes as a valid alternative to evolution. Sometimes these ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education, Atavism
In March 2009, Florida Republican science denier Sen. Stephen Wise introduced an anti-evolution bill that quickly died in the legislature for lack of support. This year, though, after the influx of far right anti-science Tea Party candidates in 2010, Wise thinks his attempt to sneak creationism into public school science classes ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education
What the GOP is doing since taking over the House of Representatives: [Item List] And now, we can add: [Item List] Record Number of Stealth Creationism Bills Introduced in 2011.
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education
At Townhall.com (home of the execrable Pat Buchanan and a host of other deranged throwbacks), we find religious fanatic Terry Jeffrey (editor-in-chief of the religious right propaganda site CNS News) openly calling for the destruction of the public school system: Do Wisconsin's Public Schools Deserve to Survive? With the entire ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Far Right, Education, Public Schools, Fanaticism
A survey by Science magazine reveals a very serious problem in American science education; a majority of biology teachers shy away from teaching the scientific theory of evolution, while a sizable minority are unashamed creationists. Researchers found that only 28 percent of biology teachers consistently follow the recommendations of the ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Education
Remember John Freshwater -- the fanatic creationist Ohio "science teacher" who got in trouble for branding a cross into a student's arm with a high-voltage device? Two years later, Freshwater has finally been fired from his job -- a job he never should have been given in the first place. On ...
In this political silly season, the Republican Party has been developing a new talking point intended to help sneak creationism into public schools; they're trying to hitch a ride on the Tea Party's "limited government" bandwagon, and pushing the idea that local schools should be able to teach creationism if ...
Evolution, Creationism, Education, Illinois, Bill Brady, Randy Hultgren, Anti-Science, Republican Party, GOP
In Israel, the Education Ministry has fired chief scientist Dr. Gavriel Avital, a global warming denier and young earth creationist. Kudos! Letting someone like this be in charge of children's education is a recipe for ignorance and failure. If only Texas could figure that out. Sources familiar with the affair said ...
Evolution, Creationism, Education, Israel, Global Warming, Deniers
When the false claims about her education posted at LinkedIn were discovered, GOP anti-wanking candidate Christine O'Donnell said the information was posted by someone else. Unfortunately for O'Donnell's rather transparent attempt to cover up a lie with another lie, now another site has surfaced where the same claims were posted -- ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
Now Christine O'Donnell is claiming that the misleading information about her education was posted at LinkedIn by someone else. She doesn't know who. Just somebody who happened to know her education record well enough to embellish it. Wonder who it could have been? O'Donnell's statement, sent from the DC-area Shirley ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
Wow. Another false claim has been discovered on Christine O'Donnell's education resumé: Christine O'Donnell Lies About Attending Claremont Graduate University. A new report late tonight suggests O'Donnell did not attend Claremont Graduate University as she indicated. Gary Scott, a radio producer in Los Angeles and longtime political reporter and editor, uncovered ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
The GOP's anti-wanking, anti-evolution candidate in Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, has been caught in another "embellishment" of her education record; her bio claims she attended the University of Oxford, but as Greg Sargent details, the truth is she attended one course from an organization called the Phoenix Institute, that rented space ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
An excellent talk at TED by Michael Specter on the danger of science denial. [Video]
Denial, Science, Education, Global Warming, Vaccines, Reason
The New York Times has a disturbing article about the far right conservatives in charge of the Texas State Board of Education, and their outrageous attempt to manipulate curriculum development and textbook production for public schools. The social conservatives appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry (including infamous young earth creationist Don ...
History, Education, Don McLeroy, Texas, Right Wing, Propaganda, Anti-Science, Creationism, Evolution, Religious Right
Here’s an excellent article at Washington Monthly by Mariah Blake, showing how the atavistic GOP creationist agenda has a direct and highly deleterious effect on education in the United States: Revisionaries. Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, discovery institute, Propaganda, Right Wing, Texas, Don McLeroy, Education
They laid low for more than a year, waiting for attention to go elsewhere, but the Louisiana Family Forum and right wing Republican legislators are now poised to use Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill to sneak the teaching of this anti-science doctrine into public ...
Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Education, Anti-Science