TagsTagsCreationism, that zombie of the American political scene, rises again -- this time in Indiana: An Indiana Senate committee on Wednesday endorsed teaching creationism in public schools, despite pleas from scientists and religious leaders to keep religion out of science classrooms. Senate Bill 89 allows school corporations to authorize "the teaching ...
Engineer/blogger Robert Rapier writes about the fantasy that many prominent Republican leaders promote, and which much of the GOP base accepts blindly, with respect to petroleum production and the US: [...] On the Republican side, the common view is that we are awash in oil and gas, if only the environmentalists ...
Perhaps we have become so numb to the political circus by now that we don't notice the extreme, but the Saturday November 19th GOP Presidential candidate Thanksgiving Family Forum (not really a "debate") in Iowa was more about religious identity than anything to do with Presidential responsibilities or the practice ...
Family Leader, Vander Plaats, GOP, Iowa, Theocracy, Pew, Patriarchy, Paul, Santorum, Christian Reconstructionism
I'm a little jealous of Jon Huntsman; he's sittin' at home chillin' to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, watching the debate with the sound off.
Republican Party, GOP, Debate, Las Vegas, Wooly, Turgid Wingnut Gabfests
Coming to us tonight from wild, wooly Las Vegas, the decidedly un-wild and un-wooly GOP presidential candidates' debate. Yes, another one. They're going to keep inflicting these turgid wingnut gabfests on us until we scream for mercy. And still there'll be more. I haven't discovered a live video stream for this ...
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If there's one right wing event that sums up the reasons why I ran screaming away from these lunatics more than any other, it's the Values Voter Summit, put on every year by a devil's brew of extreme religious fanatics preaching virulent hatred against everyone who isn't them. At the Values ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness, Family Research Council, Values Voter Summit, Tony Perkins, Fanaticism, Mitt Romney, Bigotry, Robert Jeffress
At the GOP debate in Orlando, a moment that perfectly captures the essence of today's Republican Party, in which the best seats in the house are occupied by grown men playing dress-up.
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Ron Paul's "let 'em die" health plan wasn't the only appalling moment in last night's debate. Not by a long shot. Here we see the audience booing Ron Paul for saying "the whole Muslim world" was not responsible for 9/11. (Preceded by the usual "they hate our American exceptionalism" incantations from ...
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A memorable moment from tonight's GOP debate: thunderous applause for Ron Paul's call to let people without private health insurance die.
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The Republican Party's best and brightest continue to astound, as we enter the third thread of the night...
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Our favorite line of the night so far is from Mitt Romney: If you need a turn-around, that's what I do. We know. Like Romney's turn-around on abortion, or his turn-around on climate change, or his turn-around on health care. If there's one skill Mitt Romney possesses, it's the art of ...
Turn-Around, Right Wing, Tea Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Debate, Republican Party
CNN.com has live streaming video of the teafest in Tampa (unfortunately not embeddable); it's beginning in just a couple of minutes...
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If you believe the media stories about it, we're in for a real "slugfest" tonight at the CNN/Teabagger Republican Debate: Five things to watch for in CNN/Tea Party Republican debate. Round two of the Perry-Romney slugfest? It started in Wednesday's debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, ...
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House Republicans are going to continue obstructing absolutely everything President Obama proposes -- even on issues Republicans have supported previously. They have two motivations: 1) avoiding blame, and 2) winning a scorched earth battle against Barack Obama at all costs. Doing something positive about the US economy isn't even on their radar. ...
President Obama, Economy, Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Bad Craziness
Climate change denial websites immediately jumped all over a recent paper from the CERN CLOUD project, about the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. I knew they had jumped, actually, before I even read "Watts Up With That" or any of the other blogs dedicated to discrediting climate science, because ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, CERN, Cosmic Rays
The National Science Foundation has concluded yet another investigation into the work of climate scientist Michael Mann (creator of the famous "hockey stick" temperature graph you see above), whose research and personal character have been targeted in a years-long, relentless smear campaign by energy industry front groups and the right ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Michael Mann
The world's plants and animals are migrating as the climate changes. “The more warming there’s been in an area, the more you would expect a species to move, and the more they have moved,” said Chris D. Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of York in England, who led ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
Steve Benen makes a good point here, about Rick Perry's statement that "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools:" Perry may have no idea what goes on in Texas’ public schools, but if they’re teaching “both creationism and evolution,” they’re violating the law. It’s not ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Texas
This needs to get much more attention: Rick Perry is the most overt creationist in a political party that's completely dominated by a crazed rejection of science. Here he is in New Hampshire, telling a young boy that evolution is just "another theory that's out there," and "in Texas, we teach ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Texas
We've been noticing this disturbing development on the right wing for quite a while, and today the New York Times has a piece on the Republican Party's deranged attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota wants to padlock the E.P.A.’s doors, as does former Speaker Newt ...
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(Credit: Gus 802.)At LGF we've been following the career of Texas Governor Rick Perry for years, often focusing on one of his "achievements" that has so far mostly eluded the mainstream media: Perry is undoubtedly the most determined, persistent, and outrageously overt creationist in the Republican Party, and arguably one ...
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Of all the absurd and disturbing moments in last night's Republican debate, this may have been the most revealing: when Bret Baier asked the candidates, "Say you had a deal, a real spending cuts deal, 10 to 1, as Byron said, spending cuts to tax increases. Who on this stage ...
Here's another thread for the GOP's Iowa debate, since the previous thread is filling up fast...
Eight Republicans -- yes, even Newt Gingrich and His Amazing Collapsing Campaign! -- will square off tonight in Ames, Iowa, so here's a thread for the occasion. The Kook Quotient will be soaring, because in addition to the other right wing candidates, Crazy Uncle Ron Paul will be present. I'm ...