Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:45:53 am
In a thuggish attempt at intimidation, the Wisconsin Republican Party has launched a legal effort to gain access to all of the emails written by UW-Madison history professor William Cronon, after he wrote a blog post titled "Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere?" and an op-ed ...

Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:11:15 pm
Sarah Palin's on one of her rare trips outside the US, and told a reporter for India Today that the reason why the Republican ticket failed to win in 2008 was because she wasn't at the top. Speaking at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi, Palin was asked why ...

Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:17:52 pm
My post yesterday about House Republicans voting against reality prompted a reader in Salt Lake City to fire up Internet Explorer 9 and use our contact form to communicate his carefully considered opinions about my criticisms of GOP climate change denial. (Warning: profanities left intact to preserve the full aroma.) At ...

Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:30:18 pm
If you had any remaining doubt that the Republican Party has become the party of science denial, today's vote in the House should settle the matter for good: House GOP rejects amendments that say climate change is real. Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) offered an amendment Tuesday that ...

Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:36:34 pm
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.

Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:38:06 pm
On February 18, the Department of Commerce released the results of yet another independent investigation into the "Climategate" nontroversy, and again (as in the previous four investigations by various agencies) the climate scientists involved were totally cleared of wrongdoing. The latest redundant investigation was requested by arch climate denier Sen. James ...

Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:28:55 pm
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday in a speech at West Point that getting into any more wars like Iraq or Afghanistan would be crazy. WEST POINT, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for ...

Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:12:51 pm
Peter Sinclair's newest is a look at how climate change deniers distort and misrepresent the climatic evidence from Antarctic ice cores, by falsely comparing them to Greenland ice records. I mean absolutely no disrespect to Dr. Richard Alley and his groundbreaking work, but I'd be remiss if I didn't note his ...

Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:28:21 am
Ezra Klein cuts through the noise and tells you what is actually being proposed in Wisconsin -- and the bottom line is simple. Gov. Scott Walker isn't only proposing to reign in the salaries of government workers; he's staging an attack on the very existence of labor unions. The best ...

Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:50:18 am
The Los Angeles Times has a very good piece on the far right ultra-wealthy Koch Brothers, and their powerful influence on the Republican Party's major push to crush climate change legislation and hamstring the Environmental Protection Agency. Wichita-based Koch Industries and its employees formed the largest single oil and gas ...

Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:53:43 am
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair's latest video looks at the evidence of long term climate change gleaned from studying Antarctic ice cores, and how this historical evidence backs up climate scientists' conclusions about the radical climate changes introduced by human production of CO2.

Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:23:00 pm
Republican Thomas A. Anderson has introduced a bill to the New Mexico House of Representatives that will shield teachers who indoctrinate children with creationism and climate change denial. House Bill 302, as it’s called, states that public school teachers who want to teach “scientific weaknesses” about “controversial scientific topics” including ...

Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:07:21 pm
In the midst of a discussion about right wing denial of climate change, Bill Maher asks Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) directly, "Do you believe in evolution?" Kingston answers, "I believe I came from God, not from a monkey, so the answer is no." And, "I don't believe a creature crawled out of ...

Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:52:41 am
Former feckless International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei is making a play to assume power in Egypt, and on his arrival today in Cairo he was mobbed by reporters -- but not supporters. Cairo - Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Cairo Thursday, talking of 'change' as the ...

Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:35:14 am
I'm glad to see that my reply to Patterico's incredibly dishonest post has gotten more than 650 retweets since I wrote it yesterday. Thanks to everyone who helped get it out there; these kinds of lies shouldn't be allowed to stand, especially when the intent is to defend something like ...

Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:04:02 am
In our third story of the day about the Republican Party's big push to destroy America's ability to deal with climate change, Climate Science Watch's Alexa Jay reports that the GOP is also attempting to de-fund the CIA's climate monitoring and analysis program. The CIA Center on Climate Change and ...

Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:32:48 am
The Republican Party isn't only planning to block climate change rules put into effect by the Obama administration; they're also targeting the 40-year old Clean Air Act. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) thinks that some dirty air is okay and is not afraid to say so. In a recent interview with National ...

Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:28:53 am
You'll never see a more blatant expression of the Republican Party's servitude to the energy industries than this. No, the title is not an exaggeration. Top staff members for key House and Senate Republicans met in a closed-door session Tuesday with energy industry interests to work on strategy to handcuff ...

Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:02:11 pm
One of the most irritatingly absurd and dishonest talking points that quickly emerged from the right wing's loonier blogs after Sheriff Clarence Dupnik's brave statement calling out the climate of extremist rhetoric is that Sheriff Dupnik himself is to blame for the mass murder. As usual these days, what starts in ...

Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:24:05 pm
The New York Times has some details from the federal complaint filed against Jared Lee Loughner, showing clear evidence of premeditation. In a search of Mr. Loughner's home, authorities found a note in a safe with a handwritten note saying, "I planned ahead," "My assassination," and "Giffords," as well as ...

Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:58:27 pm
The audio gets out of sync, but Isaac Asimov's words of warning from 1989 are chilling, 22 years later, with a Republican House that just killed the committee devoted to climate change and energy issues. (h/t Peter Sinclair.) [Video]

Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:45:09 pm
Bill O'Reilly doesn't understand how the sun rises and sets, or how the tides go in and out, and I have a feeling not even Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation will change that. [Video]

Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:52:58 am
In the latest bail-out from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the far-right creationist climate change denial organization known as the Heritage Foundation is joining the fundamentalist groups who are afraid of gay cooties. Similar to last year’s CPAC, more than a half dozen groups say they won’t attend the ...

Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:56:03 pm
A reminder that in some parts of the world, "theocracy" is not just the fervent desire of fanatics -- it's the dominant paradigm: Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy Law. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A crippling strike by Islamist parties brought Pakistan to a standstill on Friday as thousands of people ...

Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:43:23 am
Fox News continues promoting anti-science rubbish to the rubes, with an article about Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts. What do you notice about these "botched forecasts?" The most recent one they could find dates back to 2000, and all the others are much older. Here are the dates of these 8 "mistaken" ...