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- From Doubtful to Alarmed – The Evolution Of My Views On Climate Change 6/9/13
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- Good Critical Thinking Skills Exercise
- Third Saturday - TBA
- Fourth Sunday - Video and discussion
- Good Critical Thinking Skills Exercise
- Third Saturday - TBA
Tag Archives: politics
Our science and technology reps.
Yet another reason to laugh or cry, or maybe both, at our congressional representatives. Not only is Georgia Republican Paul Broun, a physician and member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, a skeptic about evolution, he also has doubts about embryology … Continue reading
For Santorum, faith and reason are benchmarks for politics
Rick Santorum was on the radio this morning talking about how he uses both reason and faith to make decisions. Apparently that sounds good to some people, but I’m not one of them. So I looked up the definitions to … Continue reading
A Rational Response
Here’s a link to the FactCheck.org story about Michelle Bachmann’s comments linking the HPV vaccine to mental retardation. FactCheck does a good job of policing political speech for misleading or exaggerated claims as well as outright lies. However, I don’t usually see … Continue reading
Free Speech
I don’t like what they say. But then again, I don’t like much of what most churches say. of course I’m talking about the Phelps’ of Westboro Baptist Church. They just won a Supreme Court decision that affirmed their first … Continue reading
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Race
I just read two interesting and totally unrelated articles about race. The first one is an interview of Ohio State Professor Michelle Alexander in the Sun Magazine. The article was about her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the … Continue reading
Apportionment
We had an interesting discussion at the RSSL holiday party last Saturday. See, you can always learn something new at the RSSL, even at the parties. The subject was apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives. This is not something … Continue reading
No Labels
Here is an interesting new political movement that emphasizes moderation and cooperation over extremism and partisanship. I don’t know how much traction the No Labels movement will get, but it seems like a great idea in a world of polarizing … Continue reading
Democrats criticized Supreme Court Nominee for being agnostic
Ed BraytonEd reports via The Slates William Saletan that President Reagans Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork may have been an agnostic. More interesting, though, is that Democrats used Borks weak religious views to discredit him. William Saletan: In July 1987, … Continue reading
