Republican Candidates vs. Evolution

3 of the current Republican Candidates for President don’t believe in evolution. One of them, Mike Huckabee, is ever becoming a major contestant.
A little while back, The Proletariat had an interesting post that discussed Darwinism, evolution, Marxism, and Religion on his blog in response to an article in the Journal of International Socialist Review [...]

Obama on America

In a recent speech:
At this defining moment, we cannot wait any longer for universal health care.  We cannot wait to fix our schools.  We cannot wait for good jobs, and living wages, and pensions we can count on.  We cannot wait to halt global warming, and we cannot wait to end this war in Iraq.
I [...]

Bhutto Shot Dead in Pakistan: The End of Democracy

Yet again Pakistan proves that it is a bastion of terrorism and extremism. The assasination of Benazir Bhutto is an attack on Democracy itself. You don’t kill your political enemies, you vote against them.
EDIT:  And President Bush has done everything in his power to keep it that way.

2007 Year in Review

At Blue Oregon.  Here’s a highlight of what our Oregon Government did this year:

Established a rainy-day fund,
Secured an 18% increase on K-12 spending and 22% for universities,
Expanded the bottle bill to include water bottles,
Created a domestic partnership law,
Established workplace non-descrimination for sexual orientation,
Capped payday loans at 36%,
Created a 25% renewable energy standard by 2025,
Guaranteed [...]

Hillary is the Wonkyist!

She still leads in national blog attention (This post included).  Does that equate to votes?  We’ll see soon enough.

Clinton Leads Christmas

Hillary leads Obama 34% to 19% on Christmas Day in Iowa.  Romney and Huckabee duke out the top spot on the Republican side.

The Growing Impact of Global Warming

From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
While natural forces have influenced Earth’s climate (and always will), human-induced changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels are playing an increasingly dominant role.
The significant increase in average global temperatures over the past half-century can be attributed to human activities with a certainty of more than 90 percent.
Temperature rises have [...]

Comments on Commentary: The Downward Spiral of American Culture

From the Edge:
A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s. Indeed, the traditional American [...]

What is the Source of Oppression, Division, and Racism?

A Talk with Jared Diamond.
Historians don’t get training in the scientific methods; they don’t get training in statistics; they don’t get training in the experimental method or problems of doing experiments on historical subjects; and they’ll often say that history is not a science, history is closer to an art.
Jared comes [...]

Aped at Math! Monkeys as Dumb as College Kids

Now we’ve learned that monkeys do as well as we do at basic math!