May 22, 2013
11:20 a.m.
HERE‘s a great collection of arguments to use against the disinformation campaigns of global-warming deniers.
Each of these quick responses is accompanied by a link to a scientific article dealing with the specific subject at issue.
You might wa...
May 22, 2013
11:20 a.m.
Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein WRITES HERE of a fascinating study conducted by Philip Fernbach and a team of academics at the University of Colorado whereby political extremists are turned into comparative moderates:
Their central finding i...
May 22, 2013
11:20 a.m.
As you may already know, some of the vermin on the far, far right of the American political spectrum have been peddling theories that last month’s Boston Marathon bombings were a nefarious plot hatched by the Obama administration — a “...
May 21, 2013
5:20 p.m.
THIS is pretty interesting:
GOP aides are criticizing the House Republicans’ partisan witch-hunt over the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year, arguing that the Party should focus more...
May 21, 2013
5:20 p.m.
Political analyst Charlie Cook, who’s widely respected in both parties, SAYS Republicans are too obsessed with their bitter battles against President Obama:
Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic pres...
May 21, 2013
5:20 p.m.
David Sirota NAILS IT:
Was the severe weather system culminating in yesterday’s Oklahoma City tornado intensified — or even created — by climate change? That question will almost certainly be batted back and forth in the media over the next few...
May 21, 2013
5:20 p.m.
The man SAYS the GOP needs greater diversity:
At a sold-out New Hampshire Republican Party dinner Monday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) encouraged the room of GOP supporters to embrace diversity and outreach if they want to take the White House in 2016,...
May 21, 2013
5:20 p.m.
Why am I not surprised that the silly 1984 fantasy “Red Dawn” (above) tops THIS LIST?
After the December killings in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association’s chief lambasted the the evils of violent movies and video games, saying th...
May 21, 2013
5:20 p.m.
Two major public-opinion polls released this week have lots of good news for President Obama and lots of bad news for the Republican Party.
The first of these is the CNN/ORC survey, which includes THESE RESULTS:
The new numbers indicate that Obama rem...
May 21, 2013
5:20 p.m.
“Hypocrites” is the one word that comes to mind in light of THIS::
As frantic rescue missions continued Monday in Oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents wh...
