Top GOP VP Choices: Failed Business Leaders, Former Dems, Confirmed Bachelors and Creationists
If you thought the Republican primary field was a bit of a joke, wait until you get a closer look at the front runners for the vice presidential slot.
If you thought the Republican primary field was a bit of a joke, wait until you get a closer look at the front runners for the vice presidential slot.
Gary Marcus | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Lost amid all the recent discussions of intelligent design is one simple basic fact: the human species isn't intelligently designed.
The Times Picayune | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Gov. Bobby Jindal attracted national attention and strongly worded advice about how he should deal with the Louisiana Science Education Act. Jindal i...
Bruce Wilson | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Jindal has joined the GOP in its bold march backwards towards the days of when Medieval concepts such as Geocentrism, phlogistan and the "Four Humors" held sway.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
How did this country become so colossally retarded? Sure, there will always be the lunatic fringe, but they belong on the fringe -- not playing host to presidential candidates.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Governor, exorcist, and potential McCain running mate, was interviewed on CBS's Face The Nation on Father's Day. Among the top...
New York Times | LAURA BEIL | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living
Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the las...
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
With Hillary Clinton still "not making any decisions," she now joins a select group of causes and phenomena that just won't go away, no matter how much you wish they would.
David Horton | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
I was re-reading a book (Steve Jones "In the blood") the other day that I first read a decade ago. I came to two sentences that I had obviously read t...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
Institutionalized tolerance makes it taboo to condemn the practice of teachers teaching Creationism in the classroom. This intellectually bankrupt curriculum needs to be condemned.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
ABC News reports on the findings of a study that concluded 16% of U.S. science teachers are Creationists, and that, disturbingly, one in eight are tea...
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
For far too long, conservatives have made political hay with the notion that they are the party of ideas and the party of values -- even as they've he...
Chip Collis | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
Once you subjugate science to religion, you end up fighting for the survival of the species with a National Day of Prayer, asking Him to deflect the killer asteroid with His Noodly Appendage.
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
Ben Stein is the face of Creationism in the new movie Expelled, which is about how "Big Science" is robbing radical geniuses of their rightful rewards.
Paul Abrams | Posted 04.22.2008 | Entertainment
Ben Stein manufactures a conspiracy theory in which Big Science, Big Media, and Big Government conspire to suppress academic freedom.
James Boyce | Posted 04.17.2008 | Entertainment
Ben Stein works in Hollywood. Ben Stein knows the rules. I would like to ask him how he feels about using John Lennon's song without permission.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
If Ben Stein cares so much about free speech and academic freedom, where has he been all these years?
James Boyce | Posted 04.14.2008 | Entertainment
What hasn't been discussed about the movie Expelled is the fact that Yoko Ono either sold or gave the rights to "Imagine" to the producers of the film.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living
Ben Stein's new movie, em>Expelled, attempts to turn intelligent design/creationist complaints into mainstream media.
David Horton | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living
If evolution has worked perfectly well to produce all the other features of all the other species on the planet, why on Earth would god even bother to design a flagellum?
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living
I had an ashiatsu massage for the first time the other day, and let me tell you, it was quite an experience. I was at the spa at the Broadmoor Resor...
Chris McGowan | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
McCain will have to get right with God, and by that I don't mean the more tolerant, less politically involved deity of Catholics and mainline Protestants. I am referring to the God of Pat Robertson.
AP | NANCY ZUCKERBROD | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Scientific advisers to the government emphasize in a report the importance of teaching evolution in public schools. The report by the National Academy...
David Horton | Posted 12.03.2007 | Home
It's amazing isn't it that people who don't believe in the demonstrated reality of global warming, worked on by tens of thousands of scientists in all...
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Paul Jenkins | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics