Denialism

Category: Politics

  • Missile defense is a boondoggle

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    MarkH
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    This is why we need the Office of Technology Assessment (and listen to it), Bush is trying to bring back SDI, big time. President Bush said yesterday that a missile defense system is urgently needed in Europe to guard against a possible attack on U.S. allies by Iran, while Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested…

  • It’s Time to Free Wireless Phones

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    Chris
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    All that stuff that the wireless industry says about being competitive is baloney! Cell phones in the US are big and stupid, and deliberately crippled to get you to pay extra for things that are natively supported in devices, like custom ringtones. And most Americans don’t know any better because they’ve never used the higher…

  • Telcos Pump Cash into Rockefeller’s Coffers

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    Chris
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    Over at Threat Level Ryan Single reports that all of a sudden, Senator Rockefeller, the putative custodian of legislation to give telecommunications companies immunity from privacy lawsuits, is getting lots of cash from such companies. And most of these donations come from out-of-state donors (Verizon and AT&T employees who do not live in West Virginia).…

  • Another monkey put in charge of the zoo

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    WaPo reports on the appointment of Susan Orr: The Bush administration again has appointed a chief of family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who has been critical of contraception. Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed Monday to be acting deputy…

  • The Greatest Generation and Interrogation

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    MarkH
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    A must-read from the Washington Post about how interrogations went in WWII. For six decades, they held their silence. The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt. When about two…

  • Hillary Clinton will restore the OTA

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    MarkH
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    Good news from the political front. Hillary Clinton plans to re-establish the OTA if elected. Fifth, we’re going to stop substituting ideology for science and evidence, and we’re going to start giving the American people again the facts on the issues that matter to them and their families. Over the past six years, this Administration…

  • Mixing Religion and Politics – bad for religion too

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    Check out this fascinating new study from the Barna group that appears to show the damage that is being done to the Christian faith by the political actions of right wing fundamentalists. This should serve as a serious wake-up call for the culture warriors who are attempting to increase the role of religion in politics…

  • Which is a worse lie?

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    MarkH
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    I’m thinking of lies from presidents and the resulting scandal. On the one hand we have the impeachment of Clinton for “I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.” On the other we have “We do not torture” from George W. Bush combined with the news that we do indeed torture people. It…

  • Fire Blackwater

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    Have people seen the coverage of these Blackwater hearings? The police officer, whom CNN is identifying only as Sarhan, said the Blackwater guards “seemed nervous” as they entered the square, throwing water bottles at the Iraqi police posted there and driving in the wrong direction. He said traffic police halted civilian traffic to clear the…

  • Bring Back the OTA III – A history of the OTA

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    MarkH
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    Chris Mooney has been nice enough to help promote our effort, and points us to some more helpful information about the Office of Technology Assessment. Now would be a good time to go over what the OTA did, how it was set up, and why I think it would be rather easy to set it…