Denialism

Category: Politics

  • You Know You’re in Trouble When Alan Keyes is Your Hero

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    MarkH
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    I’m sad I missed the “Values Voters Presidential Debate”, but I’m not alone. All the first-tier presidential candidates skipped it as well. The big winner was apparently Mike Huckabee according to the World Nut Daily, he apparently was the most hateful of them all. But the nuts are clearly upset at being snubbed by the…

  • Verizon: It’s OUR Network

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    Mark is totally outperforming me on this blog for many reasons, but my newest excuse is that I went to Austin for the weekend to see the Austin City Limits Festival. W00t!!1! So, I’m going to be covering some divine articles that appeared over the weekend. First up: Verizon, it’s OUR network, baby! The Journal…

  • OTA Thread II

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    MarkH
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    Let’s keep this ball rolling. On Friday we started talking about the importance of the OTA It used to be, for about 20 years (from 1974 to 1995), there was an office on the Hill, named the Office of Technology Assessment, which worked for the legislative branch and provided non-partisan scientific reports relevant to policy…

  • Bring Back the OTA – Bring Back Evidence Based Government

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    So I was thinking. It isn’t really enough to merely react constantly to anti-scientific behavior which seems to permeate the media, the interwebs, and policy discussions on Capitol Hill these days. It used to be, for about 20 years (from 1974 to 1995), there was an office on the Hill, named the Office of Technology…

  • Is the surge working? (or why I need more metrics)

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    Here’s an excellent opportunity to use the hive mind to look for classic techniques of deception for political benefit on the question of the “surge”. Reading the news stories about the progress in Iraq, I can’t help but notice a certain partisan nature to interpretation of events. You have the conservative Washington Times saying The…

  • Senator Craig – I apologize in advance

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    Ok, I can’t resist. What do people think of Larry Craig’s arrest for ostensibly soliciting sex in a men’s room? He’s denying he did anything wrong. Tuesday, in his first public statement on the arrest, the Idaho Republican said he did nothing “inappropriate.” “Let me be clear: I am not gay and never have been,”…

  • If you want to prevent abortions write your senator and congressmen now

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    Multiple news outlets have been reporting on the sudden increase in cost for birth control prescriptions at health centers on college campuses. The cause? Health experts say the price bump for college students was inadvertent — a byproduct of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, a federal law that went into effect in January. The…

  • Prophetic words about the Iraq War

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    MarkH
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    Via Pandagon we see that at least one administration official knew ahead of time the types of troubles we would encounter trying to occupy Iraq.

  • Turdblossom quits

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    Karl Rove quits. I wonder what this means? This administration has so little transparency one always feels like interpreting their actions is like trying to read tea leaves. Does this mean they realize Karl Rove’s advice isn’t pulling Bush out of his terrible approval ratings? Is Rove trying to avoid going down with a sinking…

  • Maybe Newdow was right

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    MarkH
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    Fighting the “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance seemed like such a folly a year or so ago, but then Texas reminds us of just how pushy the religious can be. Texas students will have four more words to remember when they head back to class this month and begin reciting the state’s pledge…