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Today there are much more interesting things to get riled up about on the internet than creationism. Why discuss boring stuff when you can take part in the culture wars and even have real popular scientists on your side? I think part of that is due to how creationists haven't come up with anything ...

They're still spewing WL Craig and Bananaman on FB. Oh, I'm quite sure creationism will never truly die out. It'll be like flat-earthism in that it'll persist on social media. Heck, I still hear it regularly on Christian radio where I live. Conservative Christians will never stop bashing evolution ...

G'day, Gerald, good to hear from you again. Thanks! I'm not sure an unequivocal "we won" can be stated, but at the very least, creationists are not making any real inroads into the zeitgeist. There will be pockets of rusted-on anti-evolutionists in many places (not just the US), and they probably w...

As someone who spent a lot of time on the evolution v creationism battles over the last 20 years, I've noticed that in the last 5 years or so the issue seems to have largely gone off the radar. In the message boards that are still around (both Christian and secular) it's barely debated, if at all. J...

Iraq, 10 years on: Did invasion bring 'hope and progress' to millions as Bush vowed? http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/19/17325601-iraq-10-years-on-did-invasion-bring-hope-and-progress-to-millions-as-bush-vowed?lite You can tell NBC is a bit reluctant to stick its neck out and just declare...

Houston-Area Tea Party Leader Had Ties to Fascist Party http://www.texastribune.org/2013/03/18/houston-area-tea-party-leader-had-ties-fascist-par/ As recently as 2003, the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party had a very different title: director of propaganda for the American Fascist...

Typical Politifact. It's not 'pants on fire' worthy -- the democrats don't have a feasible plan, because there is nothing in the House or Senate, or from the White House, that has any chance of getting a majority of DEMOCRATS. So, they are window dressing. It's not a 'Democrat' plan -- it's a 'smal...

The interesting thing right now is how Republicans are trying to pin the blame for the sequester on Obama. Why are they so desperate to do that? I thought federal spending cuts was one of their core agenda items?

A libertarian advocating control over reproduction. Huh.

The problem is, the authorization sets the POTUS up as the determinant of who fits that definition. Note the language...

"[T]he President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned..."

The real angle is that the broad grant of force to go anywhere and everywhere - authorizing a global war -- is not a lawful authorization of force and is improper, and was improper. Well, it's been authorized. The question is whether or not that authorization is constitutional. The question is just...

So your only angle on this issue is to bitch about those who opposed Bush's actions, but give Obama a pass. Hasn't that been covered already? I mean....10 pages + and the verdict is a lot of people are partisan hypocrites on political issues? Well I'm just shocked!!!

The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sjres23.enr.html [T]he President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terroris...

We were founded by Puritans you know.

Parsing down to the last syllable. FFS.