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PBS Airs False Facts in its "Inherit the Wind" Version of the Kitzmiller Trial (Updated) UPDATE: A tenth PBS blunder is addressed, where PBS makes the false insinuation that intelligent design is no more scientific than astrology. Scroll down to read more. More than 50 years ago two playwrights penned a fictionalized account of the 1920s Scopes Trial called "Inherit the Wind" that is now universally regarded by historians as inaccurate propaganda. Last night PBS aired its "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design" documentary, which similarly promotes propaganda about the 2005 Kitzmiller trial and intelligent design (ID). Most of the misinformation in...

WASHINGTON -- As NewsMax predicted last summer, high-ranking members of Congress are backing a bill to “ensure fairness in higher education and protect college students from one-sided liberal propaganda.” The “Academic Bill of Rights” is backed by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Tex., who says too many professors use classrooms “as their own personal soapboxes.” In a statement e-mailed to NewsMax.com, DeLay said the measure “seeks to create a neutral learning environment on college campuses by highlighting the hiring practices that hamper intellectual diversity.” Quality education, the majority leader believes, “should not take a back seat to the political agendas...

<p>WASHINGTON — Once again, we have a poll taken overseas that tells us how much everyone abroad loathes the United States.</p> <p>This time the survey comes from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press for its Global Attitudes Project.</p>

We are fixated by pedophile priests. Fashion ads are soft porn. Primetime pulses with the sexploits of its young characters. The Internet burns with broadband erotica. Pop lyrics are explicit. And Viagra's numbers are going up - more than 10 million men across the country have taken it. America, like some randy teenager, is oozing sex. Unfortunately, like the same teenager, it is incredibly ignorant about sex. Though we seem to be in a national state of arousal, experts say that we have long neglected the basic research that could help us better understand human sexual behavior, deal effectively with...