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  • Daily Kos on Reagan 100: He Inspired the Oklahoma City Bombing

    02/09/2011 8:07:50 AM PST · by RobinMasters · 47 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | February 08, 2011 | Tim Graham
    If liberals thought the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth was a little sickening, they could always find comfort in the loopy leftist loathing of the Daily Kos. On Sunday, "Slangist" took the fruitcake with lines like this: "First elected Governor on a muted inclination to shoot student demonstrators, Reagan spent his political life as an apostle of reaction, repression and recklessness." Reagan's contempt for the U.S. government was the "direct ancestor of Timothy McVeigh's, though Reagan's damage hit all American urban areas, not just Oklahoma City." He was McVeigh, only more murderous. This Kosmonaut also boldly...
  • Social Scientist Sees Bias Within

    02/09/2011 5:57:01 AM PST · by ZGuy · 33 replies
    NY Times ^ | 2/7/11 | JOHN TIERNEY
    Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting. Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s conference, where psychologists discuss their research on racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism, stereotype threat and unconscious bias against minorities. But the most talked-about speech at this year’s meeting, which ended Jan. 30, involved a new “outgroup.” It was identified by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality and ideology. He polled his audience at the San Antonio Convention...
  • Conceptualizing cancer cells as ancient 'toolkit'

    02/08/2011 5:47:18 AM PST · by decimon · 42 replies · 1+ views
    Arizona State University ^ | February 7, 2011 | Unknown
    TEMPE, Ariz. – Despite decades of research and billions of dollars, cancer remains a major killer, with an uncanny ability to evade both the body's defenses and medical intervention. Now an Arizona State University scientist believes he has an explanation. "Cancer is not a random bunch of selfish rogue cells behaving badly, but a highly-efficient pre-programmed response to stress, honed by a long period of evolution," claims professor Paul Davies, director of the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at ASU and principal investigator of a major research program funded by the National Cancer Institute designed to bring insights...
  • Social Scientist Sees {Liberal} Bias Within

    02/08/2011 3:48:38 AM PST · by Cronos · 34 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 7-Feb-2011 | John Tiernay
    ....But the most talked-about speech at this year’s meeting, which ended Jan. 30, involved a new “outgroup.”... It was identified by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality and ideology. He polled his audience at the San Antonio Convention Center, starting by asking how many considered themselves politically liberal. A sea of hands appeared, and Dr. Haidt estimated that liberals made up 80 percent of the 1,000 psychologists in the ballroom. When he asked for centrists and libertarians, he spotted fewer than three dozen hands. And then, when he asked...
  • Lefties Poison Conservatives for the Greater Good in “The Last Supper”

    02/08/2011 4:30:25 AM PST · by Walter Scott Hudson · 9 replies · 1+ views
    David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | February 5, 2011 | Calvin Freiburger
    Nope, not this one.Last I checked, we were supposed to be heading towards a new Golden Age of Civility in which everyone will respect each other’s views, police their own side’s misbehavior, and, above all, make sure to never, ever, ever say anything that could possibly be misconstrued as a call to violence. Well, apparently some lefties in Madison, Wisconsin didn’t get the memo; the Mercury Players Theater is putting on a play about a group of young leftists who decide to start murdering conservatives—and not metaphorically: Five lefty graduate students in Iowa City gather for weekly dinners to revel...
  • Obama invokes religious themes as 2012 campaign nears (you gotta read this)

    02/06/2011 4:54:01 PM PST · by RummyChick · 78 replies
    washington examiner ^ | 2/05 | julie mason
    "When I wake in the morning, I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to give me the strength to do right by our country and its people," Obama said. "And when I go to bed at night, I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to forgive me my sins, and look after my family and the American people, and make me an instrument of His will." Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/white-house/2011/02/obama-invokes-religious-themes-2012-campaign-nears#ixzz1DEJDFIhg
  • Glenn Beck Radio Thread Thu. 2/3/11

    02/03/2011 6:02:10 AM PST · by Texas Eagle · 12 replies · 1+ views
    http://www.glennbeck.com ^ | 2/3/11 | Glenn Beck
    Listen live here
  • The Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Show Thread - Wednesday, February 2, 2011

    02/02/2011 8:11:25 AM PST · by IMissPresidentReagan · 257 replies
    The EIB Network ^ | 02/02/11 | Rush Limbaugh
    AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...
  • What scientists believe (Younger scientists are now more religious than older scientists)

    01/29/2011 12:53:48 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Cardus ^ | 01/25/2011 | Milton Friesen
    Despite the binary title, Science vs. Religion is about the need for greater nuance, informed communication, and mutual understanding within the complicated intertwining spaces of religious belief and scientific research. Using social science research methods, Ecklund aims to map the contours of religious belief and spirituality in the lives and minds of natural and social scientists at 21 elite research universities in the United States. Her research included 1,700 web and phone surveys and 275 personal interviews (and the survey instruments are included in the book). One of the dominant themes that emerges from this primary research is the extraordinary...
  • Chris Matthews Blames Egypt Riots on George W. Bush and Iraq War

    01/29/2011 12:02:28 PM PST · by Justaham · 18 replies
    Newsbusters.org ^ | 1-29-11 | Noel Sheppard
    It's a metaphysical certitude that whenever anything happens in the Middle East, the media will quickly blame former President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. Not missing the opportunity to do so, Chris Matthews began the 5PM installment of "Hardball" Friday connecting the riots in Egypt to a man that has been out of office for two years (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Trouble on the Nile. Let`s play HARDBALL. Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight: Unrest in Egypt. Proving the Iraq war wasn`t needed, these protests in Egypt, as...
  • 'Obama's Katrina': an Illustrated Timeline

    05/02/2010 12:16:54 PM PDT · by Matchett-PI · 341 replies · 5,328+ views
    Directorblueblogspot ^ | May 01, 2010 | Doug Ross
    20 April 2010: An oil rig rented and operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, killing 11 workers. 21 April 2010: All 115 workers are evacuated from the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. 22 April 2010: The Deepwater Horizon collapses into the sea and sinks. 22 April 2010: President Obama delivers a speech on Wall Street to advocate more government intervention in the country's financial sector, but offers no reforms for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which helped precipitate the 2008 meltdown. He also delivers a speech regarding the contributions of Earth Day to environmental awareness. Meanwhile, 200,000...
  • Concerning The Reason of Our Endowment With Free-will.

    01/27/2011 7:05:45 AM PST · by marshmallow · 43 replies
    We hold, therefore, that free-will comes on the scene at the same moment as reason, and that change and alteration are congenital to all that is produced. For all that is produced is also subject to change. For those things must be subject to change whose production has its origin in change. And change consists in being brought into being out of nothing, and in transforming a substratum of matter into something different. Inanimate things, then, and things without reason undergo the aforementioned bodily changes, while the changes of things endowed with reason depend on choice. For reason consists of...
  • Belgian doctors harvest high quality organs from euthanased patients

    01/26/2011 3:57:05 AM PST · by markomalley · 22 replies
    MercatorNet ^ | 1/25/11 | Michael Cook
    A group of Belgian doctors are harvesting “high quality” organs from patients who have been euthanased. This is not a secret project, but one which they described openly at a conference organised by the Belgian Royal Medical Academy in December. In a PowerPoint presentation, Dirk Ysebaert, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Michel Meurisse, of the University Hospitals Of Antwerp, Leuven And Liège, showed that about 20% of the 705 people who died through euthanasia (officially) in 2008 were suffering from neuromuscular disorders whose organs are relatively high quality for transplanting to other patients. This represents a useful pool of organs which could...
  • Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin

    01/18/2011 12:48:43 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 48 replies
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | January 18, 2011 | Evan Sayet
    It just happened again. I spend a fair amount of time at my local coffee shop. I like to do my writing outside and, besides, it gives me an opportunity to try and initiate political conversations with the people who pass by, my hope always being to begin to enlighten them as to what conservative really believe (and not just what the Leftist media tells them.) Today the conversation turned to Sarah Palin and my new acquaintance blurted out “Oh I hate her.” Not yet knowing my politics, I’m sure that, being her in Los Angeles she expected to hear...
  • Mohler takes on 'theistic evolution'

    01/16/2011 4:09:10 PM PST · by balch3 · 1,732 replies · 2+ views
    Associated Baptist Press ^ | January 13, 2011 | Bob Allen
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- A Southern Baptist seminary president and evolution opponent has turned sights on "theistic evolution," the idea that evolutionary forces are somehow guided by God. Albert Mohler Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote an article in the Winter 2011 issue of the seminary magazine labeling attempts by Christians to accommodate Darwinism "a biblical and theological disaster." Mohler said being able to find middle ground between a young-earth creationism that believes God created the world in six 24-hour days and naturalism that regards evolution the product of random chance "would resolve a great cultural and...
  • Sarah Palin called 'borderline lunatic' by Newsweek reporter

    01/03/2011 6:11:39 AM PST · by FredJake · 51 replies
    examiner.com ^ | 1/2/2011 | Joe Newby
    Liberal pundits agree: Sarah Palin is horrible. Some might even say deranged. Newsbusters reported that on New Year's Eve, Newsweek's Julia Reed called her a "borderline lunatic" on CNN's All the Best, All the Worst of 2010. Newsweek recently released a cover naming President Obama "God of All Things." Tim Graham posted a transcript of the relevant portion: TOM FOREMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Best pounding of the pundits. SARAH PALIN: Whoo, Nevada. FOREMAN: Sarah Palin. JULIA REED, NEWSWEEK: A borderline lunatic. JULIE CHEN, CBS: Love her or hate her, she's definitely entertaining. FOREMAN: The hockey mom gone rogue proved all the...
  • Gallup Poll: 4 in 10 Americans still hold creationist views

    12/20/2010 7:19:04 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 418 replies · 23+ views
    Science on MSNBC ^ | 12/19/2010
    If you're in a room of 100 people, odds are likely about 40 think God created humans about 10,000 years ago, part of a philosophy called creationism, according to a Gallup poll reported Friday (Dec. 17). That number is slightly lower than in years past and down from a high of 47 percent in both 1993 and 1999. And 38 percent of Americans, the poll estimates, believe God guided the process that brought humans from "cavemen" to today's incarnation over millions of years, while 16 percent think humans evolved over millions of years, without any divine intervention. This secular view,...
  • Earth: Rock of Ages or Young Planet?

    12/15/2010 5:17:34 AM PST · by ImProudToBeAnAmerican · 311 replies · 1+ views
    Inspire Tomorrow ^ | Dec. 15, 2010 | Rosemarie Thompson
    “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.” (Exodus 20:11a KJV) According to evolutionary scientists, the earth is over 4 billion years old; but Biblical chronology dates the age of the earth at about 6,000 years. In an attempt to reconcile the two extreme positions, many creation scientists have used 2 Peter 3:8 to state that the six days mentioned in the Genesis account were not literal 24-hour days. However, if we used the “a day is as a thousand years” formula, we would have...
  • Homes Torched, Signs read "F--- The Rich" (All Lose War On Wealth)

    12/14/2010 9:09:27 AM PST · by suspects · 30 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | December 14, 2010 | Michael Graham
    “If they [Republicans] think it’s OK to raise taxes for the embattled middle class. . . if we don’t give more money to millionaires, it really is time for people to take up pitchforks” - Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. On the Cape it’s not pitchforks, it’s torches. The Cape Cod Times has the story of two recent arsons, one in Barnstable and another in Sandwich. “In both cases, the arsonist left a calling card, the message, ‘f--- the rich’ at the scene,” the Times reports. One house was almost destroyed. At the other, a propane tank had been cut off...
  • He Called Sarah Palin an "Idiot"?

    12/14/2010 6:44:17 AM PST · by Kaslin · 122 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 14, 2010 | Dennis Prager
    EDITORS NOTE: THERE IS LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT THE COLUMN THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS. THANK YOU. On CNN recently, Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network," "West Wing") called Sarah Palin an "idiot."Let's see to whom that label applies.Last week in the Huffington Post, Sorkin wrote a column attacking the ex-governor of Alaska and her TLC mini-series reality TV show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." Sorkin opened with a quote from Palin on the hypocrisy of meat-eaters who condemn hunting for food. He then proceeded with this response: "You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go f--- ourselves now."That non sequitur was the...