Article by
missy on March 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Doubt. Doubt = weakness, and weakness = electoral failure.
So it’s a minor miracle when a politician reaches the right conclusion and, despite his doubts, acts on it:
SANTA FE — The Bill Richardson who announced a repeal of the death penalty in New Mexico on Wednesday was not the same Bill Richardson who usually shows up for face time with the news media.
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Article by
missy on March 17th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Once again, the Templeton prize has been awarded not for new discovery, but for the admission by a scientist that there are mysteries that science cannot penetrate, and therefore the answer is WOO:
French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat won the Templeton Prize for religion on Monday for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain “the nature of being”.
He [...]
Article by
John on October 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Video highlights:
PRIORITIES
Tax cut for 95% of working Americans
End tax breaks for “outsourcers”
Reduce health care costs
Energy independence
Better education
FUNDING
Stop $10 billion waste in Iraq
Bailout oversight
Bush/McCain tax cuts for top 2% expire
Close [...]
Article by
missy on September 4th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
But then maybe it’s just god’s will:
OTTAWA (AFP) — Two ice shelves in Canada’s far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change.
The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island broke away in early August and [...]
Article by
John on August 13th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Most of us that have been paying attention or that have been involved in the outright “undemocracy” of party politics want to change to a better political party system. Rob Kall, over at OpEd News, says that two things must occur to fix party politics, namely instituting instant run-off voting and equal treatment for all parties (not just the R and D parties) by [...]
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