It has been noted that we approach climate change denial as if the problem were not enough education, not enough facts in the public domain, but this does not seem to be the problem. If public education isn’t effective, what is Plan B?
The productive and necessary views and desires of non-religious libertarians and conservatives have been silenced in favour of the media friendly, accidentally-comic hyperbole of the entertainingly ridiculous rhetoric of Angle, Palin, Paul, Beck, et al. To allow a platform to be usurped by delusional religious fundamentalists with a counter-constitutional agenda is a threat to freedom, the Constitution, and the rights of all Americans.
A gubernatorial candidate in Vermont has added his voice to the effort to decriminalize marijuana. Peter Shumlin, a Windham County state senator fighting his way through a five-part primary, said he is throwing his support behind the burgeoning decriminalization movement.
Democrats are famous for burying their candidates in the backyard, while the Republicans are notorious for propping them up long after they’re dead. One of the frustrating things for President Obama must be the unreliability of the progressive pundits. Our guys–Olbermann, Maddow, Walsh, Schultz, Dowd and Company– aren’t shy about calling out the President. They [...]
Stories and images, singular in their power, capture the heartbreak of war in ways no set of statistics or political arguments could ever hope to convey. While numbers are dehumanizing, a poignant, life-affirming diary of a young girl written before succumbing to the deadly grasp of the Nazis movingly tells the story of the Holocaust. A single photograph of [...]
