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Politics Archive

Tom Emmer. He pays a little more.

And pigs can fly.
Hat tip to Jafsica for reminding me of this ad!

Especially for Teachers
Teachers Under Fire
Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!
Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling
The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me
The Bible-Thumping Grinch […]


Even as the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates prepared to debate Tuesday night, Ralph Nader, a controversial figure from the last two presidential campaigns, sued the Democratic Party, the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign and affiliated groups for allegedly sabotaging his 2004 campaign.
“The Democratic Party is going after anyone who presents a credible challenge to their monopoly […]

Rudy Jiuliani, Former Mayor of New York and Current Republican Candidate for President of the United States. This is not a doctored photograph. It is Rudy Giuliani at a party in 2000.
As PZ Myers points out in his comment on this news story, “Yeah, I know, it’s getting so predictable it’s not […]

Minnetonka School Board Candidate William Wenmark. His campaign site is here.
Creationist School Board William H. Wenmark up for re-election in Minnetonka. Minnetonkians, please GET OUT THE VOTE!
Minnetonka is a large and sprawling lake, a lovely little town, and a pretty darn good school district west of Minneapolis. But the story […]

Apparently, Barack Obama is calling for the firing of a John Tanner Justice Department official for making certain remarks in a recent speech. Tanner was speaking about drivers licenses as voter ID’s and the possibility that this would limit the franchise for selected groups such as the elderly, who may often not posses such […]

Even as two out of five Americans think several racists thoughts a day, and commit up to four racist acts per week (unattributed statistics but you know its true) we find evidence every day of the true unity of humankind. This evidence comes from inter-cultural global encounters of a personal kind, like when an American […]

He was a Bad Governor, too.

The headlines: Innocent Man Free, DNA Evidence Lifts Rape Charge. This is in reference to the release of Christopher Ochoa, his innocence proven with the use of newly analyzed DNA evidence.
In February, 1998, a convicted felon serving for life wrote the following letter to then Governor George Bush. In brief, […]

Hail to the Idiot

This exchange is documented on Think Progress:
In an interview with President Bush yesterday, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo asked the President what he thought of Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate:

BARTIROMO: Did you see the Republican candidate debate? What did you think? Who came out a winner?
BUSH: Were you there?
BARTIROMO: Yes, I was. I was the co-host.
BUSH: You were […]

Academics tend to be liberal, this we all know. But it is interesting to contemplate the finer details of this association. When we do so, we discover some interesting differences among different kinds of academics, and one group in particular — “Health Scientists” — can be singled out as bucking the trend. […]

I just love my Linux “calendar” command. It’s an old Unix trick. *nix (Linux, Unix) systems have these special files on them where dated information is stored, for the user, the system, or just because it’s there. If you have a Linux computer, you have several such files already installed. If […]

Chris Matthews
From a report in Examiner.com, regarding comments made by Chris Matthews at the tenth anniversary party for Hardball, last night:
In front of an audience that included such notables as Alan Greenspan, Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy, Matthews began his remarks by declaring that he wanted to “make some news” […]

Candidates for president.
Some time later today, in a few minutes, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski is going to introduce Barack Obama to an audience in Iowa, where he (Obama) will deliver a speech calling for the immediate withdraw of troops from Iraq.
Sort of. Actually, the immediate beginning of a withdraw. […]

Larry Craig, Senator from the Great State of Idaho, on Bill Clinton:

This is Larry Craig’s mugshot from when he was arrested right here in the Twin Cities in June:

The police officer who arrested him June 11 said Craig peered through a crack in a restroom stall door for two minutes and made gestures suggesting to […]