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After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.
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Texas finally had enough of Don McLeroy's leadership of the school board. But he's still on the board and still a threat to reality-based education.
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GOP congressman Mike Pence managed to perform a rare feat: an interview about science and environment in which every statement was completely wrong.
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Disease prevention suddenly turns partisan thanks to America's most out of control congresswoman...
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Fundamentalism and politics becomes a noxious, incoherent mess in Utah County.
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You can make a lot of money and still feel like you're just barely getting by. It's all a matter of math and geography...
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Fundamentalists want credit to their chosen deity for everything that happens in your life. Except the bad stuff that is...
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Capitalism will always be with us. We just need to learn how to use it, not serve it like an angry deity.
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Capitalism is a tool, not a deity to be worshipped, much less with the inherent arrogance of Objectivism.
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Nuclear weapons are pretty much the only weapons you can't actually use and expect to survive the end result.
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Bobby Jindal is a rising star within the GOP. Unfortunately, it's because he keeps picking battles with scientific reality.
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Sometimes the comments are more telling than the reporting on an important issue in science education.
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How to view history through the prism of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
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Self-destructive greed is not good, especially self-destructive greed financed with public money.