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Congressman Lamar Smith desperately wants another Climategate and he's happy to abuse his power to manufacture one.
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The problem with wealth inequality isn't that it exists, it's how easily the 1% are running up the score and how angry they are that they're not being uniformly worshipped.
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A plan to save the planet by letting half of it revert to a wilderness may not be as unrealistic as it seems at first blush.
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Numerous studies show that humans have a biological aversion to extreme unfairness and inequality, and lash out when we encounter it.
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It's possible that astronauts living on Mars would eventually form their own sovereign government. And one astrobiologist really wants to speed up this process.
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Yes, you absolutely can go overboard and turn cultural sensitivity into something very, very toxic.
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Bureaucrats generally don't like creative, fair solutions to complicated problems, so it's no surprise they're making a mess of social activism on campus.
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Religious protections and exemptions have gone so far that in certain cases, neglecting and abusing children is legal as long as you claim there's a religious reason for it.
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While priests are looking how to get more butts in pews they're willing to consider anything to explain dropping church attendance. Anything except people losing faith.
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If we're going to meet the challenges of the future, we're going to need a plan and that plan starts with education...
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Extreme inequality caused by runaway capital gains is eating away at the global economy. But high taxes on passive income won't be a panacea.
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Atheists will not outshout religious zealots because the zealots will drag them down to a reality and fact-free screaming match and beat them with experience.
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Skeptical groups and bloggers seem to have split into two camps. One wants to teach and promote science. The other has very different priorities.
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Organized skepticism is all dressed up, but seems to have nowhere to go and isn't very interested in looking for new places it might want to visit.
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A group of Christians illustrates everything wrong with one-sided interfaith dialogue in their conclusions after conducting a survey of atheists.
