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• November 23, 2009

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Antibiotic Resistance and the House and Senate Healthcare Bills Some good in each version.

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Van Dyke's Definition of "Good Faith" After making a first attempt to reply to my challenge concerning conservative originalism and the Loving v Virginia decision, Tom Van Dyke then left a comment at American Creation accusing me of not arguing in "good faith." Here is what...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Bush DOJ Officials Defend KSM Civilian Trial While the right wing loses its collective mind over the decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and a couple other 9/11 conspirators in federal court in New York, two former Bush DOJ officials puncture their empty fear mongering and defend...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Dumbass Quote of the Day From an old friend of Dispatches, Utah State Sen. Chris Buttars: I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don't mind gays. But I don't want 'em stuffing it down my...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Our Mere Existence is Offensive It has been fascinating watching the response, city by city, where the advertisement that says "Not religious? You're not alone" has gone up. We've seen bus drivers refuse to drive buses with that ad on them (and get fired for...

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  New Church/State Lawsuit in Tennessee A new lawsuit has been filed against the Cheatham County, Tennessee school system over a range of church/state violations including allowing Bible distribution in classrooms, teacher-endorsed prayer at football games and school-sponsored prayer at graduation ceremonies and the teaching of...

• November 22, 2009

• The Primate Diaries

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  Spirited Debate with Ray and Kirk From Atheist Cartoons.com...

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Why Should Democratic Voters Be Party Strategists... ...because that's your job.

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Let the War on Christmas Begin. Atheist style. This week is Thanksgiving in the United States. This means that over the coming weekend many Americans will be putting up Christmas decorations in and outside their houses. Many children will be putting finishing touches on their letters to Santa. The shopping malls will start...

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Conservative Originalism and Interracial Marriage An interesting conversation has begun on American Creation, where my friend Jon Rowe blogs along with several others from every side of the question of religion and the founding fathers (including frequent Dispatches commenter King of Ireland). The discussion is...

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  The Kirk Cameron Action Kit FunnyOrDie has an amusing video in response to Kirk Cameron's crusade to hand out 50,000 copies of The Origin of Species with a creationist introduction. Video below the fold....

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  Right Wing Rap: Just Stop. Please. Yet another right wing rapper has shown up on the scene at the tea parties. His name is Hi Caliber and he sucks as bad as all the previous ones. "Patriotic people throw your hands in the air, and wave...

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  Missouri Republicans Call For Violent Revolution And they're quite proud of doing so, announcing it on their blog. The Lafayette County, MO Republicans have put up a billboard calling for revolution. And the banner on the billboard says "PREPARE FOR WAR--LIVE FREE OR DIE!" Here's the...

• Deltoid

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  On those stolen CRU emails Global Warming deniers are tryingto make a big deal about some emails stolen from CRU.

• November 21, 2009

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Don't Know Much About Palintology Of course Palinists can imagine Sarah Palin talking about economics with the Chinese government.

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

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  Cert Denied in Religious Graduation Speech Case The Supreme Court has denied cert in the case of McComb v. Crehan, the 2006 case where a valedictorian had her microphone cut off by the school during her speech at a graduation ceremony because she began to talk about...

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  Cops: Break the Law, Change Departments The Charleston Gazette of West Virginia documents a whole bunch of police officers breaking the law over and over again and just changing to a new department. The chief example is a cop named Matthew Leavitt, who was finally sentenced...

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  Oh Ye Of Little Faith This will show you just how strong the faith is for many Catholics. An Italian man has invented a hands-free holy water dispenser for Catholic churches because congregants were afraid of dipping their hands in the holy water urns: Clever...

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  Hilarious Onion Article About 8 people emailed me a link to this article from the Onion: Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a read. It's just barely a parody. Spurred by...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Global Warming Alarmist Conspiracy Emails Hacked!!!11!! The Anthropocentric Global Warming Denialist Community is collectively creaming in its collective jeans over the release of zillions of emails that definitively prove that the whole global warming conspiracy thing was made up. Real Climate has the story:...

• November 20, 2009

• Built on Facts

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  Leaked Climate Change Documents Around ScienceBlogs, people who don't accept global warming as a real phenomena tend to get called denialists. In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit that I'm not a denialist but rather a global warming defeatist. Doesn't matter how...

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  The Republican Establishment Is Absolutely Nuts "Prepare for war?" So says a Republican county party committee.

• The Primate Diaries

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  Friday Rant: Atheists Need To Be Brighter Now that the Darwin Reclamation Project collage has been posted, I can confess that I have a few problems with the recent atheist action that sought to counter the dunderhead Ray Comfort and his Creationist propaganda ministry. I'm not sure...

• Respectful Insolence

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  "Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon Nooooo! Not one of the seemingly rational ones too!

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Misinterpreting the Solution to the Manure Crisis and the Global Warming Problem... ...and how Levitt and Dubner fail to see that the Manure problem was not 'solved', only turned into a new problem that will also require wrenching change.

Hurricanes

As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.

The Island of DoubtJuly 25, 2006

The real story of the hurricanes

Neuron Culture September 11, 2008

Hurricanes & Climate Change: A Round-Up Says Maybe More, Definitely Hotter

Corpus Callosum September 12, 2008

What Ike Really Means; Introducing Integrated Kinetic Energy