A More Reality-Based Poll
Category: media
The Washington Post gets it right, pointing out that Tea Partiers make up only about 2% of the general population.
Posted on: May 6, 2010 9:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
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Republican Party:
This Is a Very Dumb Poll
Category: media
The New York Times hints that its new poll reveals stunning new truths about the Tea Party movement, but in reality it tells us almost nothing.
Posted on: April 14, 2010 9:33 PM, by Nick Anthis • 12 Comments •
It's Getting Kind of Hot Out There....
Category: global warming
As a record-breaking April heat wave hits Washington, DC, one has to wonder: where are all of those climate skeptics who so recently pounced on Snowmageddon as "evidence" against global warming?
Posted on: April 6, 2010 10:09 PM, by Nick Anthis • 20 Comments •
Arlen Specter Leaves GOP for Dems
Category: Republican Party
Specter: "the Republican Party has moved far to the right"
Posted on: April 28, 2009 1:22 PM, by Nick Anthis • 6 Comments •
Just When I Thought Texas Politics Couldn't Get Any Dumber
Category: Texas
Republican lawmaker asks "What's Medicaid?"
Posted on: March 23, 2009 4:30 PM, by Nick Anthis • 6 Comments •
You Can Put $150,000 Worth of Clothes and Makeup on a Horribly Unqualified VP Candidate, but....
Category: John McCain
You know the rest.
Posted on: October 22, 2008 3:03 PM, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Obamamentum
Category: Barack Obama
Obama wins Louisiana (57-36), Washington (68-31), and Nebraska (68-32), while John McCain still struggles to seal the deal.
Posted on: February 10, 2008 9:10 AM, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Brief Super Tuesday Update
Category: Election 2008
The Democratic race remains tight, while McCain increases his lead--but not enough to declare victory.
Posted on: February 6, 2008 8:01 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
South Carolina a Huge Victory for Obama, Democrats
Category: Election 2008
Obama's 295,091 votes last night trump second place finisher Hillary Clinton's 141,128 and Republican victor John McCain's 147,283.
Posted on: January 27, 2008 9:53 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
An Immigration Reality Check for Iowans
Category: Election 2008
Immigration will be issue number one for Republicans participating in the Iowa Caucuses tonight, but before they get too fired up, they might want to pay attention to this dispatch from the reality-based community.
Posted on: January 3, 2008 4:35 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
A Choice We Shouldn't Have to Make
Category: medicine
Guess what... we all get to play doctor!
Posted on: October 24, 2007 5:25 PM, by Nick Anthis • 10 Comments •
Schwarzenegger Approves Condor Protection Bill, but Damage Already Done
Category: endangered species
It will take two rights to make up for this wrong.
Posted on: October 15, 2007 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 9 Comments •
Fundraising Scam Not Enough to Keep NRCC in the Black
Category: Republican Party
Tensions mount between Congressman Tom Cole and the Republican leadership.
Posted on: September 24, 2007 1:55 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
New Attack Ad Sets Dangerous Precedent
Category: elections
How liable are we for the things we don't write on our blogs?
Posted on: September 22, 2007 1:27 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
The Jena Who What Huh?
Category: racism
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson "doesn't know anything about" the Jena Six.
Posted on: September 20, 2007 8:24 PM, by Nick Anthis • 16 Comments •
More on the Congressional Order of Merit
Category: Republican Party
Geez, Congressman Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) sure is a busy guy. Since I mentioned his fundraising scam for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)--the "Congressional Order of Merit"--last month, myriad new reports of Cole's activities have emerged. For proof, just check...
Posted on: August 7, 2007 7:48 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Update: Senate Also Passes CHIP Expansion
Category: health policy
This just in: the CHIP expansion has passed both houses of Congress.
Posted on: August 3, 2007 5:00 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
House Passes CHIP Expansion
Category: health policy
despite Republican opposition to expanded health care access for kids.
Posted on: August 2, 2007 4:50 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
The Congressional Order of Merit, Another Republican Party Scam
Category: Republican Party
Ira Flatow, of NPR's Science Friday, reports on the Science Friday blog about being the target of an interesting Republican Party scam, specifically one involving the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC): The phone message on my machine from the NRCC...
Posted on: July 19, 2007 5:53 PM, by Nick Anthis • 30 Comments •
This Is Me Banging My Head Against the Wall
Category: political interference
The House passes the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act 331-94. Should we be surprised that all 94 nays come from the Republican side of the aisle?
Posted on: March 15, 2007 9:20 PM, by Nick Anthis • 8 Comments •
Extreme Conservative Group May Support Rudy Giuliani
Category: Republican Party
Giuliani may land a surprise endorsement from the Club for Growth
Posted on: March 14, 2007 2:40 PM, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Mitt Romney Buys Conservative Support
Category: Republican Party
As the presidential primaries for 2008 slowly approach, we're seeing the expected heavy swing to the right by several on the Republican side. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, though, seems to have taken things a step further by attempting to...
Posted on: March 10, 2007 4:02 PM, by Nick Anthis • 14 Comments •
Conservative Extremists Get a New Voice at Texas A&M University
Category: Texas A&M University
Texas Governor Rick Perry appoints the chair of the homophobic, anti-diversity, anti-academic freedom, right wing organization the Young Conservatives of Texas as the new student representative on the Texas A&M University Board of Regents.
Posted on: February 19, 2007 7:16 PM, by Nick Anthis • 8 Comments •
"Moderate" Republicans Pander to the Religious Right
Category: Republican Party
As 2008 approaches, many of the Republican contenders for the Presidency will try to paint themselves as moderates. An article in today's Washington Post, though, underlines why we should be weary of their empty rhetoric. Romney, who is expected to...
Posted on: February 13, 2007 4:30 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
John Boehner Selected as Republican House Minority Leader
Category: Republican Party
Although painted as a moderate choice, Boehner's record on key science issues borders on appalling.
Posted on: November 17, 2006 4:22 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Black Tuesday (for the Conservatives)
Category: elections
Four days after the Democrats' impressive Election Day victory, the commentary keeps streaming in, almost to the point of overkill. Today's Guardian, though, ran a particularly poignant piece from Martin Kettle: Every poll for months had signalled a serious Republican...
Posted on: November 11, 2006 7:24 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
2006 More Impressive than 1994, Statistically Speaking
Category: elections
Chris of Mixing Memory points us toward a good comparison of the Democratic victory in 2006 to the Republican victory in 1994. In short, the comparison--located at a Columbia statistics blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science--shows that the...
Posted on: November 10, 2006 9:38 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Beyond Victory: What 2006 Means for the Democrats and for Science
Category: elections
As the sun sets on the conservative movement in America, 2006 marks a new beginning for the Democrats, and hopefully for American science.
Posted on: November 10, 2006 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Politics, Wild West Style
Category: elections
The Republicans have clearly been getting desperate, and one--Rick Green--was apparently desperate enough to punch Texas State Representative Patrick Rose in the face.
Posted on: November 7, 2006 4:05 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
My Election Day Message
Category: elections
There is so much to say about the importance of today's election, but not a great deal that hasn't already been spelled out time and time again. Most importantly, if you haven't already voted, go vote today! Hopefully you'll have...
Posted on: November 7, 2006 6:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Please, Please, No More Rick Perry
Category: elections
This won't be news to anyone from Texas, but our governor, Republican Rick Perry, is a walking disaster. From The Dallas Morning News: SAN ANTONIO - Gov. Rick Perry, after a God and country sermon attended by dozens of political...
Posted on: November 6, 2006 6:40 PM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Another Reason to Vote Democratic
Category: elections
If George Bush is driving our nation down a one-way road to hell, it's the Republican-controlled House and Senate that are enabling him to do this. On October 17th, Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which...
Posted on: November 6, 2006 6:12 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
The Next Target for Global Warming Denialists: Children's Books
Category: global warming
Senator Inhofe is up to his global warming denialist shenanigans again, and this time the target is a children's book.
Posted on: October 3, 2006 7:31 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
The Republican War on Science Paperback Released Today
Category: books
I don't have my copy yet of the latest edition of Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science, but I've been told that it's on its way. And, believe me, I'll bump it up to the top of my reading...
Posted on: August 28, 2006 10:40 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Private Stem Cell Funding Good for Now, Not Forever
Category: stem cells
Wealthy billionaires, including many Republicans, are picking up the tab for US embryonic stem cell research in the face of restrictive Bush Administration policies. Is this a permanent solution, and does this mean that the Republican Party is now an ally of science? Not likely.
Posted on: August 23, 2006 4:07 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Bush to Scientists, Public: Go Fuck Yourselves
Category: stem cells
Bush hasn't used his veto yet, but he's promised to employ it on, of all issues, stem cell funding. Not surprisingly, this is indicative of the general Republican Party attitude toward the field.
Posted on: July 12, 2006 8:51 AM, by Nick Anthis • 12 Comments •
Progress of Stem Cell Bill, and Its Media Coverage, Still Plagued by Problems
Category: stem cells
On the 29th of June, the Senate finally announced an upcoming vote on HR 810, a bill which would overturn President Bush's current prohibitions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The progress of the bill still faces many hurdles, and a recent article in the journal Science did little to publicize them and in fact contained several problematic and even inaccurate statements.
Posted on: July 8, 2006 8:00 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
An Inconvenient AP Story for Republicans
Category: global warming
Yesterday, the AP released a story describing the general approval within the scientific community of the science behind Al Gore's new documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Not to be outdone, global warming denialist James Inhofe (R - OK) released his own press release via the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and it's about as crazy as anything else he's had his hands on.
Posted on: June 28, 2006 6:42 PM, by Nick Anthis • 15 Comments •
House Republicans Vote for More Political Interference in Science
Category: political interference
The Miller Amendment on scientific integrity came up for a vote in the House Science Committee today and was solidly voted down by the Republican majority. In fact, while all Democrats voted for it, all Republicans voted against it.
Posted on: June 14, 2006 8:59 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Senate Stalls Amendment Which Would Tackle Anti-Science Censorship
Category: political interference
In the ongoing struggle against political interference Michael Stebbins of Sex Drugs & DNA reports that Representative Brad Miller (D-NC) has introduced a scientific integrity amendment to HR 5450, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act, which is currently under consideration in the house.
Posted on: June 11, 2006 1:06 PM, by Nick Anthis • 6 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
