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Bush Administration:
Pervasive Political Interference at the EPA
Last week's report by the UCS indicates that the EPA has become little more than another political tool for the Bush Administration.Posted on April 30, 2008 2:58 PM • 3 Comments •
Embryonic Stem Cell Debate Over; Thousands of Researchers Now Jobless
The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.Posted on November 21, 2007 7:54 PM • 22 Comments •
Bush Vetoes Children's Health Insurance Program Expansion
It's time for a few key Republicans to grow a heart and/or some balls and override this veto.Posted on October 3, 2007 2:13 PM • 5 Comments •
House and Senate to Vote on Children's Health Insurance Expansion Despite Veto Threat
Congress appears to be on track for another major standoff with President Bush. The Washington Post reports today that the House and Senate have reconciled their differing versions of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP or CHIP) expansion and...Posted on September 22, 2007 12:23 PM • 1 Comments •
The Bush Legacy: Lowered Expectations
At least Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns didn't do anything warranting a jail sentence.Posted on September 21, 2007 6:01 AM • 0 Comments •
From the Archives: My 9/11 Story
Last year, I recounted my personal experience on September 11, 2001, and I offered some commentary about what that day--and the events of the ensuing year--meant to me and to American politics in general. I've reposted my 9/11 story again...Posted on September 11, 2007 8:46 AM • 2 Comments •
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns
They're dropping like flies now. In another blow to the Bush Administration, The New York Times reports that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will announce his resignation later has announced his resignation (update) today... and it's about damn time. Senator Charles...Posted on August 27, 2007 9:35 AM • 8 Comments •
Bush Administration Bravely Fights the New Communist Threat of Children's Health Insurance
...by placing unreasonable new restrictions on SCHIP.Posted on August 21, 2007 7:50 AM • 3 Comments •
Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
Karl Rove to resign at the end of the month.Posted on August 13, 2007 6:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Interior Department to Correct for Past Political Interference
Repent! Repent!Posted on July 21, 2007 8:39 AM • 1 Comments •
Take Action on CHIP!
Let's get this bill rolling....Posted on July 18, 2007 4:16 PM • 5 Comments •
More on the Bush Administration's Antagonism Toward CHIP
And this administration's amazingly consistent ability to one-up itself.Posted on July 16, 2007 7:35 PM • 1 Comments •
Bush Plans to Veto CHIP Expansion
Tobacco trumps children's health care.Posted on July 15, 2007 12:27 PM • 2 Comments •
And the Saga Continues....
It's YOUR fault that you were being politically suppressed, Mr. Surgeon General!Posted on July 11, 2007 5:37 PM • 2 Comments •
Bush Administration Muzzled Surgeon General
Add one more to the list.Posted on July 11, 2007 9:27 AM • 38 Comments •
Bush Commutes Libby's Prison Sentence
Absurdity. Complete and total absurdity. George Bush, a president who has pardoned fewer people than any president in the past century, today commutes the sentence of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a guilty man who...Posted on July 2, 2007 7:05 PM • 2 Comments •
Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill
President Bush vetoes S. 5 and offers an awful alternative.Posted on June 22, 2007 6:02 PM • 4 Comments •
Abstinence-Only Promoter Can't Keep it in His Pants
On Friday, Randall Tobias--the Bush Administration's chief promoter of foreign abstinence-only sex education programs--resigned from his position as Deputy Secretary of State after getting busted for frequenting DC prostitutes. If your head hasn't already exploded, check out Timothy Noah's humorous...Posted on April 29, 2007 6:52 PM • 5 Comments •
Christopher Hitchens: Karl Rove is an Atheist
In a recent interview published in New York Magazine, writer Christopher Hitchens is asked "Has anyone in the Bush administration confided in you about being an atheist?". His answer: Well, I don't talk that much to them--maybe people think I...Posted on April 29, 2007 1:09 PM • 9 Comments •
George Deutsch to Testify at Upcoming Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing
This should be interesting....Posted on March 14, 2007 1:56 PM • 2 Comments •
Bush Administration Institutes More Political Interference in Scientific Regulation
A new Bush Administration directive serves no other purpose than to further institutionalize Administration interference in science.Posted on January 31, 2007 5:09 AM • 0 Comments •
Another Unqualified Bush Appointee at NASA
They must have a stockroom full of these guys!Posted on January 11, 2007 11:08 AM • 2 Comments •
This Says It All
On Bush and IraqPosted on January 11, 2007 8:26 AM • 0 Comments •
Oversight of Bush Administration High on Democrats' Agenda
The Democrats are already making big plans to investigate some of the Bush Administration's more outrageous instances of political interference in science.Posted on November 20, 2006 5:47 PM • 0 Comments •
Beyond Victory: What 2006 Means for the Democrats and for Science
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 • 0 Comments •
Rumsfeld Steps Down, Bush Nominates A&M President Robert Gates
It has just been announced that unpopular Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is "stepping down". This is no doubt a positive step for the Bush Administration, the nation, and the world as a whole, but it comes as too little...Posted on November 8, 2006 2:22 PM • 12 Comments •
My Election Day Message
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 • 2 Comments •
Another Reason to Vote Democratic
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 • 0 Comments •
Bush Administration Interferes with Science... Again.
Is anyone surprised?Posted on October 31, 2006 10:15 PM • 4 Comments •
My 9/11 Story
When I was a freshman in college, at Texas A&M University, on Tuesday and Thursday mornings I had two classes back-to-back in the same lecture hall. Because of a weird scheduling fluke, these classes were about 45 minutes apart, though....Posted on September 11, 2006 8:46 AM • 5 Comments •
Five Years, Nineteen Days, One Hour, Forty-Five Minutes, and Fifty-Five Seconds
...since Bush announced his restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.Posted on August 26, 2006 8:45 PM • 2 Comments •
Private Stem Cell Funding Good for Now, Not Forever
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 • 1 Comments •
Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Act
After it passed in the Senate on Tuesday, Bush proved he was as stubborn as promised and vetoed HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, on Wednesday. This was another step backwards for science in the US and a...Posted on July 20, 2006 3:33 AM • 1 Comments •
Bush to Scientists, Public: Go Fuck Yourselves
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 • 12 Comments •
Progress of Stem Cell Bill, and Its Media Coverage, Still Plagued by Problems
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 • 1 Comments •
NASA Admits Censorship Occurred
The Bad Astronomy Blog reports that NASA has officially admitted that censorship did in fact take place there recently. In a letter to Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), NASA writes: ...an internal inquiry has revealed that one recent media request to...Posted on June 12, 2006 4:09 AM • 0 Comments •
Bush Science Adviser Answers Questions, but Not the Toughest Ones
I mentioned earlier this week on my old blog that White House Science Adviser John Marburger would be answering questions from the public via Newsweek, and his answers have now been posted. My reactions are mixed, although he was more...Posted on June 10, 2006 12:39 PM • 4 Comments •
