Our Version of "Truth"

I tend to be skeptical of causes or organizations that include the word
"truth,"  as in
href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth">Swiftboat
Veterans for Truth
.



But I suppose that if one side does it, the
href="http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2007/01/this_is_all_about_the_truth_a.php">other

can, too; so, here goes: "".


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Siris has a nice short post on the use of "truth" in discourse:
I long ago noticed that David Sloan Wilson was a contributor to The Huffington Post.
Several commenters on earlier posts have suggested that I am claiming that religious truth claims are the same as literary truth claims.
Why do so many of our political leaders support creationism? Here's a disturbing glimpse of the way the neo-conservative elite thinks, discussing specifically Irving Kristol: