KGB

By tfk on December 4, 2006.

This week's Kansas Guild of Bloggers is up at The Force That Through …

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Attention Kansas bloggers!

Submit your posts to this week's Kansas Guild of Bloggers ASAP! Submissions are due by tonight.

Every week the finest blogging of Kansas gathers at the Kansas Guild of Bloggers. This week TfK will be the guildhall. Emaw from Three O'Clock in the Morning offers a Friday signoff, so go "Leave a comment, and maybe a link." Previous host John from the Blog Meridian writes On clarity, a look at…

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Pre-election purge: The KGB is here

Every week, the Kansas Guild of Bloggers gathers to highlight the finest of Kansasish blogging. This week, we are not surprisingly heavy on the politics. New blogger Howls from Kansas reviews the events that led to this Kansas election becoming interesting. "I LIVE IN A NOISY STATE where the wind…

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Pre-election purge: The KGB is here

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Polls and the line between truth and conspiracy theory

Vaccines and the Republican War on Science

An evolution the GOP likes

Social movements and science denial

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