TomPaine.com is reporting that “Yesterday, opponents of South Dakota’s sweeping abortion ban filed a petition to stop it. Weeks before the deadline and with twice the number of signatures required, the petition was delivered by a coalition of pro-choice groups called theSouth Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families. The petition clears the way for the controversial abortion ban  to [...]
The Red State/Blue State breakdown, using the most recent polling numbers, reveals that our nation has the blues.
January 27, 2006 – 01:35 pm
“…for a long period we acted as if our democracy were something that perpetuated itself automatically; as if our ancestors had succeeded in setting up a machine that solved the problem of perpetual motion in politics. We acted as if democracy were something that took place…when men and women went to the polls once a [...]
January 18, 2006 – 06:54 pm
This was is too good to put in the Asides section. It turns out that Brokeback Mountain has changed at least one mind. Read this incredible comment left by a conservative Christian who changed his mind (originally posted on IMDB.com with reg. required to read it, but you can see it at Daily Kos). Here’s [...]
December 28, 2005 – 03:45 pm
Here, then, is an assessment of the ideas held in balance in the American Conservative Mind today.
December 23, 2005 – 12:36 pm
“Q: What is the purpose of the movement?A: Independence. To extricate Vermont peacefully, legally, and democratically from the United States as soon as possible and create an independent nation-state based on the Swiss model.”From an interview with the guy who formed the Second Vermont Republic
December 21, 2005 – 02:55 pm
For the reasons that follow, we hold that the I[ntelligent] D[esign] Policy is unconstitutional pursuant to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Art. I, § 3 of the Pennsylvania Constituion.
By Kyle
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December 21, 2005 – 01:07 pm
Our political leaders in Washington have done right by us little people once again. To reward all of us hard workers who take time out of our lives to acquire a higher lever of education than is required by the Republic, our wonderful leaders have decided, in a vote that passed the Senate 51-50, with [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in In A World Gone Mad
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Also tagged america, budget, bush, college, conservatism, democrats, Economics, education, intellectuals, policy, Politics, republicans, united_states, white_house
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November 1, 2005 – 10:54 pm
The following is a book review I wrote for a class on the History of Education. The book (as you’ll soon learn) is the story of how the National History Standards came to be. There was a loose format to be followed, but I think the general idea works anyway. Footnotes are excluded.
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History on Trial: [...]
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