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Houston voters elect first openly gay mayor
Some day, this won’t be news.
National Institutes of Health approves new stem cell lines for researchers
The action followed President Obama’s decision in March to expand the number of such cell lines beyond those available under a policy set by President George W. Bush, which permitted research to begin only with lines already available on Aug. 9, 2001.
Bravo. Science is a good thing.
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Barbara Forrest on the La. Science Education Act
Talk about grabbing the reader from the very first sentence:
Resistance to the teaching of evolution is an integral part of the history of American anti-intellectualism, which stems in great part from religious fundamentalism.
President Obama besieged for reversing Reagan gun control
Here’s one from the you can’t please them all files: President Obama was besieged today at Yellowstone for allowing firearms into National Parks. The President in May signed into law a provision that reversed Reagan administration gun control (yes, that’s right, Reagan gun control) rules which required that firearms in National Parks remain locked in [...]
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Your god isn’t pro-life
Excellent piece by Daniel Florien at Unreasonable Faith.
For years, I’ve had only a few things to say about the heated and contentious issue of abortion. First and foremost, I don’t “believe in it”. As I’ve said before, I am simply unable to think of a set of circumstances where (given the choice) it would be [...]
Hitchens: A man’s home is his Constitutional castle
Christopher Hitchens, writing at Slate: A Man’s Home Is His Constitutional Castle:
It is monstrous in the extreme that he should in that home be handcuffed, and then taken downtown, after it had been plainly established that he was indeed the householder. The president should certainly have kept his mouth closed about the whole business—he is [...]
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Your local GOP makes the KKK look like the ACLU
The Nashville Scene for July 16-22, 2009 contains the annual piece, You are so Nashville if…. Always a fun read (regardless of orientation–political or otherwise), this year’s winner is the title of this post (see the cover art).
Also posted in Entertainment, Humor, Nashville, Social Commentary
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Racism still ‘alive and well’ in the Tennessee Legislature
While we’re on the subject of sad commentaries… It would appear that racism is quite unfortunately still alive and well in the Tennessee Legislature.
The Tennessean:
Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide for Senate Republican Caucus Chairwoman Diane Black, sent the e-mail last month to other staff for Republican senators. It shows a portrait or photo of each [...]
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Why is education always the first thing threatened by budget cuts?
If this isn’t a great national crisis, I don’t know what is. It’s sadly indicative of what our culture truly values when you see stories from across the nation indicating that education is still one of the first things lawmakers want to cut when money gets tight at the state level.
Here in Tennessee, budget shortfalls [...]
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Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners rejecting new gun-carry law
Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners are rejecting the state’s new “booze it and shoot it” law in droves by establishing policies for their business(es) that prohibit the carrying of firearms on the premises. Many are concerned with the obvious (well, obvious to everyone but the NRA’s lobbyists and the lawmakers who take their money, er [...]
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Tennessee House votes to override guns-in-bars veto
The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to override the governor’s veto of the so-called “guns in bars” bill. The Senate is expected to vote on the override this morning.
As I’ve said before, I’m a huge supporter of the 2nd Amendment (indeed, the whole of the U.S. Constitution, for that matter), but at some [...]
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Humor of the day
Quick. I’m having an argument. Name me a GOP policy that rich people hate.
–Roger Ebert on Twitter