Month: February 2015

Edward Gibbon Wept

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, brought a snowball in a plastic bag onto the Senate floor Thursday, carefully removed it from the bag, and lobbed it at a...

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Joke Line is Back With a Man-Crush on Jeb

I don’t know what I thought. I guess I thought that Joke Line had slinked off to some tropical retirement hideaway. Out of sight, out of mind, mainly. But, apparently, he’s back and this time he’s got a...

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Whites Do Not See Racism; Research Does

In a recent poll, while 70% of African-Americans believe blacks are treated less fairly by the police, only 37% of whites feel the same way. Obviously, the rash of media coverage of police killings of African-Americans has had...

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Welcome to Talibansas!

Who cares about the state budget and the economy, much less the unemployment rate? At least, the Kansas Republican-controlled legislature has its priorities straight (no pun intended) on what truly is important for governance:...

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Serious Question

In a recent Public Policy Polling poll, 62% of Republicans either outright rejected the theory of evolution or expressed doubt about it. The number isn’t stable; it is growing. So, as with the rather sudden turn against...

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