A few days ago, I was jumping around the web, reading the news, when a comment that someone had left after an article caught my attention. A woman had asked what the Republican endgame was. She wanted to know where, if we stopped resisting and allowed them to lead us, the Republicans would take us. […]
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Anti-science Republicans and their vision for the future of America
Posted in Corporate Crime, energy, Environment, Politics | Also tagged American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, anti-science, BP, carbon dioxide, CO2, corporate, Corporate Crime, corporate takeover of politics, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, greenhouse gas, gulf coast, Henry Waxman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, incandescent light bulbs, Joe Barton, John Boehner, John Shimkus, LED light bulbs, military spending, National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, Noah, oil spill, research funding, Science, the flood, those anti-science Republicans, Tony Hayward, traditional values | 11 Comments
Why not cut the military budget?
Fiscal responsibility seems to be all the rage these days. Or, at least that’s what Tea Partiers claim to be motivated by, right? They tell us that it’s high time that we get serious, tighten our belts, and cut “big government” to the bone, before the inevitable happens, and the country goes careening over the […]
Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Arthur Brooks, Bill Kristol, debt, defense spending, Ed Feulner, Joe Biden, lobbying, military, military budget, the cost of war, the desire to strangle Republicans | 21 Comments