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More than just calling for a ban on assault weapons, Obama moves to reinstate federal research on gun violence over the NRA’s objections

By Mark | January 16, 2013

The gun control debate in the United States went into overdrive today, as the President, surrounded by children who had written letters to the White House about gun violence, called on Congress “to renew a prohibition on assault weapons sales that expired in 2004, require criminal background checks on all gun purchases, including closing a [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other | Also tagged arming kids, Art Kellermann, ATF, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conspiracy theories, crisis actors, data, David Barton, FEMA, gun control, gun violence, guns, guns in schools, knowledge, National Rifle Association, National Violent Death Reporting System, NRA, Obama, research, research findings, Sandy Hook, Todd Tiahrt | 14 Comments

Obama’s fiery response to the Republican budget

By Mark | April 5, 2012

President Obama delivered an uncharacteristically fiery speech the other day, at an Associated Press luncheon. You’ll find the video below, but, first, here’s a clip from an editorial about the speech that ran in yesterday’s New York Times. President Obama’s fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech [...]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Rail, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, Contract with America, defunding public schools, Eisenhower, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal budget, Franklin Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, George Bush, Head Start, Henry Ford, infrastructure, John Boehner, land grant colleges, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, National Academy of Sciences, New Deal, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Paul Ryan, prosperity, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, safety net, Social Darwinism, social security, standing up to the Republicans, tax the rich, taxing the poor, the collapse of the Republican party, the conservative agenda, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to the middle class, trickle down economics | 4 Comments

Turning our backs on space, and ending the American century

By Mark | July 7, 2011

With tomorrow’s launch of the Space Shuttle, the age of manned space exploration, after more than 50 years, will officially draw to a close in America. It’s a sad day, and I think that it speaks volumes concerning where we are as a country. The optimism that we once had as a nation is gone. [...]

Posted in Education, Science | Also tagged Afghanistan, anti-intellectualism, big bang, budget cuts, creationism, dumbing down of America, Gene Cernan, Iraq, James Webb Space Telescope, JFK, Jim Lovell, John F. Kennedy, NASA, Neil Armstrong, putting a man on the moon, space race, tax the rich, Whitey on the Moon | 16 Comments

Anti-science Republicans and their vision for the future of America

By Mark | November 11, 2010

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. [...]

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, Pledge to America, Science, the flood, those anti-science Republicans, Tony Hayward, traditional values | 10 Comments

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More than just calling for a ban on assault weapons, Obama moves to reinstate federal research on gun violence over the NRA’s objections

Turning our backs on space, and ending the American century

Anti-science Republicans and their vision for the future of America

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