Twilight Zone? Georgia may ban word ‘evolution’ from science classes
Uhhh right…
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — The state’s school superintendent has proposed striking the word evolution from Georgia’s science curriculum and replacing it with the phrase “biological changes over time.”
The change is included in more than 800 pages of draft revisions to Georgia’s curriculum that have been posted by the Department of Education on its […]
Another suicide bombing, more biased coverage…
CNN’s homepage top headline of the day: “10 killed in Jerusalem terror attack.” A tragedy indeed, but why were the nine Palestinians who were shot by the Israelis the other day not the top headline?
This sort of biased coverage is precisely why Americans think that Israel is in fact defending itself, when the reality […]
Ickety continued. Pentagon has *lost* a trillion dollars?
So the news is out that the Pentagon has requested a budget of over $400 billion, right? It seems that since 9-11, everyone has all but forgotten that the Pentagon happens to have lost at least a trillion dollars (some estimates suggest as many as three trillion).
Now let us put that in […]
Ickety. Enron + Bush + Arnie + Recall Connection?
Alternet has an
A friend has died
A friend I did not know died today.
Tom Hurndall, a 22-year old British volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement was getting a child out of the way of gunfire in Rafah (Gaza, Palestine) when an Israeli sniper directly picked him out for a bullet through his head. The sniper has since confessed […]
Bush signs parts of Patriot Act II into law stealthily
Oh boy.
WITH A WHISPER, NOT A BANG
On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers. A White House spokesperson explained the curious timing of […]