The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues - same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and ...
Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
“An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country,” Markey said in a statement. “So far, 2010 has been the hottest year on record, and scientists agree arctic ice is a canary in a coal mine that provides clear warnings on climate.” [...]
He said it was “unclear how many giant blocks of ice it will take to break the block of Republican climate deniers in the US Senate who continue hold this critical clean energy and climate legislation hostage.”
Scientific studies link human activity with the phenomena of shrinking sea-ice and yet deniers deny. There are many things in life you can be wrong about and still recover from. These include investing in a bad stock or choosing a wrong spouse. While each has it’s own unique period of recovery, the fact remains that you can lick your wounds and move on if you so chose. Climate change unfortunately does not grant one that same luxury. Choosing to do nothing about a warming planet and melting ice caps is a decision which carries fatal and irreversible consequences.
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I was thinking the very same thing Mario. :( Conservatives can’t just live in their own kick-ass little world. Because when it goes down, the rest of the world goes with it.
One question I have posed in many other places – but have never gotten a satisfactory answer – is whether it’s not a better idea all around to avoid messing up the world just for its own sake? Nobody in their right mind wants to sleep in a bed that’s been peed and crapped in.
Even if human contributions to climate change are minimal, it’s just a good idea not to aggrivate the process. If the deniers think it’s expensive now, how much worse is it going to be in another generation? On the other hand, I have yet to hear from a wingnut who doesn’t believe in doing the right thing for its own sake, either because there’s no profit in it or from the belief that something is being taken away.
Just this last weekend I was discussing global warming with a family friend. He is a conservative christian and does not believe in global warming, believes the earth was created about 6000 years ago..
I used the scientific data approach and his answer was that all the scientists are in collusion with each other. I asked why would they be, what would their master plan be? He said to try to cast doubt in the christian community about the age of the earth and that further scientists are always trying to prove that God does not exist.
I pointed out how science and theology can go hand in hand but he was having none of that and then just started quoting scripture.
Needless to say we moved on to another topic, the heat wave in Russia (which didn’t have anything to do with global warming it was just hot!)
And so for my family friend, I’m afraid he will not believe in global warming until it makes a direct impact upon his existence or comes a knocking at his door
My father, who received an MS degree in chemistry, refused to accept the notion that the sun is a star like the other stars in the galaxy. I found it hard to accept the way his profession and his beliefs were out of sync.
If global warming is a hoax and we follow Gore the worst that could happen is that we end up with cleaner air and water etc.If global warming is happening the worst that could happen is the end of life as we know it.The stupidity of the deniers boggles the mind.
I was thinking the very same thing Mario. :( Conservatives can’t just live in their own kick-ass little world. Because when it goes down, the rest of the world goes with it.
One question I have posed in many other places – but have never gotten a satisfactory answer – is whether it’s not a better idea all around to avoid messing up the world just for its own sake? Nobody in their right mind wants to sleep in a bed that’s been peed and crapped in.
Even if human contributions to climate change are minimal, it’s just a good idea not to aggrivate the process. If the deniers think it’s expensive now, how much worse is it going to be in another generation? On the other hand, I have yet to hear from a wingnut who doesn’t believe in doing the right thing for its own sake, either because there’s no profit in it or from the belief that something is being taken away.
Just this last weekend I was discussing global warming with a family friend. He is a conservative christian and does not believe in global warming, believes the earth was created about 6000 years ago..
I used the scientific data approach and his answer was that all the scientists are in collusion with each other. I asked why would they be, what would their master plan be? He said to try to cast doubt in the christian community about the age of the earth and that further scientists are always trying to prove that God does not exist.
I pointed out how science and theology can go hand in hand but he was having none of that and then just started quoting scripture.
Needless to say we moved on to another topic, the heat wave in Russia (which didn’t have anything to do with global warming it was just hot!)
And so for my family friend, I’m afraid he will not believe in global warming until it makes a direct impact upon his existence or comes a knocking at his door
My father, who received an MS degree in chemistry, refused to accept the notion that the sun is a star like the other stars in the galaxy. I found it hard to accept the way his profession and his beliefs were out of sync.
If global warming is a hoax and we follow Gore the worst that could happen is that we end up with cleaner air and water etc.If global warming is happening the worst that could happen is the end of life as we know it.The stupidity of the deniers boggles the mind.