FLASH: Burris won’t run next year!
9 comments July 9th, 2009
 The Sun-Times has the SCOOP.
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Uh-oh! It’s worse than I thought! Not even one-third of Americans believe in evolution
25 comments July 9th, 2009
 The RESULTS of a new Pew science survey are pretty scary.
 Which brings to mind a few points I made in a post this past winter concerning an earlier poll on this subject. Principal among them is that education is a STRONG INDICATOR of which side you take in the argument over evolution.
 The less education you have, the less likely you are to believe in evolution. And, of course, if you’re schooling has been relatively advanced, you’re far more likely to take the opposite view.
 It’s also worth noting that a survey conducted three years ago in the United States, Japan and 32 European countries SHOWED that only Turkey, where Islamic fundamentalists hold great sway, has a lower percentage of people who believe in evolution than America does.
A tale of two videos
2 comments July 9th, 2009
 Our first selection, folks, is a Republican TV ad that features footage of newly-seated U.S. Sen. Al Franken delivering what seems to be a wild, perhaps angry, rant about something or other:
 This next video reveals the source of the footage the Republicans used in their effort to misportray Franken:
 (Hat-tip to DustyRice.com)
Will Pope Benedict tell Obama he’s just too conservative on certain issues?
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 E.J. Dionne sees an ironic backdrop against which Pope Benedict XVI will meet tomorrow with President Obama:
Obama will have his audience with Benedict just three days after the release of a papal encyclical on social justice that places the pope well to Obama’s left on economics. What a delightful surprise it would be for a pope to tell our president that on some matters, he’s just too conservative.
The disjunction between Vatican attitudes toward Obama and those of the most conservative forces inside the American Catholic Church has been obvious from the moment Obama won election.
 Read the whole thing HERE.
