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Archive for April, 2010

“Noah’s Ark” Supposedly Found, Creationists Discover Carbon Dating

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 28th, 2010. Filed under Evolution vs. ID, Religion, Science

Fox News and Drudge are all over yet another report of the supposed discovery of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey:
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey are the remains of Noah’s Ark.
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Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah’s Ark Ministries International research [...]

Bad News For Incumbents In New WaPo/ABC News Poll

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 28th, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans

A new poll from The Washington Post and ABC News should strike fear into the heart of any incumbent Congressman or Senator:
Members of Congress face the most anti-incumbent electorate since 1994, with less than a third of all voters saying they are inclined to support their representatives in November, according to a new Washington Post-ABC [...]

Peter Schiff: Economy Is In Worse Shape Than In 2008 And Greece Is The Canary In The Coalmine

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, April 28th, 2010. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Peter Schiff, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

The U.S. stock market plunged today on fears about the still-unfolding debt crisis in Greece and, after the close, it was reported that economists in Europe fear that the crisis in Greece could spread to other countries.
And, Peter Schiff, one of the only economists to see the 2008 crash before it happened, said that the [...]

Rand Paul: Trey Greyson Is Being Intellectually Dishonest

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Filed under Politics

Signs Of The Decline Of Organized Religion In America

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Filed under Religion

A new Pew Research polls seems to indicate that there is a definite demographic shift coming in American religious life:
Most young adults today don’t pray, don’t worship and don’t read the Bible, a major survey by a Christian research firm shows.
If the trends continue, “the Millennial generation will see churches closing as quickly as GM [...]

Coming Soon: The “Great” Birther March On Washington

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Mark your calendars for May 29th:
The long-rumored “birth certificate march on Washington” — a project of the original birther attorney, Phil Berg — will happen on Saturday, May 29. Berg is beckoning supporters to the 82-acre President’s Park, right across from the White House.
The event will include a protest of health-care reform [...]

The Roots Of Arizona’s Immigration Law

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, Immigration, Individual Liberty, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

Rachael Maddow did a piece last night about the man behind the recently passed Arizona immigration law that’s well worth watching:

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The sponsor of Arizona’s new “Papers, please” immigration is law is Republican State Sen. Russell Pearce, a politician who was caught [...]

The Floppy Disk 1967-2010

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Filed under Technology

Yesterday, Sony announced that it would stop selling the 3.5 inch floppy disk in Japan:
Sony announced on April 23rd that they will be discontinuing sales of the classic 3.5 inch floppy disk in Japan in 2011. The news marks a major end to a nearly three decade history of the disk type that the company [...]

Quote Of The Day: Immigration Edition

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Filed under Immigration, Individual Liberty, Quote Of The Day

[The Arizona] law is incredibly misguided. Enforcement will be selective, inflaming ethnic and racial tensions. Police resources are better utilized pursuing crimes like homicide, rape, and theft. And the measure’s impact on immigration will be modest in any case.
The only way to reduce illegal immigration is to expand legal immigration; punitive, “supply side” measures will [...]

James Carville And Stan Greenberg: There Was No ObamaCare Bounce

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Elections, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans

Democracy Corps, the polling firm run by long-time Democratic campaign advisers James Carville and Stan Greenberg, comes to a rather morose conclusion about the political impact of the passage of health care reform:
Health care’s passage did not produce even a point rise in the president’s approval rating or affection for the Democratic Congress. Virtually [...]

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