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Islamist protesters fuel political tension over Indonesia's plastic surgery scandal

However, police found that Sarumpaet had undergone plastic surgery on her face at a Jakarta hospital and charged her with spreading a hoax, a punishable offence in Indonesia ... Agency over the scanda... read more

Erasing false balance: the right is more antiscience than the left

I write quite a bit about how rabidly antiscience the political right in the US has become. From the attacks on science by ... and the clinging to them in the face of all evidence and refutation—becau... read more

Reckoning with the God Squad

Four years ago, the poet’s prophetic metaphor became real again and “the great dark birds of history” plunged into our lives. They came in the name of God. They came bent on murder and martyrdom. Yes, ... read more

The Lost Soul of the United States of America

Public sentiment often manifests in funny ways, but what is worrying is that this has not very seriously bothered many of America’s stout guardians of values, its face-saving rhetoricians ... in the h... read more

Lawmaker calls for halt on

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah kisses the Kuwaiti flag before raising it during a flag hoisting ceremony at Bayan Palace yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 3) (Left) Kuwait Times ... read more

Still more evidence that Morgellons disease is most likely delusional parasitosis, 2012 edition

Part of the reason is that the opportunity to discuss it hasn't occurred recently; usually I need some spark or incident to "inspire" me to write about something, and there just hasn't been any Morgel... read more

" VIDEO - BREAKING: Government Releasing 9/11 Video of Pentagon Crash "

CNN's Barbara Starr is reporting that a court has ordered the Pentagon to release Pentagon surveillance video from 9/11 that shows AA flight #77 hitting the building. Judicial Watch has pursued this v... read more

Bernie Sanders formally launches 2020 campaign

The independent Vermont senator who finished runner up to Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination has announced his second White House bid. Israel said its security cabinet on Sunday de... read more

While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower

Over the weekend, two amazingly bad articles were published about climate change. Both were loaded with mistakes, misinterpretations, and outright misinformation, and are simply so factually wrong tha... read more

Copenhagen: The Price of the Atmosphere

These people include ex-lobbyists of tobacco companies who all as a sudden have become interested in climate science, medieval fundamentalists who regard climate change in terms of god’s will to purif... read more

Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards

The documents also give the lie to those who said that al-Qa'eda, the Islamic zealots, would have nothing to do with the brutally secular regime of Saddam. It appears that their shared hatreds - of Am... read more

Episode XLVI: Early morning on the road, but you guys keep talking!

I'm in Syracuse. I had a hellish trip trying to get here yesterday, and now I have to catch a 6am flight back home. I had a grand time with the nice people here last night (including Hank Fox and Carl ... read more