You had to wonder about this when you first heard it.

I love the backlash.

From Think Progress

1,200 Harvard Students Demand Investigation Into Jason Richwine's Thesis On Hispanic IQ

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By Jeff Spross on May 19, 2013 at 12:41 pm

Jason Richwine. (Credit: The Heritage Foundation.)

Over 1,000 Harvard students delivered a petition to Harvard University's JFK School on Saturday, demanding an investigation into how and why the school approved a 2009 doctoral thesis arguing that Hispanics have lower IQs. The thesis was written by Jason Richwine, a co-author of a paper by the conservative Heritage Foundation that argued immigration reform would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion. The discovery of Richwine's paper by the Washington Post sparked a firestorm around the Heritage study, and several days later Richwine resigned from the think tank.

Now Harvard students want to know how a thesis built on those views and assumptions was able to make it through the approval process in the first place. "Academic freedom and a reasoned debate are essential to our academic community,'' the petition read. "However, the Harvard Kennedy School cannot ethically stand behind academic work advocating a national policy of exclusion and advancing an agenda of discrimination."

A pickin' and a choosin'

Just a reminder that most people don't believe EVERYTHING in the Bible and they think that makes them reasonable. It's all part of the same story, folks, and if part of the book is nuts, then all of the book is nuts.

The craziness of religion...

God works in mysterious ways.

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Still no new gun laws.

Do you grasp the depths of crazy?

Governor Scott of Florida.

What's going on with Benghazi

Thirty-seven votes to repeal Obamacare, zero votes for jobs.

What it means to be conservative in a time of need.

What it means to be a conservative as opposed to being liberal

Which religion? Just a matter of chance.

Gangsta

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Gun owners want to redirect the conversation

Self-fulfilling prophesy

And P.J. O'Rourke, in case you don't know, is a libertarian.

Meanwhile, in a dimension where stupid is smart...

Some day, when conservatives retreat again...

Just another dreamer...

Maybe in another millennium ...

Republicans will bring down the US government

Do we have a revolution in the making? What will Obama do to maintain the well-being of the U.S. government when the Re4publicans do nothing about the debt limit come this summer?

We have every indication that GOP obstructionism is becoming more firmly implanted in Congress and we are going to get hit hard. Hang on to your hats, folks.

Here are two other indications of how obstructionist the conservatives are becoming...

From Daily Kos
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Senate Republicans continue on the road to intentionally shutting down the National Labor Relations Board this summer. The labor board, which protects workers' right to organize or not as they choose, can't function without a three-member quorum, which it won't have once a current member's term expires. The board is in legal limbo, in any case, with two appeals courts having overturned recess appointments President Obama made to allow it to function despite Republicans blocking his nominations. Obama has renominated the NLRB's current members, including recess appointees Richard Griffin and Sharon Block, and has nominated two Republicans. Mitch McConnell is having none of it:


And the following is from Crooks and Liars
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Heritage Foundation To GOP: Attack Obama, Don't Govern

Jim DeMint's Heritage Foundation is busy at work figuring out how to make sure Republicans are completely marginalized in 2014. As their faux scandals fall apart as rapidly as they're concocted, DeMint's minions are instructing Eric Cantor and John Boehner to please, please just keep attacking the president and forget about governing altogether.

In one Christian children's book...

Is this REALLY the crap we want parents teaching their children? It's pretty damn sick if you ask me.

It is interesting to watch the U.S. in decline...

A lesson to be learned.

Real Time

I tape Bill Maher's Real Time on HBO - haven't watched the show from last Friday, but I will shortly. This looks lie some of the stuff I've been thinking.

From Raw Story...

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Maher: GOP has moved beyond obstruction to treason

By David Ferguson
Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:36 EDT

Topics: bill maher ? michael moore ? republican party

On Friday night's edition of "Real Time with Bill Maher," host Bill Maher and guests filmmaker Michael Moore, commentator S. E. Cupp and New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin discussed the obstructionist Republican Congress and its mission to take down the president by taking down the country. Moore opined that the Republican Party is a "squealing dinosaur" whose time has come.

Maher began the segment by talking about how prices among top health insurers are falling since the implementation of Obamacare.

"They did a test and they put, you know, what insurance would cost if you were a 40-year-old, non-smoker and instantly, the two highest priced insurers went down," Maher said.

"This is the heart of Obama," he said. "This is the heart of capitalism. I'm wondering why the people who love the free market so much are not for this."

"And what about trying to repeal it for the 37th time?" he went on. "Is that a wise use of our time and resources? At some point, obstruction becomes, um, I dunno, treason."

He went on to list how Republicans are blocking the nominations of a new head for the EPA, a chief circuit court judge for the city of Washington, D.C. and dozens of other government posts that are going unfilled because Republicans won't let any of Obama's nominees get voted on in Congress.

"At some point," Maher said, "it becomes more about hating him than loving our country."

"No, they hate America," said Moore. "I think that's really what it is."

He went on to say that "conservatives and right-wingers," as much as they profess to love this country, "they hate it. They hate the government, they hate the people."

The World is coming apart, God's dozing...

Murder is a sin - unless religious leader says it is not.

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