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Archive for April 20th, 2007

The Burden of Iraq: Lyndon Johnson Redux

Posted in Bush, Iraq, Military Spending, Politics, War, White House, military on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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The President has a strange way of keeping score if he really believes that the surge is working. A significant increase in bombings, including bombs within the highly secure Green Zone, and increased death tolls over the past few weeks seems to be a step in reverse. Unless I miss the [...]

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Doubts Cast on Highly Qualified Teacher Status

Posted in Classroom Practice, NCLB, Politics, education, pop culture, school reform, teaching on April 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »

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Just a couple of things here. First, it is difficult to blame teachers for teaching in compliance with the law. NCLB stresses basic skills and not problem solving, Furthermore, NCLB places an inordinate stress level on teachers, so much so that they have little time to attend to things teachers traditionally [...]

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Texas Gunman At NASA

Posted in NRA, Politics, gun control, guns, pop culture, shooting on April 20, 2007 | 7 Comments »

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clipped from www.reuters.com

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Workers evacuated a building at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and police surrounded it on Friday after reports that a man with a gun was spotted and shots were fired, authorities said.

NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said it was not known if anyone was hurt and Kelly Humphries, another spokesperson, said [...]

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Limbo–I thought it was a Dance done at Parties

Posted in Christianity, atheism, beliefs, bigotry, pop culture on April 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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clipped from www.reuters.com

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.

Pope Benedict, himself a top theologian who before his election in 2005 expressed doubts about limbo, authorized the publication of the document, [...]

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How’s This for Intelligent Design?

Posted in Darwin, evolution, inteligent design on April 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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clipped from www.livescience.com

Since the human-chimp split about 6 million years ago, chimpanzee genes can be said to have evolved more than human genes, a new study suggests.

The results, detailed online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contradict the conventional wisdom that humans are the result of a high [...]

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