I spent a little time today watching the United Nations General Assembly with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I find it very disturbing that he seems to be implying that democracy is the cause of strife and poverty in the world when it was the enlightenment and democracy that promoted the majority of the world’s greatest revelations.
A federal judge in Southern California has declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips on Thursday granted a request for an injunction halting the government’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays in the military.
How should we react to news that the world’s fourth largest lake is rapidly dying before our eyes and that practically nothing is being done to stop it?
For quite some time now, the evidence that the Earth is warming up has been piling up. Study after study has shown this, and that’s why the vast majority of scientists agree on it. And now, to pile on even more, a large NOAA study has been released reiterating this fact.
On this day in 1798, President signed The Alien and Sedition Acts into law, making it illegal to criticize the government, any elected official or any appointed official. At that time France and the United States were in a heated conflict. Just 22 years earlier they were allies in American Independence. The conflict put a [...]
The holiday weekend marks 234 years since Thomas Jefferson’s draft of The Declaration of Independence was adopted. This morning NPR, as they have for the past 22 years read it aloud over the air. Hearing the text over the air reminded me of how many people have been referring to this document and even waving [...]
The Texas Republican Party has unveiled their election platform and it seems they’ve gone even further to the right. Plus they’ve added some nice woo as well. Like their plan to “oppose the implementation of one world currency”.
Welcome to the Beta test of the Michigan Skeptics site! Feel free to look around. There isn’t much yet. The forum should be working though so feel free to register and say hi! I expect to have the site and group completely within a week or two. As a new group we’re also looking for [...]
