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Amazingly, Harrington High School will not be prosecuted for spying on its students at home through school-issued laptops and creating child porn in the process...
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It's awfully hard to come up with ways to combat global warming when politicians are harassing climatologists for daring to conduct their research and find proof that the planet is heating up.
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What do most atheists actually want? Surprisingly for many theists, it's not the abolition of faith...
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For appearance of factual correctness, insult both sides of argument regardless of facts, rinse, repeat, sell book.
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Germans are rallying against keeping their nuclear power plants open solely out of fear whipped up by environmental activists.
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Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.
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According to the pope, his senior advisers, and ardent supporters, the Catholic Church molests kids because... atheists were literally Nazis?
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Blasphemy is an important tool in a secular society, but it's not a good way for angry religious zealots to engage in a low brow tit-for-tat.
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Sometimes ideas advocated as dangerous and subversive are just poorly thought out notions in search of better marketing.
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The Discovery Institute needs a scapegoat for everything wrong with the world today. And surprise, surprise, it's always Darwin's fault.