Honoring Darwin Day

On February 12 we’ll commemorate the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a celebration around the world known as Darwin Day, to appreciate the advancement of human knowledge and the achievements of science and reason. It must also be a day when we push back against the politicization and undermining of science by ideologues and zealots. . .

Unfortunately, too many politicians are gripped by an anti-science fervor. . .

Last year, [Representative Pete Stark (D-CA) California’s 13th district and the only self-described non-theist in Congress] introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives to designate February 12 as Darwin Day in recognition of Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol of the achievements and importance of reason, science, and the advancement of human knowledge.

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[White]-Wing Continues To Deny [White]-Wing Terrorism

To hear [the ‘political whorehouse’ that is Faux] News, AM radio and the [Reactionaries] speak of it, you would not think there is a problem with domestic terrorism in this country. Rather, you would be convinced that all terrorism is Islamic in nature and targeted only at our FREEDOM. This is a far cry from reality, however, as there have been numerous counts of domestic terrorism both successful and thwarted in just the last 20 years. Almost all of it based on [White-]Wing rhetoric and politics.

But “numerous” really doesn’t capture the essence of just how much violence emanates from the Right. The Southern Poverty Law Center has compiled a handy list of incidents.

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