The Bushies’ Dictionary

This column from the Sunday Seattle Post-Intelligencer deserves broad dissemination. I found it over at Peace Tree Farm. We think in language. Language significantly affects the content of our thoughts. Thus, reshaping popular language provides a powerful tool to “win the hearts and minds” of the public. Political conservatives figured this out decades ago, but …

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Scientifically speaking

Are we headed toward Democratic science vs. Republican science? On issues of climate change, it looks like it. And “Republican science” is an oxymoron at best, or a slanted and politicized policy at least. The articles cite a new report which goes into chapter and verse about Administration interference, disruption, or outright denial of scientific …

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