The Political Science Guy

Ok, let me see if I understand this correctly: Obama and the Dems took over during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression an...

My heart goes out to the people of Haiti. Hopefully our country can see past ourselves and offer up support to these people in need. Please ...

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Rachel reviews some of the GOP's Internet fails this year: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy

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Considering the Republican party's candidates for President in 2012 (Palin, Huckabee, Romney), this might be the least bad option: Zombi...

If you read this blog, you know that I'm an unabashed liberal. Funny enough, one of my favorite blogs is written by a conservative named...

I almost forgot what it was like to have a President that doesn't disdain science : To improve science and mathematics education for Ame...

This cool video illustrates how new technologies have radically changed our lives in a few short years. Just imagine what it will be like in...

Next time you're craving sushi, think about this : “A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a he...

The conventional wisdom says that atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is generally the result of a modern sedentary life spent eatin...

I caught a super fascinating documentary on PBS last night called What are Dreams? . It focused more on the reasons why we dream, rather tha...

Chase Whitestead and Erick Stroll of New Left Media set out to interview Sarah Palin supporters: Well, that was illuminating. Aside from th...

Are we witnessing the critical unraveling of U.S. society ? NYT columnist Thomas Friedman gives us 6 reasons why our government is paralyzed...

Saturday Night Live parodies the disaster movie "2012" to imagine a world in which Sarah Palin wins the presidency:

My favorite poster from Public Option Please 's (a grassroots organization founded to champion the cause of making health care a right i...

Think Progress caught Faux News using old campaign footage of a McCain/Palin rally from 2008 to make it appear like the crowds Sarah Palin ...

In what's becoming a common occurrence (as evidenced here and here ), South Park spoofs Glenn Beck:

I live in New Jersey, a state which, despite the recent election of a Republican governor, is generally thought to be fairly liberal (8/13 M...

NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof runs through many of the Republican arguments that we've heard ad nausem : Critics storm that health care...

Via Kottke : From a book called Obsolete , a list of things that were once common but not so much anymore: blind dates, mix tapes, getting l...

Several years ago, scientists created a myostatin "knockout" mouse. Put simply, a knockout mouse has had one of its genes deleted....

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The Senate will be taking up health care reform legislation this week. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Americans still divided ov...

NYU Professor of Economics Nouriel Roubini tells us that the immediate economic outlook is not good: Think the worst is over? Wrong. Condit...

As I noted in my post last week , young people tend to be progressive on gay rights issues. Meet Will Phillips, an elementary school student...

Max Blumenthal analyzes Sarah Palin's past, present and future in an interesting piece at HuffPost. A taste: By emphasizing her own cri...

How very Christian of them : The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service pro...

Big news from NASA: There is water on the Moon , scientists stated unequivocally on Friday, and considerable amounts of it. “Indeed yes, we...

Remember that "sick" right-wing protest I posted about last week which featured banners comparing health care reform to the Holoc...

As I mentioned earlier in the week, the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill. What I didn't point out, however, is ...

Proof that Jon Stewart is the antidote to TV for profit sensationalism news. The only "real" news journalist worth watching right...

Rachel pushes back hard against rampant corporatism: Just goes to show how far off the tracks we've gone as a nation when you actually h...

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We're getting close to 2010. Pretty cool vid via Newsweek:

Don't gay marriage opponents realize that it's only a matter of time before gay marriage is legalized everywhere? As the chart show...

In case you didn't hear the big news from over the weekend, health care reform jumped another hurdle (keep in mind that never before h...

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