Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

More on the Wars Against Education and Science

Posted on Wednesday 31 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

So many examples to keep up with!

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The Dangers of Education

Posted on Monday 29 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s an opinion piece in WaPo from a few days ago that acknowledges that what conservatives fear is true. Washington Post, Paul Waldman, 25 Aug 2022: Conservatives think education is a threat. They’re right.

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Conservatives Against Change, Even as the Planet Burns

Posted on Friday 19 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, Paul Krugman, 15 Aug 2022: Why Republicans Turned Against the Environment In 1990 Congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act of 1970, among other things taking action against acid rain, urban smog and ozone. The legislation was … Continue reading →

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Those Who Would Return Us to the Dark Ages

Posted on Wednesday 17 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The theme of my post two days ago — about the similarity, albeit to differing degrees, between the attack on Salman Rushdie, and the attacks on education and democracy by today’s political right in the US — is the theme … Continue reading →

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Matters of Degree

Posted on Monday 15 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Between the attack on Salman Rushdie, and book banners in the US. Both motivated by religion and ideology to suppress the thoughts of others.

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Non-representative Legislatures

Posted on Saturday 13 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Ten days ago in this post, in the aftermath of the Kansas vote supporting protections for abortion, I wondered this: So what are the justifications of Republican politicians who keep passing or trying to pass restrictions on abortion, when the … Continue reading →

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Abortion Votes and Republicans on Parenting

Posted on Wednesday 3 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

When I opened Facebook this morning the first 10 items were all about the election results in Kansas (from news sources or friends citing them), in which an attempt to remove protections for abortion *failed* rather dramatically — by 60% … Continue reading →

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Facebook Memes and Post

Posted on Wednesday 27 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A collection of saves from the past two or three weeks. This first one has been around for a while, and of course speaks to the evidence of psychological studies…

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What People Know, Think They Know, or Believe, vs. How They Act

Posted on Tuesday 26 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

In particular, about a GOP congressman’s hypocrisy concerning his son’s gay marriage, how the Republican witnesses at the Jan. 6th hearing abandoned their jobs only at the last possible minute, and how people in red states have a distorted view … Continue reading →

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David Brin, POLEMICAL JUDO

Posted on Monday 25 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This is a 2019 book, self-published, subtitled “A Brazen Guide for Sane Americans to Bypass Trench Warfare and Win Our Life or Death Struggle for Civilization.” This is a book full of sound and fury, an expression of Brin’s rage … Continue reading →

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