Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Staks
Professor Stephen Hawking recently stated that aliens almost certainly exist and that it is probably unwise for humans to attempt to contact them at this time. Sure, in the context of his Discovery Channel television series such a statement seems innocent enough, but what the smartest man on the planet didn’t foresee was that every […]
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Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Staks
It seems that Sarah Palin’s 15 minutes of fame is not up just yet. It is pretty well established that she was picked to be the 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate largely due to her strong fundamentalist views. The McCain campaign had hoped to get the Religious Right energized about his campaign through her. While McCain […]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Staks
While intelligence is no guarantee that someone knows what they are talking about, the fact is that statistics show that the more educated someone is the less likely they are to 1. Vote Republican and 2. Believe in a personified deity. Conversely, the less educated someone is the more likely they are to vote Republican […]
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Staks
We have all heard that the holier than thou Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, announced that she will be resigning from the office of Governor in three weeks for apparently no reason. Her press conference was wildly unfocused, vague, and left more questions than answers. This of course has lead to tons of rumors and […]
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Staks
Over the Independence Day weekend, Governor Sarah Palin announced her early retirement from the Governor’s position with a year and a half still left in her term. There has been much speculation on why she would do this when she is also raising money for a possible race to the White House. Palin’s announcement was […]
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Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Staks
One of the reasons why I opposed Barack Obama in the primary was because he strongly believes in compromise. While I also believe in the spirit of compromise, I realize that there is a time to compromise and a time not to compromise. Obama is always trying to compromise and that doesn’t work too well […]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Staks
Rush Limbaugh said it best when he claimed that the Republican Party is divided into three distinct power bases, the Fiscal Conservatives, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Religious Right. George W. Bush was able to convince the first two that they had a strong voice while most of the power during his administration went […]
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