This is a very interesting analysis of Citizens United. 

AsABlackMan comments on I’m Congressman Jim McGovern, and I just introduced two constitutional amendments to overturn Citizens United, get the money out of politics, and restore “We, the people.”

**Edit** So I guess it’s not as unpopular as I thought it would be >_> Thank you for the reddit gold! For those of you who want a TLDR, I’m *really…

Sometimes it feels like this trying to get a meeting with a student. 😉

Dilbert comic strip for 01/22/2013 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

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I’m not sharing this because of the topic or the author’s point of view. Instead, he made a fascinating observation: “How much free speech do we have? It depends on the medium. Maybe the sequence from less to more censored is: 1. Conversation. 2. Email and other private writing. 3. Blog post. 4. Poorly-written book. 5. Article in minor magazine. 6. Well-written book. 7. Article in prestigious magazine. 8. Textbook. From one step to the next (e.g., from conversation to email), views become less diverse.” I am not sure I buy the middle points of his continuum (although maybe he means by “well-written book” something more like “controversial book written by someone otherwise culturally respectable”).

Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » “The Most Influential Tree in the World”

When the figures were published the extraordinary lack of data underlying the blade of the Yamal hockey stick caused a minor sensation. In fact the high point at the end of the graph was shown to have… 

This reminds me of some articles I read back in school about epistemology. The mouseover text on this one is particularly illuminating.

xkcd: Debugger

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I feel as if I learn more from this blog (GetReligion) than almost any other source. Fascinating details.

Media coverage of Roe at 40

As the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision takes place on Tuesday, a majority of Americans – for the first time – believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, accordin… 

I have often been mystified at the way Christianity is portrayed in the media. It’s almost as though those who write the scripts/report the news/craft the essays don’t actually know any serious Christians.

Who Owns “Evangelicalism” in America?Who Owns “Evangelicalism” in America?

A little while ago, I had written two pieces (here and here) making the case for defining evangelicalism according to its theological distin