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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- The festively lit spruce that will light the halls of the Rhode Island State House this December will have a more holiday-specific moniker this year, and one local clergyman is pleased with the governor's decision. In a release sent Monday morning, R.I. Gov. Lincoln...

Corporations aren’t people By Harold Meyerson, Published: November 26 If you thought this “corporations are people” business was getting out of hand, brace yourself. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court accepted two cases that will determine whether a corporation can deny contraceptive coverage to...

DALLAS — This city didn’t murder President John F. Kennedy — a madman with a mail-order rifle did. But for years Dallas has dealt with the stigma that the thirty-fifth president of the United States was gunned down here. On Friday, 50 years to the day after the president was killed, the city...

The Tea Party believes in American values like tradition, property rights, and keeping your word. Or so they say. In 1828, when Frederick County purchased 94 acres from farmers Elias and Catherine Brunner to build an almshouse, the deed stipulated that the land should be “for the benefit of...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., was caught buying drugs as part of a federal investigation into a Washington, D.C., drug ring last month and is being charged with cocaine possession, according to a senior Drug Enforcement Administration official. The official, who was not authorized to...

Or one who's black, or East Asian, or Red Indian. Or Irish. We're pretty familiar with your hatreds and your bigotry, Loaf. Mere repetition doesn't add much. By the way, the OP presents the idea of a teenage, female, Muslim superhero, so the beard and the stoning of "his" wife is pretty...

To say nothing of racial equality! It'll be the death of the nation. I propose that all superheroes should be doughy, pasty-pink lager louts with bad teeth and bulging guts who kill anyone they suspect of non-English values and then go home and beat their wives.

Yeah, well, when that "social engineering" reaches the point of legal, mandatory discrimination against WASP men, I'll weep bitter salt tears for you. Until then, I support your crusade to ensure that children are only presented with WASP men as heroes.

Trial of Bolotnaya 12 seen as a warning against challenging the Kremlin By Kathy Lally IN MOSCOW — The defendants sit in glass cages, bored or distracted, paying little heed to the case. It’s as though they’re extras in a tedious experimental theater production. The prosecutors, two young...

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say - The Washington Post Doesn't anybody remember when Gen. John Singlaub, of Iran-Contra fame, announced the Total...

Who funds the ones who have "no vested interest?" Trying to help some people understand the difference between science and politics. Without much success, admittedly.

He's doing what he can.

Roger that. I think this is an example of science education by the public schools and Star Trek. I do have to quibble with your exposition of "theory," though. All theories are theories. A theory is any explanation of phenomena that is supported by the data. As a theory proves correct more...

Yes, and where will you find epistemology in a university catalog? Under philosophy. And Russell is what? A scientist? I think not.

Yes, they are valuable tools. As is a hammer. But a hammer is not carpentry and carpentry is not a hammer. Logic is a way of organising information. Its formulation considerably pre-dates science. Ironically, logic was used in an unscientific manner for a long, long time. Back in the...

Um. . . there are four states of matter that we know of: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Note the phrase "that we know of." And the dividing lines between solid, liquid, and gas are not as firm as you may believe. Here's a pop quiz for extra credit. Can you define solid, liquid, and gas?

I'm sure you did.

No, you don't. You accept things on data and repeatable, falsifiable theory. That's the precise opposite of faith. Logic and mathematics aren't science. That's why they're called logic and mathematics, and not science.

Um. . . no, it's a mathematical law. Science is not mathematics, and mathematics is not science.

You know what comes next, right? He starts talking about the "laws" of physics, unaware that these so-called "laws" are merely theories, and that the terminology is inexact. The language of science is mathematics, and putting science into words merely turns it into another tool for politics...