Pat Robertson explains why "miracles" tend to happen in other countries like Africa, but not here in the United States. Spoiler Alert: It has to do with education.

Courtesy of Right Wing Watch :   Today on the 700 Club, a viewer asked host Pat Robertson why miracles such as “people raised from the dea...

Female pundit receives death threats for appearing on Sean Hannity show and daring to suggest that educating men would stop more rapes than arming women.

Courtesy of The New Civil Rights Movement : Zerlina Maxwell, a liberal pundit and political analyst, appeared on Fox News‘ “Hannity” last w...

Evangelical homeshoolers rejecting Creationism in favor of Evolution. Possibly the best news of the day.

Courtesy of The Atlantic : For homeschooling parents who want to teach their children that the earth is only a few thousand years old, the t...

School resource officer's gun disharges in high school hallway. One can only imagine how much more often this will happen once we arm our teachers. Update!

School safety officer patrolling the hallways. Courtesy of Poughkeepsie Journal : A Town of Lloyd police officer is on unpaid suspension as ...

Class size not an issue so long as you have "high quality" teachers? On what planet?

Courtesy of the Chicago Teacher's Union :   There's a lot at stake in the closing debate for Chicago Public Schools, which sees elim...

Translation: I want to undermine the public education system, and eliminate teacher's unions, while appearing to empower Alaska parents.

I support letting Alaskans decide whether parents can use state funds to put their children in schools they deem best. #AKLeg — Gov. Sean Pa...

Do you know how you can tell that you are a student at a prestigious university dedicated to higher learning? When they DON'T hire Sarah Palin as the "star attraction" at their leadership forum.

Courtesy of The Ledger :   Southeastern University is gearing up for its annual fundraising leadership event next week, featuring former Al...

The truth behind the push for "School Choice."

Courtesy of Salon :   To still relatively scant notice, the call for “School Choice” or Vouchers continues to play out in state capitols ac...

I was not terribly happy with his job hosting the Oscars, but this quote pretty much makes up for that.

One of my pet peeves when I hear people talking about Evolution vs Creationism is that the argument has been defined as depending on "w...

Let's take a moment to look around and see how Republican lawmakers are currently damaging our country.

These examples come to us courtesy of Salon . First up criminalizing gun control:   In Missouri, state Rep. Mike Leara believes even proposi...

It is hard for me to imagine too many things more enjoyable than watching a young earth Creationist shut down by a Catholic priest.

Gee and look he also used my line that teaching Creationism to children is tantamount to child abuse. I will resist the urge to mention tha...

Indiana teacher who believes gays "have no purpose" suspended.

 As I imagine many of you remember from a previous post , the above teacher, a Diane Medley, was interviewed concerning plans by students an...

Oklahoma where facts are not facts if you don't believe they are facts. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Addicting Info :   Well, the Sooner state is at it again. The latest in their continuing series of “academic freedom” bills is ...

Sarah Palin a visiting scholar at Harvard? Is such a thing possible? No, no it's not.

"Me a professor? Who in their right mind would try to learn anything from me?" The Daily Currant has put out another of its parodi...

Non-believers taking college campuses by storm. Uh oh! Fundamentalist Christian heads to explode in 3..2..1

Courtesy of Salon :   This month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a select group of students will show their humanitarian...

President Obama's Pre-K plan. Enough to make an early learning specialist cry tears of joy. Update!

Courtesy of The Washington Post : President Obama used his State of the Union address to launch a push for massively expanding pre-K and oth...

Trailer for "The Unbelievers" starring Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss.

I know that many people are put off by this kind of an aggressive attack on illogic, superstition, and religion, but of course I would disa...

Missouri Republican Representative wants to alter the definitions of scientific terms in order to make Creationism seem like science. Which it's not!

Courtesy of Mother Jones : Late last month, Rick Brattin, a Republican state representative in Missouri, introduced a bill that would requir...

"The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it." How is it that the American education system seems to have lost the courage to accomplish this?

Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who has written several books on physics and is currently a professor at Arizon...