Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, January 06, 2012 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
The new year is bringing new controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, with two bills in New Hampshire seeking to require teachers to teach the theory more as philosophy than science and an Indiana state senator introducing a bill to allow school boards to require the teaching of creationism. "Teaching students that scientific explanations that are not controversial are controversial is mis-educating them," said Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education.
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Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses by eight votes, the state GOP said early Wednesday, clinching what appears to be the closest-ever margin of victory in a Republican presidential contest. Ron Paul finished a close third.
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on December 31, 2011 | 243 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 05, 2012 | 208 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 03, 2012 | 197 COMMENTS
Greenwald: Why Paul Confuses Liberals
Glenn Greenwald: Whatever else one wants to say, it is indisputably true that Ron Paul is the only political figure with any sort of a national platform -- certainly the only major presidential candidate in either party -- who advocates policy views on issues that liberals and progressives have long flamboyantly claimed are both compelling and crucial. As Matt Stoller argued: "the anger [Paul] inspires comes not from his positions, but from the tensions that modern American liberals bear within their own worldview. Ron Paul's candidacy is a mirror held up in front of the face of America's Democratic Party and its progressive wing, and the image that is reflected is an ugly one; more to the point, it's one they do not want to see because it so violently conflicts with their desired self-perception.
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on January 02, 2012 | 184 COMMENTS
Charities Close Over Gay Adoption
Roman Catholic bishops in Illinois have shuttered most Catholic Charities affiliates in the state rather than considering same-sex couples as potential foster-care and adoptive parents in order to keep receiving state money. "In the name of tolerance, we're not being tolerated," said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Ill."
Posted by diablo at 12:35 PM on December 30, 2011 | 171 COMMENTS
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