Republicans Angry With Bush. “The Republican Congress is spending at twice the rate as under Bill Clinton, and President Bush has yet to issue a single veto,” Paul M. Weyrich, national chairman of Coalitions for America, said at a news briefing with the other five leaders. “I complained about profligate spending during the Clinton years but never thought I'd have to do so with a Republican in the White House and Republicans controlling the Congress.”

“Conservative groups break with Republican leadership” [Daypop Top 40] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

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i'd say 'just deserts' but everyone in the world is suffering the idiotic grandiosities of this administration.

Cloned embryo implanted in woman [Ananova News]

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hmm, this is a bit odd, no? does anyone believe it?

what's going on there eh?

i'll have to look on monday, probably some bot mischeif.

Doing the math on attrition. Critical Mass typically concentrates on the problems plaguing the academic humanities and some of the social sciences–that's mostly a matter… [Critical Mass]

i had expected news to break in the national newspapers by now that the french are considering indicting vice president dick cheney for bribery in a nigerian oil scam. however, there is nothing. not even in the post, and when you use google news, you find very few mentions at all…

http://www.masnet.org/articleinterest.asp?id=799
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/06/1550243

Replacing Science with Politics: Peer Review Endangered. More commentary on this Adminstration's plan to control peer review of federal agencies through the OMB. If this goes through, it could have a devastating effect on science in the US. When Bush speaks of 'sound science' you know he means exactly the opposite. It makes it a lot easier to understand him when you know that his actions are 180 degrees from his words. But what do you expect from a man who believes the jury is still out on evolution. A more anti-science president would be hard to find. [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]

Some skin scrapings too?….. Hello Gattaca : “The federal government is planning to overhaul its employee drug testing program to include scrutiny of workers' hair, saliva and sweat, a shift that could spur more businesses to revise screening for millions of their own workers.” [MetaFilter]

to me personal manifestations of faith, belief are fine and good, it is part of the freedom of expression. my problem is when power becomes involved and forces students or anyone really to act like they believe or accept the presence of a belief in their life on inequitable terms, such as a state or institution forcing or supporting beliefs or faiths against the will of some of its population.