Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason

How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?

This tendency to simply deny inconvenient facts and invent a fantasy world isn't new; it's only becoming more heightened. It ran through the Bush years like a dash of bourbon in water. When it became clear that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, the US right simply claimed they had been shipped to Syria. When the scientific evidence for man-made global warming became unanswerable, they claimed – as one Republican congressman put it – ... Full Story »

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Will Leonard
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by Will Leonard - Aug. 24, 2009

Loved the stab at religious nutjobs.

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