Yale University has been doing some very enlightening research into how individuals and/or groups tend to be suspicious of information that contradicts their worldview and open to information that supports it. We live in a time when one only has to type the correct assembly of words into a Google search field to ‘solidly’...
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Have you ever been to a southern religious revival? If you have, then you know full well that hell, fire and brimstone have a way of inspiring passion amongst the masses. Screaming, laughing, crying, speaking in tongues, snake handling, and rolling in the floor feel-good passion. It’s an awe inspiring sight for any outsider....
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“I like Obama, but I don’t agree with everything he does.” This phrase seems to have become the greeting call of the Left. Now more than a year into the Obama administration, it is blatantly obvious that Barack Obama sits much more Center than our current environment of political polarity was prepared for. Is...
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Political and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds. Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher...
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TBT is now looking for writers/bloggers. If you consider yourself a well written, outspoken and opinionated enthusiast… you might just be who we are looking for. Applicants must be able to give as good as they get, because the whole point of TBT is to open minds through sharing in a COMPLETELY open arena....
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Turbulent black tea is where right meets left… east meets west… yin and yang collide. Daily news and opinion feeds will be provided by both regular and guest bloggers from all walks of life and ALL political points of view. Member responses should and will be just as diverse. Consider this the free-for-all every...
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No rocky mountain high here. Though it does seem to be raining fire in the sky for home owners nationwide. By the end of the year, economists predict 2.4 million borrowers could lose their homes, according to the Times. That would be an increase from 2.1 million foreclosures and short sales in 2009. -...
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Ten Democratic senators, led by Colorado newcomer Michael Bennet, is asking Senate Majority Harry Reid to include a government-run insurance plan, or public option, in the package that Reid is negotiating with House leaders and the White House to present at the bipartisan health care summit planned for next week. - Democrats Trying To...
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Will Joe the plumber (who isn’t really Joe the Plumber) be one of our next presidential candidates? One has to ask, would he then be Joe the Candidate who really isn’t Joe nor Candidate? Hmmm. Deep thoughts. Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher interviews with Fox’s Sean Hannity.
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Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication
