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  • If we can keep the Obama electoral coalition together and going to the polls, we can enable the Republican Party to disintegrate into one marginalized (@30% vote share) party, and another clutch of conservative but reason-based Republicans looking for a home.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Real Story on Bankster Political Influence 2009

  • But it is not movies like The Muppets that those of us in the reason-based community fear, but the values of selfish, rampant consumerism and corporatism pushed by organizations, like say, the Media Research Center.

    Cliff Schecter: When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection? Cliff Schecter 2011

  • Science/Technology and Rationality: Modernity has negated the role of philosophical thinking and glorified reason-based thinking.

    Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011

  • But it is not movies like The Muppets that those of us in the reason-based community fear, but the values of selfish, rampant consumerism and corporatism pushed by organizations, like say, the Media Research Center.

    Cliff Schecter: When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection? Cliff Schecter 2011

  • But it is not movies like The Muppets that those of us in the reason-based community fear, but the values of selfish, rampant consumerism and corporatism pushed by organizations, like say, the Media Research Center.

    Cliff Schecter: When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection? Cliff Schecter 2011

  • Yet Progressives either ignore these voters, or keep trying to reach them in the wrong way by telling people how stupid they are for believing these lies, and shoving reason-based evidence in their face to prove it.

    Lara M. Gardner: Progressives Must Change Lara M. Gardner 2010

  • Science/Technology and Rationality: Modernity has negated the role of philosophical thinking and glorified reason-based thinking.

    Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011

  • Most of them are nothing more than tired, meretritious assertions that have been thoroughly debunked over and over again by the "reason-based community" (G. Bush's term for the community that he assiduously avoids associating himself with).

    Harlan Ellison on God 2009

  • The inimitable Glenn Greenwald put it best when discussing his own book: I wrote the book for the same reason I blog: because I believe that arguments can be advanced, evidence marshaled and facts revealed which can serve as an antidote to our deeply dysfunctional political discourse and, through reason-based (though impassioned) persuasion, constructively influence our political process.

    Why the book matters 2008

  • The inimitable Glenn Greenwald put it best when discussing his own book: I wrote the book for the same reason I blog: because I believe that arguments can be advanced, evidence marshaled and facts revealed which can serve as an antidote to our deeply dysfunctional political discourse and, through reason-based (though impassioned) persuasion, constructively influence our political process.

    Why the book matters 2008

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