On Wednesday’s Morning Edition, reporter Jennifer Ludden was disturbed by what’s happening in science classrooms. Climate change “has been politicized,” and conservatives are pushing “so-called academic freedom bills” to teach both sides of that public-policy controversy. “But critics point out there is no controversy within science. Climate change is happening and it's largely driven by… Read more »
Posts Tagged: confusion
Frustration, confusion mount in wake ICE illegal immigrant releases
State and federal authorities are frustrated with the lack of specific details the Department of Homeland Security is providing about their current cost saving measure of releasing immigration detainees in preparation for today’s sequester. Source: FOXNews.com
Hagel’s Dialectic on Iran: Confusion and Illusion
Fang Zhe/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom Former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) repeatedly fumbled his responses on important Middle East security questions at his confirmation hearing this week. He sought to sidestep Senator John McCain’s (R–AZ) question about whether the surge of U.S.troops in Iraq succeeded. Although he had opposed the troop surge and denounced it at the time as… Read more »
Starbucks’ grande confusion over the fiscal cliff
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has become the latest corporate executive to take to a soapbox on the “fiscal cliff” as part of Maya MacGuineas’s Fix the Debt coalition. His open letter asking his baristas to write “Come together” on their D.C. customers’ cups has launched a thousand quips on Twitter. But beneath Schultz’s anodyne message… Read more »