Growing Number Of Conservatives Call On Akin To Withdraw After ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comments – ThinkProgress

Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP Senate candidate in Missouri, set off a firestorm today after claiming that women who are victims of   Original post on thinkprogress.org    Comments on reddit.com   

Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives – The Intersection – Discover Magazine

Psychology of Ideology | This is an invited guest post by Andrea Kuszewski, a Behavior Therapist and Consultant for children on the autism spectrum based in Florida, and a researcher an   Original post on discovermagazine.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise. – Slate Magazine

Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. He cited roads, bridges, and schools. Then he singled out the most clear-cut example of how government investment can spark huge business opportunities: the Internet. “The…   Original post on slate.com    Comments on digg.com   

Conservative Christianity’s Marketing Gimmick to Keep Its Old-Time, Heaven-and-Hell Religion Afloat – Belief – AlterNet

The Southern Baptists are staking their institutional future on the idea that patriarchal religion still has a market for some time to come.   Original post on alternet.org    Comments on digg.com   

Powerless: Conservative Failure Returns Us to the Dark Ages – OurFuture.org

This is understatement of the year. more »Summary: This is understatement of the year. DecrechoThe top utility regulators in Maryland and the District accepted a measure of the blame Tuesday for the lingering power   Original post on ourfuture.org    Comments on digg.com   

Conservative Thinktanks Launch Campaign to Turn Americans Against Wind Energy – Environment – AlterNet

Documents show for the first time that local anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry.   Original post on alternet.org    Comments on reddit.com   

NBC Politics – Six-term Senate veteran Lugar defeated in Indiana primary

Updated at 9:50 p.m. ET: Republican foreign policy elder statesman Sen. Richard Lugar, 80, first elected to the Senate in 1976, was defeated in the Indiana primary Tuesday by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who was backed by conservatives ranging from the National Rifle …   Original post on msn.com    Comments on digg.com   

American Sociological Association: Study: Conservatives’ Trust in Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s

Press Release: While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent during the same period, according to new research from Gordon Gauchat, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.   Original post on asanet.org    Comments on digg.com