Top Censored Stories of 2006

Top Censored Stories of 2005

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(Originated by Nat, slightly edited (not censored , by Adam)

The horrors of December in a one-party state.

I used to harbor the quiet but fierce ambition to write just one definitive, annihilating anti-Christmas column and then find an editor sufficiently indulgent to run it every December. My model was the Thanksgiving pastiche knocked off by Art Buchwald several decades ago and recycled annually in a serious ongoing test of reader tolerance. But I have slowly come to appreciate that this hope was in vain. The thing must be done annually and afresh. Partly this is because the whole business becomes more vile and insufferable—and in new and worse ways—every 12 months. It also starts to kick in earlier each year: It was at Thanksgiving this year that, making my way through an airport, I was confronted by the leering and antlered visage of what to my disordered senses appeared to be a bloody great moose. Only as reason regained her throne did I realize that the reindeer—that plague species—were back.

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The opinion written by Judge John E. Jones III in the Dover evolution trial is a two-in-one document that offers both philosophical and practical arguments against “intelligent design” likely to be useful to far more than a school board in a small Pennsylvania town.

Jones gives a clear definition of science, and recounts how this vaunted mode of inquiry has evolved over the centuries. He describes how scientists go about the task of supporting or challenging ideas about the world of the senses — all that can be observed and measured. And he reaches the unwavering conclusion that intelligent design is a religious idea, not a scientific one.

His opinion is a passionate paean to science. But it is also a strategic defense of Darwinian theory.

When evolution’s defenders find themselves tongue-tied and seemingly bested by neo-creationists — when they believe they have the facts on their side but do not know where to find them — this 139-page document may be the thing they turn to.

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Here’s another article about the decision….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122000532.html?nav=most_emailed
…And here’s an article which details the defiance of the so-called “Intelligent Deseign” backers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122101959.html

Here the Columnist Harold Myerson takes Bill O’Reilly and Fox News to task; AMEN, BROTHER!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122001011.html?nav=most_emailed

First, a Federal Judge demands a briefing in which — presumably — the Administration will have to defend its’ program….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122102326.html
Second, a panel of judges from the 4th circuit — the Nation’s most reliably consesrvative circuit — has declined to sanction a change of the charges against Jose Padilla. Will Bush II defy the Judiciary?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122101524.html