Tag: Republicans

Religion Links

Feb 12, 2014

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Ecclesia, Gender and Sex, History, Links – Religion, Religion, Sociology, Theology, Trends: Social

1. Business Insider: A Fascinating New Poll Shows That Americans Are Losing Faith In God A new Harris Poll released today reveals that only 74% of Americans believe in God, an 8% decline since 2009. Before today, U.S. adults had remained fairly consistent in their religious beliefs — 82% of U.S. respondents previously reported that…
Science and Technology Links

Feb 1, 2014

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in Evolution, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Human Progress, Links – Science and Technology, Politics, Public Policy, Science, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

I've gotten very behind on my links pages. Here is my attempt to catch up on science and technology links. Sorry for the length, but there is some good stuff here. I'll have another post with environment links shortly. 1. Ancient Origins.net: Entire Neanderthal genome finally mapped – with amazing results This incredible research has…
How Republicans And Democrats Ended Up Living Apart

Nov 29, 2013

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mwkruse

in Culture, Demography, Politics, Sociology

NPR: How Republicans And Democrats Ended Up Living Apart … It remains to be found out how many people, if you asked them, would say that they had moved or wanted to move because of politics. Liberals threaten to every four years if the Republican presidential candidate wins, but few actually make good on it.…
Saturday Links

Jul 27, 2013

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1. Mark Buchanan asks Is Economics a Science or a Religion? 2. Poverty has moved to the suburbs I don't think this should be seen as necessarily a bad thing. A few decades ago, the idea was to "warehouse" the poor in large urban complexes. There has been an intentional effort at dispersal through various…
Saturday Links

Feb 23, 2013

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1. Christian History magazine has an entire issue devoted to Christians in the New Industrial Economy: The World Changed, the Church Responded. It is a priceless collection of essays on how various religious traditions responded to (or failed to) the challenges of the Industrial Revolution. Issue 104 examines the impact of automation on Europe and…
Politicized Christians, Symbolic Hostility, and an Israeli Web-Designer

Feb 8, 2013

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Immigration, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Sociology

Many conservative Christians have embraced government as a tool for achieving their moral vision for society, a mindset that dates back to at least the 1970s. Many people are now questioning the wisdom of this alliance. Stephen Prothero recently wrote, "Americans have historically opted to split the difference between living in a nation in which…
Saturday Links

Dec 8, 2012

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in Business, Christian Life, Demography, Economic Development, Economic News, Economics, Education, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Links – Saturday, Politics, Social Media, Sociology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction))

Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed. Here are this week’s Saturday links. 1. To celebrate the Christmas season, Deck the Halls with Macro Follies 2. The Explosion of 15th Century Printing: A Data Visualization “… Drawing on data from the [Harvard] university’s…
Population Density and Political Preference.

Nov 27, 2012

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mwkruse

in Demography, Politics, Sociology

Imagine you live in rural Montana. One hot August afternoon, you barbecue some meat on a grill. Your nearest neighbor, two miles away, decides to do the same. In fact, all your neighbors in a several square mile area … all two or three dozen of them … decide to barbecue that afternoon. Your individual…
How Science Explains America’s Great Moral Divide

Oct 4, 2012

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Politics, Sociology

Scientific American: How Science Explains America’s Great Moral Divide Researcher Jonathan Haidt delves into the psychology of red state/blue state, and offers hope for reconciliation. Jonathan Haidt is concerned, like many Americans, with the way our country has become divided and increasingly unable to work together to solve looming threats. Yet, unlike most Americans, he…
Grand Racist Party?

Aug 22, 2012

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mwkruse

in Politics, Race, Sociology

Economist: Grand Racist Party? W. W. Houston CHRIS HAYES, host of MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes", said on air this past weekend, "It is undeniably the case that racist Americans are almost entirely in one political coalition and not the other", by which he means most American racists lean right, not left. This has since…