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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Today in history

May 5th is the 80th anniversary of the arrest of John Scopes, the Kansas school teacher who was tried and found guilty of teaching evolution in a public school. Most likely you know it as that one play you read in high school not by Shakespeare.

Read more about it here.

Who would have thought we'd still be fighting the same case 80 years later.