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August 25, 2006
Incredibly Suspicious
This is quite fishy. In a new program offering grants to low-income college students, evolutionary biology has been removed as an eligible major. The Department of Education claims it was a clerical error, but I'm skeptical that a major in the middle of a list could accidentally be erased, and a major in a topic so politically volatile, at that. It just seems like too much to be a coincidence.
As I was writing this, a tanget came to mind. A couple months ago Stephen Colbert (yay!) interviewed Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican representative from Georgia. You can see it here. The part I'm thinking of isn't the hilariously uncomfortable part when he can't name the ten commandments, even though he's a co-sponsor of a bill to put the ten commandments in halls of justice. The part I'm thinking of is when Colbert asked him what he thought would be a suitable way to tighten the governmental belt to deal with the deficit. Without hesitation, he answered the Department of Education. Now, I didn't expect his response to match what mine would be--like, 95% of the DoD--but his response really caught me off guard. His answer was so confidently to the point, it seemed like he was a member of an established, respectable (in their own minds?) camp that feels the Department of Education ought not exist. Does anybody know if such a group exists, and what their rationale is? I suspect it's a pro-voucher, anti-big government sort of thing, but that's just a hunch. Anybody know?
Posted by mattalexander at August 25, 2006 6:13 PM
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