Dobson Straddles Line of Legality

In the WingNutDaily today, a paper well-known for its integrity and accuracy in reporting, they give air to Dobson's flagrant disregard for the law surrounding non-profit organizations and their abilities to endorse candidates. This year, he's clearly endorsed Newt, while advocating against either Giuliani or McCain. He's done this before, so it's really no surprise. These organizations receive literally hundreds of millions of $ in tax-free donations, and they are able to use it to promote their version of Christianism and influence politics in a blatantly unconstitutional fashion. These frauds should have their tax exemptions pulled immediately.

Luckily, I think their power is on the wane insofar as the public at large's support of them (Barry Lynn cited 17% of people identifying themselves with the Religious Right, but MSNBC seems to indicate it at 16%, either way, this is approximately equal to the number of nonreligious Americans at 14%). Unfortunately, they still retain far too much influence in areas they have absolutely no business influencing: foreign policy on Iran and war-related executive policy.
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Pat Boone Lies; WingNutDaily Spreads

**UPDATE: WingNutDaily removes the bullshit paragraph, leaves the rest of the bullshit article up, and allows Boone to replace one bullshit with another:

With his "The Origin of Species" about to be released, he wrote to fellow British biologist George Bentham, "Thank you heartily for what you say about my book; but you will be greatly disappointed; it will be grievously too hypothetical. It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of species. But, alas, how frequent, how almost universal it is in an author to persuade himself of the truth of his own dogmas. My only hope is that I certainly see very many difficulties of gigantic stature."

Problem is, this quote is a classic quote mine (#2.2), and Boone is too fu*%ing stupid to do real research YET AGAIN! This letter was written before the Origin of the Species was even published! All of his correspondence with Bentham was on the breeding of plants. Stupid bastards did it again.**

Pat Boone breathlessly repeats the old "Darwin recanted on his deathbed" canard in the latest WingNutDaily. Are we surprised? Even other creationists admit this is a fraudulent story, and have the lie included in their "arguments not to use" list (the very first one on the list, in fact), but here we have WingNutDaily's complete lack of integrity shining through. Any wingnuts out there who claim this paper has one ounce of journalistic worth are self-deluded morons.

Write them or call them and ask them why they published this bullshit story:

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(HT: PZ)
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