Here’s an interesting bit found via Google News, it looks like people are once again questioning the all powerful theory of evolution.

Parents in a rural Pennsylvania town are mounting the first legal test of the controversial theory of the origin of life known as intelligent design.

Eleven parents are suing the Dover school board for requiring teachers to cast doubt on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and to offer intelligent design as an alternative.

The landmark case, dubbed Scopes II, comes eight decades after the infamous Scopes “monkey trial” in which a teacher named John Scopes was convicted of illegally teaching evolution in a Tennessee school, rather than sticking to the biblical version of the creation. Lawyers on both sides expect the case to go all the way to the US Supreme Court.

What could the horrid, fatal, and otherwise not very nice statement have been?

“Because Darwin’s theory is a theory, it continues to be tested as new evidence is discovered. The theory is not a fact. Gaps in the theory exist for which there is no evidence . . .” the statement says.

Yep, that’s awful stuff alright. Happily, it looks like the evolutionists’ lawyers are exceptionally bright:

The parents’ lawyers told the court in the nearby city of Harrisburg that intelligent design was merely “a 21st-century version of creationism”.

That’s enough to make you rethink going to law school ;)

It’s true – Cindy Sheehan was arrested today for protesting without a permit. After recieving three warnings from the police, she still refused to move away front the very front of the White House, where she was loudly chanting with 200 other protestors. Reuters reports:

...slogans ranged from “Mothers say no to war” and “Liar, liar, Iraq’s on fire” to “War is terrorism with a bigger budget.”

“It’s a very powerful protest to tell the Bush administration to end the war in Iraq,” Dobbs said.

Yeah right. Although the offence apperently carries no more then a $50 dollar fine, it says a lot about their campaign.

Cindy Sheehan, along with about 50 other anti-war protesters, were arrested today while protesting in front of the White House.

Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who became a leader of the anti- war movement following her son’s death in Iraq, was arrested Monday along with dozens of others protesting outside the White House.

Sheehan, 48, was the first taken into custody. She smiled as she was carried to the curb, then stood up and walked to a police vehicle while protesters chanted, “The whole world is watching.”

Click here for the entire story.

This is a think about it article from USA Today. More later on Agent Tim Online.

It looks like New Orleans isn’t out of the water yet. In fact, she may be under water again due to hurricane Rita.

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Rita’s steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city’s lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans’ flooding nightmare.

With thousands of people heading north, away from the coast and hurricane Rita, you can imagine the massive traffic jams on the Interstate. And as if that’s not bad enough, a bus exploded on Interstate 45 killing 24 people…

Early indications were that the bus caught fire because of mechanical problems, setting off passengers’ oxygen tanks, Peritz said. He said the brakes may have been on fire.

The bus was engulfed with flames, causing a lengthy backup on Interstate 45 already congested with evacuees from the Gulf Coast. The bus was reduced to a blackened, burned-out shell, with large blue tarps covering the bodies. About 20 emergency vehicles surrounded it.

I was on Albert Mohler’s radio show on tuesday talking about blogging. Check it out!

My Dad will be there as an officer during the anti-war protests (yes, the guys in mob gear will be there). Really, how much does this say for those anti-war?

RedState is getting things together, and posting a whole lot on Cindy Sheehan...you really should check it out.

I was really blown away at one of the groups who will be there at the protests: A.N.S.W.E.R.

ACT NOW TO STOP WAR AND RACISM [had to throw that in, didn’t they?]

Seriously, these people will make you gag.

Who’s to blame for Americans dying in Iraq? Republicans? The President? Nope, none of the above. This article hits the question on the nose in a way I’ve never before heard. Be sure to read the end. Big hat tip to Rebelution.

Recent decisions by federal judges that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional due to the phrase “under God” has predictably put conservatives in a tizzy.

But Alan Bock, in his brief article The Pledge: The Real Objective, explains why conservatives should not object to these decisions. The reason has nothing to do with any mention of the word “God,” either. For, as he writes:

It’s not the “under God” part I object to; although I can see an abstract argument that this is a first step on a slippery slope toward establishing a religion, it really isn’t. If I thought it really meant the nation was to submit itself to God, which would mean a lot fewer wars of choice and a lot less stealing in the “public interest,” I might even be enthusiastic. But this formulation is one of vague public piety more meant to imply that God is on our side than to express fealty to His commandments.

Bock explains the real reason why conservatives should object to the Pledge:

I object to the very idea of making students “pledge allegiance” to a rapacious state mechanism – and that is unquestionably what the pledge was designed to do, to encourage an attitude of unquestioning obedience that is unworthy of a free people.

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In a country founded on “unalienable rights” of individuals, in which the government’s job is supposedly to “preserve these rights” and not much else, the government should be pledging allegiance to citizens and their rights, not the other way around.

Bock then goes on to explore the origin of the Pledge. Not many people know that it was actually written by Francis Bellamy, an “unapologetic socialist” and former Baptist minister who was removed from his position for using his pulpit and sermons as an opportunity to push socialism. Bellamy later tried to advance his socialist agenda through the public schools, and Bock believes the forcing of students to recite the Pledge was “unquestionably part of his campaign.”

The article is certainly interesting—its only downside is that it is too brief and doesn’t address other issues that can be raised. But certainly, it ought to make conservatives think twice before they gripe about court rulings against the Pledge, or even recite the Pledge themselves.

What happened in New Orleans is certainly a tragedy, but at least there are some heartwarming stories like this:

Day after day, for more than two weeks, the 76-year-old man sat trapped and alone in his attic, sipping from a dwindling supply of water until it ran out. No food. No way out of a house ringed by foul floodwaters.

Without ever leaving home, Gerald Martin lived out one of the most remarkable survival stories of Hurricane Katrina. Rescuers who found him Friday, as they searched his neighborhood by boat, were astounded at his good spirits and resiliency after 18 days without food or human contact.

. . . .

They found Martin sitting in a chair in the sludge-covered kitchen, partially undressed in an effort to keep cool. After 16 days in his attic, he had descended to the ground floor two days earlier when the floodwaters — once up to the ceiling — finally drained, even though the house remained surrounded by several feet of water.

Incredibly, Martin — who ran out of his gallon-and-a-half water supply on Thursday — was able to walk out of the house with just a bit of assistance.