Rubio Misquotes JFK

“Asked six decades ago, this nation and that generation chose to embrace a New Frontier. In fact, they took up the challenge of a then young president who said, ‘Ask not what your country can do, ask what you can do for your country.’”

— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), while campaigning in Iowa, “presented the 2016 campaign as a generational pivot point, likening his vision for a ‘New American Century’… to Kennedy’s 1960 challenge to the nation to embrace a ‘New Frontier,’” National Journal reports.

Is Scalia a Creationist?

Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges as confronted are any worse now, or alas even much different, from what they ever were.

— Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, quoted by the Washington Post, suggesting he might be a creationist. ThinkProgress notes the earliest Homo sapiens actually lived in Africa about 100,000 years ago.