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On this day in 1925, the monkey trial began in tennessee. accusing high school teacher john scopes of teaching evolution. a few months earlier, the state had passed a law, against teaching any theory that denied the bible's story of creation. scopes had reportedly considered conspired, i should say, to get charged with the violation and when he was, he went to the american civil liberties union for help. so many folks crowded into that courthouse on that day ed that the judge moved the trial to the front lawn. two years later the state court overturned the verdict in a sensational trial that o...

Means more money you're going to spend on your family. that's the way they see it. >> let me tell you something about christianity. it used to be it was tied to the kind of thing you saw with the monkey trial, suspicion of the east coast, big banks. and in the oldç days, christia were moved by the fact we don't like the big new york bankers who are charging tighter money, harder to borrow money, they're the ones we owe money too, right? >> right. >> so how come it's switched? >> as a matter of fact -- >> because it's effectively done that. >> what you're making the argument for, they're thin...

>> it used to be it was tiedç the kind of thing you saw with the monkey trial. suspicion of the east coasts. suspicions of big banks. and in the old days, christians were moved by the fact we don't know. how come it switched from being a populous christianity to a pro-big business establishment? >> as a matter of fact -- >> it's effectively done that. >> what they're thinking about is the same thing. this big government -- it's government run amok. they believe -- here's what they believe. they believe god is getting smaller and government is getting way out of control. look at the health ca...

shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttle's engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. they'll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosphere, it heats up to about 5,000 degrees on the outside. when it breaks through the atmosphere, ma...

Lofty position as a result of bias. >> i've always believed "the new york times" is the paper of record. that being said i see the "new york times" has become a newspaper with a point of view. that point of view the left. >> it is the story that consults an expert and the expert is at a left leaning think tank. the story that consults an expert and the expert is a left leaning professionor somewhere. >> if those kind of things make the news stories lean just a bit to the left. >> sean: some say the shift can be traced back 10 years to when raines went from being the editor to executive editor ...