Bush Trades in the Big Stick for Big Talk
Some people have been wondering if there wasn't a clearer way for Kerry to articulate why he voted for the authorization for the Iraq War that doesn't feed the flip flop, or nuance memes. Well last...
View ArticleWhy Political Science Isn't
This CBS story where "experts" claim the debate was a tie is a perfect example of why so many people in the soft sciences don't really understand science. The job of a scientist is to explain the facts...
View ArticleDropped the Ball
I think "dropping the ball" should be Kerry's answer to the "flip flop" charge. Bush dropped the ball when he let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora. Bush dropped the ball when he passed on a Pentagon...
View ArticleThe Truth About Malpractice
If your doctor is nervous about John Edwards, you should let your doctor know that malpractice damage caps, or responsibility caps as I like to call them, didn't have any effect on insurance rates here...
View ArticleA Sports Analogy
Some Bush defenders like to say that we can't change horses midstream so we need to stick with the President while we fight the war on terror. I think a better analogy would be to firing a coach after...
View ArticleBush-Cheney Passed on Chance to Kill Zarqawi
Cheney tried to justify the invasion of Iraq by talking about connections between Zarqawi and Saddam. But if Cheney's so concerned about him, why did they pass up on a plan the Pentagon drafted to kill...
View ArticlePirate Television
At times when people have been locked out of the very airwaves they own they often start what are sometimes called "pirate television" stations. In Argentina, for example, Utopia Television was a...
View ArticleOffshoring Speeding Up
In today's San Jose Mercury News is a story that the rest of the media should be covering instead of going on and on about Lynne Cheney. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission issued a...
View ArticleThe New Paper of Record
Knight Ridder's Warren Strobel and John Walcott have a story about the complete lack of planning for postwar Iraq. You already knew about the lack of planning, but this story has some interesting...
View ArticleHow Religious Nationalism Lost in India
Here's an interesting article comparing the defeat of the religious nationalist party called the BJP in India's parliamentary elections to the victory of the religious nationalist party called the GOP...
View ArticleMisery Index Map
In run up to and the aftermath of the election some red state vs. blue state maps and rants were posted. Most of this was done in a spirit of bashing the red states.
View ArticleRacism's Rising Tide
Dave Neiwert has blogged about the cover the rise of the Republicans has given extreme right wing ideologies and organizations like white supremacy and the neo-Nazis. Here are some examples:
View ArticlePfizer Supports Price Controls?
The "American Jobs Creation Act" "allows companies a one-year window to return foreign profits to the United States at a 5.25 percent tax rate, compared with the standard 35 percent rate." Now big...
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