How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?
A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they…
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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…
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Jews Tell Christians & Muslims To Put Trigger Warnings on Bible & Koran
Some Jews asked Christians to stamp the following warning on all Bibles: Warning: Jews Have Rejected Their Messiah. And they asked Muslims to insert this bookplate into every Koran: Muhammad…
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Let’s Talk About Q Again — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
We talked about Q a little bit a few months ago but it's time for a second look. Since late October 2017, Q has been communicating with members of the…
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SJWs Coming For Mathematics
Stream: SJWs Coming For Mathematics Great news! For those kids who will be taught math by teachers graduating from Texas State University's Math Education program, life just got easier. This…
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Trading Places: Aleksandr Dugin’s Putin vs Putin — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
I used to subscribed to The Jerusalem Post. Then I realized that I could get the real news a lot quicker by buying subscriptions to the NY Times and the…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part II
Read Part I first. On the subject of Islamic violence (see the picture leading the article), Pew says: While overall public views have shifted only modestly, the partisan gap on…
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Debate Analysis & Election Predictions
These are tweets from last night's debate---which I'm putting up the night of the debate. The timing's important because here is my prediction, the last tweet of the night. https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/788933539664232448…
