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Obama Wants Statisticians!
"Politics as done by Martians." That's Peggy Noonan's phrase, to describe President Obama's call for and use of statisticians and data miners in his re-election campaign. The hiring of such…
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Reading Spencer’s Radiation Paper; Polar Bears Flap: Scientist Under Investigation
Thanks to all the readers who have altered me to Roy Spencer and William Braswell's new paper, "On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy…
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The Absurdity Of The Budget Debate
The president makes an appearance at La Raza---which stands for The Race: which race? the race---and announces that it would be keen if he followed Woody Allen's advice and dictated…
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The Case Against Raising Taxes: Spending Drives Debt
The argument is simple: let the government raise taxes (Obama's "balanced" approach), and the government will not only spend all of this increased revenue, but will spend more than that,…
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David Stove, PMS Admakers Apologize For PMS Apology Ad, San Franciscan Criminals, More
David Stove David Stove has a posthumous essay, put out in book form: What’s Wrong With Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment. There is a review at…
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Does Exposure To American Flag Shift Support Toward Republicanism?
It was just two red-white-and-blue weeks ago that we learned, via some Hahvard dons, that attending Fourth of July parades was likely to make one develop Republican sympathies. This finding…
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One Out Of Four, Most Used Statistic
Were you aware, and did you know, that one out of four Americans: are obese (a rate matched by their dogs) will struggle with hunger will contract a STD will,…
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Some Common Global Warming Fallacies
The level of debate on global warming is shriekingly poor. Not that I have any hope of convincing the world to reject bad logic, but here are some of the…