Haim Beliak finds it unacceptable that the Jewish community would allow attacks on Barack Obama’s faith to continue - especially since it is based on falsehoods.
Richard Silverstein points out the power of blogs to force accountability among leadership.
Who said God doesn’t like science?
FOX News, apparently, can’t understand faith that doesn’t follow blindly anymore than they [...]
The delegate counter has been updated. I’m working today to find a way to make the counters update automatically. As of today, the delegate count is as follows:
Democrats:
Clinton: 232 (needs: 1,793)
Obama: 158 (needs: 1,867; trails by 74)
Edwards: 62 (needs: 1,963; trails by 170)
Republicans:
McCain: 97 (needs: 1,543)
Romney: 74 (needs: 1,566; trails by 23)
Huckabee: 29 [...]
In an event where no Democrats were supposed to campaign in Florida, Hillary Clinton proved she is Slicker-than-Willie. While she didn’t “technically” campaign in Florida, she held two fundraisers there and a rally immediately after the polls closed. I can just hear it now, “It all depends on what your definition of ‘campaign’ [...]
It’s the day after the last George W. Bush State of the Union address. Here’s what (some) people are saying:
Can I sell you something? The President as a failed salesman.
Even by moderate standards, George Bush has been a failure.
Is Bush obsessed with earmarks (Hint: Only if the Congress is run by Democrats)?
Witness [...]
Kathleen Sebelius delivered the SOTU response:
“These are extraordinarily challenging times, both at home and abroad. To meet those challenges, the American people expect their leaders to resolve their differences and put partisanship on the back-burner. They demand leadership focused squarely on solving our problems, making the most of our opportunities, and moving America forward. That [...]
He still doesn’t get it. The President’s final State of the Union address, and President Bush apparently thinks that he is “the decider“.
Think Progress has a copy of the address. Some huge nits follow:
In the work ahead, we must be guided by the philosophy that made our Nation great. As Americans, we believe [...]
It looks like Democrats killed the cloture vote on the FISA bill that would give telecoms immunity.
Tonight is the State of the Union address, but Bob Villa is no where to be found.
New York’s NOW chapter is mad that their candidate didn’t get Ted Kennedy’s endorsement. Welcome to democracy and pluralism.
The Republican campaign [...]
Hillary Clinton her hiney still stinging from the first-class spanking administered by Barack Obama in South Carolina, is busy being the first candidate to violate her campaign promises.
Yes, Hillary Rodham Clinton - already taking Gold in the First-to-go-Negative Exercise and the Most-Tangled-Reconstruction-of-an-Opponent’s-Statement low-ball contest - is going for the trifecta. She’s campaigning for Florida. [...]
A quick stab at the deep is kind of long, but makes good reading.
Well, the worst case of scope insensitivity I’ve ever heard of was described here by Slovic:
Other recent research shows similar results. Two Israeli psychologists asked people to contribute to a costly life-saving treatment. They could offer that contribution to a [...]
The chief economic problem of the 1970s was the phenomenon that came to be known as stagflation. Stagflation is the simultaneous onset of inflation combined with a stagnant economy - particularly with slow growth combined with high unemployment. Sorry, but this is going to be a long one.
In normal economic times, inflation and [...]
