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For a smart guy, Andrew Sullivan sure says some dumb things. Like this, where he sarcastically refers to Rick Santorum's latest attack on Bob Casey as "Christianism in its finest hour." Please. We can all agree Santorum is getting desperate....
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"I'd like to welcome President Clinton. ... And I see she's brought her husband." - Mick Jagger, at Bill Clinton's 60th birthday bash on Sunday....
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Anyone still interested in tracking what's left of the Katherine Harris for Senate campaign can peruse this profile in today's Washington Post and/or this one by Jim Stratton in the Orlando Sentinel. In the WaPo story, Darryl Paulson, a political...
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Headline from USA Today: If Dems take over the House ... Headline in the Washington Times: Democrats wait in the wings with subpoenas...
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How stupid does Rod Blagojevich think the voters of Illinois are? There's a concept called "conflict of interest" which the public understands pretty well and most politicians treat with a certain amount of seriousness. Entering public life doesn't mean that...
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In addition to the new chart of 2006 House races that went up last week, yesterday we put up a chart of the most competitive 2006 Senate races and all of the 2006 Governor's races. You can find all the...
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Hard to believe, but true: The 2008 John Kerry for President juggernaut just keeps on a hummin'....
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Today E.J. Dionne bashes Republicans for running negative, racist ads, highlighting the RNC ad against Harold Ford in Tennessee that has received so much attention from the media elite: And there is what will, sadly, become the most famous advertisement...
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Veteran Iowa political reporter/columnist David Yepsen writes today: Democratic prospects are very good, but some Democrats seem overconfident. Polls aren't predictors, and they can close rapidly in the final days of a campaign. In Iowa, the much ballyhooed Democratic absentee-ballot...
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McCain Calls on Kerry to apologize (via Drudge) Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education....
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Detecting child abuse
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Loneliness and stress
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People who like to paint global warming as an overblown threat often point to the huge costs of trying to fix it. What if we spend billions or trillions to stave off a threat that isn't there? And even if...
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JOCHEN LUEBKE / AFP / GETTYA six week old African elephant Most animals can't recognize themselves in a mirror; if they notice anything at all, they generally think it's another member of their species and might try to interact with...
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Two years ago, in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster, NASA officials decided to cancel a planned servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. The idea had been to replace the space telescope's aging gyroscopes and to upgrade some of...
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by Ana Marie Cox Perhaps you've heard about John Kerry telling young people to get an education lest they "get stuck in Iraq." Classic elitist liberal stereotyping. (Public relations officials will assure you that the new "Army Strong" slogan is...
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(AP)People may still be arguing about the science behind global warming, but it looks like we may finally be able to put the debate over zombies to rest. A new paper called "Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies: Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality" suggests that the movie monsters couldn"t possibly do some of the things that they do onscreen. Here's the writeup from Elisabeth Eaves: [University of Central Florida theoretical physics professor Costas Efthimiou] begins with the assumption that a vampire feeds only once a month. "Certainly a highly conservative assumption," the paper notes. Every time the vampire feeds, the vampire population increases by one and the human population decreases by one. Efthimiou supposed that the first vampire arrived on Jan. 1, 1600, when the human population was 536,870,911. That means there would have been two vampires and 536,870,910 humans on Feb. 1, four vampires and 536,870,908 humans on March 1, and so forth. With the vampire population increasing geometrically and the human population decreasing geometrically, by the 30th month the human race would have been wiped out. Zombies, of course, have the same problem, so stop worrying so much about the walking dead - the bad guys are apparently confined to George Romero and Dario Argento movies. And don't even get Efthimiou started on ghosts - they can't apply force, and thus there's no way they can walk like humans, as Patrick Swayze does in "Ghost." So next time you think you're being haunted, don't bother calling Ghostbusters - just look up Newton"s third law of physics, and let science do its thing.
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(AP)According to the Center for Media and Public Affairs, network news coverage is favoring the Democrats this year. Part of the reason, of course, is what the CMPA calls the "predominant storyline" over the course of the study, which began right after Labor Day and wrapped up on Oct. 22nd. I'll give you three guesses what said storyline might be. (Hint: Send me a "pic!") The other dominant storylines? Iraq and terrorism. The study found that Democrats got positive evaluations on the nightly news shows 77 percent of the time, while Republicans only got such treatment 12 percent of the time. This news will be greeted as further evidence of liberal media bias in the MSM - yup, there it is - but it is important to remember that when the news is bad for one party or another, the stories are going to reflect that. I'm not saying there aren't ideological biases at play in the media, only that it would be ridiculous to expect the nature of the news not to influence the tenor of the coverage. One could, I should add, plausibly argue that the focus on Mark Foley and the war is itself evidence of bias. (Though it's worth pointing out that there are plenty of people who think the media isn't talking about the war nearly enough. As for Foley, I think we've all pretty much had our fill.) CMPA director Robert Lichter told USA Today that the problem for Republicans is two guys who aren't even running. "What's hurting Republican candidates is the media's focus on two non-candidates: Mark Foley and George W. Bush," he said.
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If Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House, she would be next in line, after the Vice President, to become President. Her record belies her capacity to serve in such a role, the National Review says.
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The Nation's Max Blumenthal takes a look at Republican operative Scott Howell's history of controversial campaign ads, including that infamous (and now defunct) ad against Democratic candidate Harold Ford Jr.
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Maryland tilts strongly Democratic, but what many people don't realize is a sizable number of Democratic votes in Maryland come from only 3 of the 24 counties in the state. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend got 48% of the vote against Gov....
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If Republicans really are depressed heading into this election, there's nothing quite like a public yelling match over John Kerry's willingness to insult U.S. troops to offer a little pick me up. After McCain called on Kerry to apologize, Tony...
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Two points on the John Kerry slam on our troops. When the Harry Reid land sale scandal broke, I wrote that the 527 Media would bury the story, and they did. This time, neither the NYT nor the networks will...
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Republican Pete Ricketts is thought by many to be a rising GOP star. But this year ain't his year, as he's running well behind in the only polls that have been taken in this race. Nevertheless, here is a recent...
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Robert Stacey, an associate professor in the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, writes in today's Philadelphia Inquirer: But when serious threats to our sense of security or moral stability emerge, priorities shift. Woe to the candidate who trots...
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