Archive for October 30th, 2006

Oct 30 2006

Unverified Polling Practices

At RCP’s latest poll page there are all these RT Strategies/CD polls which tend to all tilt leftward of the other polls. Look at any close race and you will see RT Strategies/CD as the most left leaning polls in the lot – here for example, where this would not even be close if not […]

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Oct 30 2006

Steele Will Win In MD

It is now a foregone conclusion Micheal Steele should win the Senate race in MD now that many black democratic leaders from heavily black and democratic Prince George’s County have come out to openly support Steele: A coalition of black Democratic political leaders from Prince George’s County led by former county executive Wayne K. Curry […]

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Oct 30 2006

Umbical Cord Stem Cells Grow Micro Liver

In another blow to the Embryonic Stem Cell (ESCR) Voodoo medicine, researchers have been able to take umbilical cord stem cells (technically part of the fetus, not the mother – check the DNA) and grow a small liver from the stem cells found in the cord: British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver […]

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Oct 30 2006

More On ESCR

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Here is someone who is on target with much of the embryonic stem cell debate. No need to add anything.

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Oct 30 2006

Global Warming Alarm Bells

I will have more on this later, but in this panic call for higher taxes to fend off Global Warming (not sure how that is supposed to work, raise taxes and hurricanes will dissipate???) all one needs to see in the reporting is the hidden caveat: He was speaking after it was revealed that Environment […]

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Oct 30 2006

Major Attack On Al Qaeda (Zawahiri) In Pakistan

Update: Time is all worried that by attacking the terrorists, we and other nations fighting to win this war might irritate the enemy and there could be a backlash: A Pakistani military air strike on a pro-Taliban religious school in the country’s volatile North West Frontier Province has set off a flurry of protest in […]

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Oct 30 2006

Islamic Sheik Denounces Al Qaeda In Iraq

Think we are losing the war of hearts and minds in the ME with what is going on in Iraq? Think again. “Then [after a while,] the [Al-Qaeda in Iraq] organization suddenly and inexplicably began to act in a strange manner. They began to liquidate religious scholars… I do not want to mention names, for […]

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Oct 30 2006

Tora Bora Vacation?

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I am just not sure what to make of the news there are plans to turn Bin Laden’s Tora Bora hideout into a tourist spot. While part of me recoils at the idea of dismissing Bin Laden, another part of me notes that the image of Bin Laden as a tourist symbol is quite demeaning […]

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Oct 30 2006

The Uneducated Masses

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One has to wonder what kind of dribble is being passed off as news analysis when Swedes find the US is more of a threat than North Korea and Iran. The younger the age the less memory there is for the days when the US came to cleanse Europe of the violent fascism of the […]

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Oct 30 2006

Poll Bias In Turnout Modelling

I am surprised Michael Barone was not more forceful in his article today where he notes the polls we see are all way off from the make up of the country. Pew Research has been measuring the political affiliations of the country and it has seen about a 33-33-33 split (D-R-I) for the Bush years. […]

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