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Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated :lol: Cue disbelief. :p This is what I believe is called a statement against interest. So what's going on here? Is it a case of the stereotype of the left consisting of the permanent underclass and a small number of academicians...

In a general situation of induced miscarriage against a pregnant woman's will, should the crime be considered a type of property damage on the grounds that the fetus is not a person? (This is only about the miscarriage. Assume that any harm to the woman is a separate issue. Probably assault or...

Have I slipped into an alternate dimension, did someone mistake the date for April 1st, or was The Onion switching articles with the NYT for a day? "The tests do not appear racially biased... But a closer look shows that the exams also required applicants to read and understand long...

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/01/08/2010-01-08_terrible_on_terror.html Lots of links in original article. I like the turn phrase "damning, wholesale admission of gross and inexcusable incompetence". I also like the transparency of the Obama administration.

For those who must have some sort of background: If you're a right-wing nut-job, imagine that America rounded up all the black people, and if you're a pinko commie, imagine that America rounded up all the rednecks, and then deported them to a previously uninhabited lump of land and declared it a...

Hypothetical alternative course of history: Nazis win WWII for any of a number of reasons: Hitler doesn't go insane, Japan doesn't bomb Pearl Harbor and America doesn't join in, etc. As a result, the Nazi genocide of Jews remains a footnote somewhere in the Times to the extent that it's even...

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/men-the-gender-wars-are-over-—-we-won/ EDIT: emdash may be messing up link. Try this or this? I am releasing this article under the Whig History clause of the Men's Charter - no point in keeping it confidential any more, nobody is going to take it...

http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/education/61039b62-db7d-11de-9871-001cc4c03286.html "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." :nope: I do not think that...

http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2009/11/breaking-nzs-niwa-accused-of-cru-style-temperature-faking.html Highlighting mine, to which I say like the blogger: THE DATA, PLEASE. SHOW YOUR WORK. It is up to you to justify yourself, not (just) to "people that come out with...

Inspired by a few people complaining about the tyranny of the majority recently. -Mordecai Lee, Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency. Let's grab the "perpetual motion machine" idea and run with it as Mencius Moldbug did in Patchwork 2, where we are reminded that such things are...

Brief history lesson, since the original case was a while back: Susette Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, Connecticut, et al., often abbreviated to 'Kelo v. New London' or just 'Kelo', was a case regarding the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause: and the related power of eminent domain, which...

After a UK court said climate change counted as a religion. :p And I suppose that would make this earlier thingy a court of eco-sharia religious terrorism or something. :p Let the partisan hackery continue! Me, I'm going to sleep on it and then reread the article a few times, but I trust...

http://openofficemouse.com/ :eek: :lol: :crazyeye: :D I want one, just so I can wave it at Macintosh fanboys like a crucifix or garlic at a vampire. Looks incredibly cool. :cooool: If I get one, it'll probably be worn out within a year. I'll draw letters and runes on the little buttons to...

Previous thread by VR: Attention heretics, all is forgiven! Your 500 years in the wilderness is over! VR's article mentioned "female and gay bishops". I'd like to add a few more silly things that I've seen from that general lot: Clown Eucharist. Replacing Stations of the Cross with...

UPDATE: Devastating counterpoint in this post. --- http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm From 2004, via the Web Archive: :twitch: What the... :dubious: Note that this was long before the birthers, the 2008 presidential election, the...

An extract of opinions: Opening question based on last quote: If, hypothetically, nature sets a maximum (e.g. 120 IQ points) and nurture gives a percentage of this or a shortfall amount, to what extent would you call the result "hereditary"? More generally, in what proportion should...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-swanson/bushs-third-term-youre-li_b_274438.html (lots more sources given, see links) I figured this might as well have its own thread, news article and all. Discuss.

http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20090829/large/90829030/ http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20090908/politik/90908008/ Translation: :lol: I approve. Props to the guy for not being a racist (yes I know it is not technically correct but 'religionist' already means something else) and...

http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/GreeksWrong.HTM I found this fascinating. Note: Indentations are used to mark original quotations, the rest is commentary. It was this bad? The coverage I got of Aristotle in history and philosophy class tended to describe him as an early genius who...

Courtesy of Inductivist, who seems to have gotten his data here: (persistent link) Inductivist has several such images. Others are less extreme but still show blacks being more willing than whites to e.g. rape or steal. (The "other" category varies a lot.) I grant that Inductivist may...