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Category: Politics
Palin announces resignation: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was resigning her office later this month, a stunning decision that could free her to run for president more easily but also raises questions about her political standing at...
Posted by Razib at 3:50 PM • 19 Comments •
Category: Politics
It looks like the PirateParty will gain 1 seat in the EU parliament. This means Christian Engström will have a job and income. He's been spending the last 3 years as an activist living off his savings....
Posted by Razib at 9:09 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Culture
Andrew Gelman has a post up titled Difficulties in trying to understand the views of others, responding to a Robin Hanson taxonomy outline the motivations of liberals, conservatives and libertarians. Gelman is skeptical of Hanson's glosses of each group. The...
Posted by Razib at 9:04 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Culture
California, a Broke State, Reels as Voters Rebuff Leaders: Direct democracy has once again upended California -- enough so that the state may finally consider another way by overhauling its Constitution for the first time in 130 years. The problem...
Posted by Razib at 8:31 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Culture
I heard on the radio several times in the past few weeks commentators refer to minority opposition to gay marriage, specifically the fact that New York and California have large numbers of blacks and Latinos who are voters. I was...
Posted by Razib at 9:58 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Politics
With the whole controversy around Michael Savage being blocked from entering England because of his inflammatory comments I thought I would look at attitudes toward speech. One thing I've noticed is that Americans tend to be less instrumental when it...
Posted by Razib at 10:46 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Politics
John Schwenkler points me to Rod Dreher's shock that religious people seem to support torture more than the non-religious: And get this: the more often you go to church, the more pro-torture you're likely to be! What on earth are...
Posted by Razib at 7:49 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Psychology
David Brooks has a new column grandly titled The End of Philosophy. Heather Mac Donald at Secular Right chides him for his criticism of the New Atheists, while John Derbyshire offers guarded praise. It seems to me that the jab...
Posted by Razib at 11:42 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Politics
Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide, has a post up where he notes how bad political "experts" are. Nevertheless, I'm a little confused, isn't the whole point of political pundits & stock pickers to be entertaining, as opposed to...
Posted by Razib at 3:42 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Politics
See the data over at The Audacious Epigone. This sort of finding shouldn't be super "counter-intuitive," there are a lot of variables which affect the opinions of a set of people on a disparate set of questions, and one shouldn't...
Posted by Razib at 4:46 PM • 5 Comments •
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