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Sarah Palin resigning, the Obama effect?  permlink

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...

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Pirate Party wins in Sweden!  permlink

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....

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Categorizing ideas & humans  permlink

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...

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The myth of the rational electorate  permlink

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...

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Minorities don't oppose gay marriage inordinately, blacks do  permlink

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...

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Free speech not as important in Eastern Europe  permlink

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...

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Religious people support torture  permlink

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...

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The biological roots of moral sentiments?  permlink

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...

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Expertise & entertainment  permlink

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...

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Liberals more tolerant of cheating on taxes?  permlink

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...

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