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As the media circus over Jeremiah Wright continues, it should give us pause that the media hasn't decided to focus on John McCain and his embrace of a wide range of religious bigots. Although McCain once called these men "agents...
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Posted on May 4, 2008 6:43 PM • 7 Comments •
This morning, I had to wake up to another article about John McCain's and Hillary Clinton's proposal to temporarily waive the gas tax this summer. That's it. I'm just going to have to come out and say it: this is...
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Posted on May 3, 2008 8:07 AM • 4 Comments •
SEA is sponsoring a workshop that may interest you on May 10th in Washington, DC.
Posted on March 29, 2008 2:52 PM • 1 Comments •
David Weigel of
Reason magazine makes a compelling case.
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Posted on March 5, 2008 5:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Welcome to Crankville, Senator.
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Posted on March 3, 2008 3:24 PM • 8 Comments •
Both are similar and neither goes far enough, but Clinton edges out Obama slightly just for making health insurance mandatory
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Posted on February 25, 2008 5:20 PM • 10 Comments •
On Monday, Obama was endorsed by Congressman Chet Edwards, whose district includes Texas A&M University, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, and George W. Bush's Crawford ranch
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Posted on February 22, 2008 5:09 AM • 0 Comments •
Obama wins big in Maryland, Virginia, and DC, but now he has even bigger fish to fry.
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Posted on February 13, 2008 5:07 PM • 0 Comments •
Obama wins Louisiana (57-36), Washington (68-31), and Nebraska (68-32), while John McCain still struggles to seal the deal.
Posted on February 10, 2008 9:10 AM • 5 Comments •
He's gaining in the polls, and he could pull off some big wins today.
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Posted on February 5, 2008 12:20 PM • 2 Comments •
I'm quoted in a story today in my alma mater's student paper on candidates using social networking sites.
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Posted on February 5, 2008 11:27 AM • 1 Comments •
Antiretroviral drugs taken prophylactically protecting against HIV, some doubt about the effects of circumcision, and a blast from the past with John McCain
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Posted on February 5, 2008 7:20 AM • 16 Comments •
The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine sign on.
Posted on February 4, 2008 7:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Netroots, change, and fighting poverty: who will carry on Edwards' legacy?
Posted on January 30, 2008 6:15 PM • 4 Comments •
Americans living abroad can vote for their own delegation to the 2008 Democratic Convention.
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Posted on January 28, 2008 4:53 PM • 0 Comments •
Obama's 295,091 votes last night trump second place finisher Hillary Clinton's 141,128 and Republican victor John McCain's 147,283.
Posted on January 27, 2008 9:53 AM • 1 Comments •
SEA launches a useful new resource tracking elected officials' and candidates' positions and actions on science and science-related issues.
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Posted on January 16, 2008 6:40 PM • 3 Comments •
From evolution to stem cells, from declining NIH grant success rates to accelerating global warming, the next president is going to face a broad range of issues directly related to science.
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Posted on December 10, 2007 2:05 PM • 2 Comments •
How liable are we for the things we
don't write on our blogs?
Posted on September 22, 2007 1:27 PM • 2 Comments •
...for now, at least.
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Posted on August 12, 2007 12:28 PM • 1 Comments •
Over at A Blog Around the Clock, Bora has posted an interview he conducted by email with Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on science and science-related issues. The fact that John Edwards participated is a good indication that the 2008...
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Posted on July 9, 2007 6:48 PM • 0 Comments •
A new poll indicates that today's young adults are more progressive than their parents on health care, homosexuality, and general ideology.
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Posted on June 27, 2007 11:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Not that HIV/AIDS is an important issue or anything... but it appears that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain hasn't been thinking much--or at all--about HIV prevention. The New York Times blog The Caucus reports that when asked about the subject...
Posted on March 17, 2007 10:54 AM • 2 Comments •
Giuliani may land a surprise endorsement from the Club for Growth
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Posted on March 14, 2007 2:40 PM • 5 Comments •
Romney and Edwards have both shifted heavily to their respective sides, but Edwards gives us fewer reasons to be skeptical than Romney.
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Posted on March 11, 2007 3:36 PM • 4 Comments •
Four days after the Democrats' impressive Election Day victory, the commentary keeps streaming in, almost to the point of overkill. Today's Guardian, though, ran a particularly poignant piece from Martin Kettle: Every poll for months had signalled a serious Republican...
Posted on November 11, 2006 7:24 AM • 1 Comments •
Chris of Mixing Memory points us toward a good comparison of the Democratic victory in 2006 to the Republican victory in 1994. In short, the comparison--located at a Columbia statistics blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science--shows that the...
Posted on November 10, 2006 9:38 AM • 0 Comments •
As the sun sets on the conservative movement in America, 2006 marks a new beginning for the Democrats, and hopefully for American science.
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Posted on November 10, 2006 7:39 AM • 0 Comments •
It's official now. Republican candidate for the Virginia Senatorial seat, George Allen, has conceded the election, making Democrat Jim Webb the official winner. This means that the Democratic takeover of both the House and Senate is now complete and official....
Posted on November 9, 2006 4:14 PM • 0 Comments •
See updated Senate results here!
Posted on November 8, 2006 7:03 PM • 3 Comments •
As I wake up this morning, I see that things have changed slightly, and I probably should have been even more optimistic last night. The Democrats and Republicans both have control of 49 seats each, and Democrats need to win...
Posted on November 8, 2006 5:24 AM • 0 Comments •
Some quick election updates: The Democrats take the House, and they stand to pick up a few extra seats in the process. The senate is still uncertain. If the Democrats win three out of four key races, they could still...
Posted on November 8, 2006 12:13 AM • 2 Comments •
The Republicans have clearly been getting desperate, and one--Rick Green--was apparently desperate enough to punch Texas State Representative Patrick Rose in the face.
Posted on November 7, 2006 4:05 PM • 0 Comments •
There is so much to say about the importance of today's election, but not a great deal that hasn't already been spelled out time and time again. Most importantly, if you haven't already voted, go vote today! Hopefully you'll have...
Posted on November 7, 2006 6:39 AM • 2 Comments •
This won't be news to anyone from Texas, but our governor, Republican Rick Perry, is a walking disaster. From The Dallas Morning News: SAN ANTONIO - Gov. Rick Perry, after a God and country sermon attended by dozens of political...
Posted on November 6, 2006 6:40 PM • 4 Comments •
If George Bush is driving our nation down a one-way road to hell, it's the Republican-controlled House and Senate that are enabling him to do this. On October 17th, Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which...
Posted on November 6, 2006 6:12 PM • 0 Comments •
An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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