Politics
Deep Climate on Richard Muller
Posted by coby on September 19, 2012 Deep Climate has a great run down of Richard Muller’s recent public appearances and some details on his ties to the Koch brothers, it is well worth a careful read. And while we’re talking about Richard Muller, check out NPR’s shameful decision to “balance” Muller’s converted-to-mainstream scientific views with the provision of a soap box…
Obama on Letterman Discusses Romney’s Comments
Posted by Greg Laden on September 19, 2012 Imagine the size of the tip when the dinner cost 50 large
Posted by Greg Laden on September 19, 2012 I just want to remind everybody that the fundraiser at which Romney proudly declared he would not represent 47% of Americans, claimed that if he was brown he’d get elected, and promised that if there was a hostage situation in the middle east during the present election season that he’d find a way to take…
Netanyahu Is Crazy, But So Are Many Of His Critics
Posted by jrosenhouse on September 17, 2012 These are hard times to be a supporter of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu is a lunatic who is now actively trying to mess with the American election. You see, President Obama, early in his term, politely suggested that if Israel seriously wants to make peace with its neighbors they might want to consider not expanding settlements…
Does Secular Humanism Have A Political Agenda?
Posted by Greg Laden on September 17, 2012 In March, 2012, I attended a conference called Moving Secularism Forward run by the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry. I spoke as part of a panel called Does Secular Humanism Have A Political Agenda? along with Ronald Bailey of Reason.com, Razib Khan of Secular Right, and former Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder. This…
The mic was on, he didn’t know: What Mitt Romney Really Thinks
Posted by Greg Laden on September 17, 2012 The tape was running, he was speaking at a fundraiser, didn’t know he was being taped. Holy crap: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
This is why you need to care about Minnesota 33B
Posted by Greg Laden on September 17, 2012 This is Denise Bader, who is running against a very extreme Tea Party candidate:
A Political Sea Change
Posted by Greg Laden on September 17, 2012 Yeah, I’m bringing back the term “Sea Change” which was briefly popular a few years ago, in reference to the perception of party difference, the difference between Democrats and Republicans, in handling foreign policy. Let me say first that it has never been true that the Republicans were better at handling foreign policy than the…
Dynamic Map of Chinese Unrest
Posted by Martin R on September 16, 2012 
The Chinese Twitter equivalent Weibo censors searches for the names of places where there are protests (currently Shenzhen). You could write a script that searches for the main Chinese cities on Weibo and plots the ones that are censored on a map. Presto, a dynamic map of Chinese political unrest! With data supplied by the…
sequestration summary
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on September 14, 2012 The OMB has reported on the effects of sequestration that will be triggered Jan 2013 unless Congress proactively changes the law before then. Some time ago, Congress set itself a trap: in an attempt to look like they were dealing with government spending and the deficit, they passed a law that triggers automatic cuts to…
