C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll
Press Release
ANN ARBOR, Mich,—When your daughter goes online, how likely is it she’s being stalked by a stranger or bullied by a classmate? When your son surfs the Web, what are the chances he’s viewing pornography or gambling? [...]
That's how Richard Somerville and Mike Mann (Mann being the inventor of the "hockey stick" graph) describe recent revelations emanating from the November 20 distribution of a large number of emails and documents which appear to validate concerns regarding collusion, orchestrated data manipulation, and other junk science techniques employed by [...]
If they were chopping them up and they were chopping them down, from where were they? [...] By Ron Beasley
DaveNoon at Lawyers, Guns and Money is reading Going Rogue so we don't have too. Now I'm not really interested in even reading about the book but I found this amusing.
I realize this is a pedantic complaint, but would it be possible for Sarah Palin to launch [...]
This fall China has been on the brain of Portland's art and design community. Taking a cue from the Portland Art Museum's "China Design Now" exhibit, which surveys the latest in design, fashion and graphic design from China, the next installment in our Designs [...]
This fall China has been on the brain of Portland's art and design community. Taking a cue from the Portland Art Museum's "China Design Now" exhibit, which surveys the latest in design, fashion and graphic design from China, the next installment in our Designs [...]
By Dave Anderson:
Chris Briem has an accurate and scary paragraph at Null Space for anyone interested in municipal finance in the State of Pennsylvania:
And connected to everything are the finances at the casino. Revenues down there have clearly settled into a range. No joke how everything comes back [...]
It was a win-win night at the Crag Law Center "Wild Shots" benefit auction in Portland. With the purchase of only one -- count 'em, one -- raffle ticket (albeit for $25), I scored a beautiful Mark Gamba photograph.
And Crag ended up raising quite a bit of [...]
According to NewsMax:
Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others at Fort Hood, worshipped at the same mosque as two of the 9/11 terrorists.
According to the London Sunday Telegraph, Hasan attended services at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Va., in [...]
Here's the Washington Post's lead paragraph on yesterday's election results:
Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey [...]
So says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the UK Telegraph.
“The debt situation is irrecoverable,” said Carl Weinberg from High Frequency Economics. “I don’t see any orderly way out of this. They will not be able to fund their deficit. There will be a fiscal shutdown, a pension haircut, and bank failures [...]
A friend of mine emailed this article to me about so-called "progressive" cities. The ones labeled most progressive had one consistent feature: race. From New Geography:
Among the media, academia and within planning circles, there’s a generally standing answer to the question of what cities are the best, the most [...]This year, the annual White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week runs Sunday, Oct. 25, through Sunday, Nov. 1. WRAP Week is intended to inform the public and public officials about the harms of pornography and the need to enforce obscenity and related laws. Resources for individuals and groups are available [...]
Faith-Family Film Review: Amelia PG
Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
Hilary Swank portrays aviatrix Amelia Earhart in a handsome, mellifluous biography suitable for viewing by multiple generations yet which nevertheless fails to soar as an adventure or romance. No one could expect director Mira Nair, [...]
