Poll Position: The Deceptive Misinterpretation of Opinion Polls
The opponents of health care reform have been making their case by quoting the number 73, as in the percentage of Americans who are "opposed to the health care reform bill and want it scrapped altogether". So there you have it folks. To paraphrase the conservative talk shows and Fox News, the American people have spoken; an overwhelming majority wants to see this bill killed. Time to move on to other pressing issues. But wait. Not so fast! Shouldn't we be a wee bit curious about this number "73%"? How could these robust debates over ...
82nd Annual Academy Awards
Award Show: THE 82nd ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS Airs On: ABC Air Date & Time: March 7, 2010 8:00PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific 2010 NOMINEES (*Winners) Performance by an actor in a supporting role Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics) Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount) Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)* Best animated feature film of the year "Coraline" (Focus Features) Henry Selick "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) John Musker ...
Global Warming: The Miseducation of South Dakotans
The greatness of a nation is measured by the education of its youth. Two primary subject matter by which they are sized up against the rest of the world are math and science. In the past eight years, science has often taken a back seat to the predisposition of the fossil fuel lobbyists, one of the loyal base of the previous Bush administration, in order to minimize the effects of human behavior on climate change. It had gotten so onerous that President Obama saw fit to reinstate science back into its prominent place of greatness and prestige ...
Bill Maher to Evan Bayh: Good Riddance!
Every now and then, just when I'm looking for the right words to express my discontent and frustration with the political establishment, Bill Maher comes along and steals the words right from my mouth! Bill Maher spoke to CNN's Larry King on various topics including the resignation of Evan Bayh, the Tea Party movement, health care reform, and President Obama's first year in office. Evan Bayh? Good Riddance? My sentiments exactly! "Democratic" Senator Evan Bayh sucker punched his party with a deliberate last minute resignation, denying more progressive Democratic candidates the opportunity to run to replace him in a ...
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