The three participants in the third U.S. presidential debate last week
pretended Iraq didn't exist, but if you go to a rally of supporters for
either candidate it's the top issue talked about. Baghdad, a city in
ruins, divided into...
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13 October 2008
David W. Moore, who worked for Gallup for 13 years as managing editor and senior editor of the Gallup Poll, has a new book out denouncing most polls by Gallup or anyone else as useless, and explaining that this became obvious to him when...
12 October 2008
According to an Associated Press story on Friday, more than a half-million people have toured the creationism museum in Kentucky since it opened in May 2007. However, at least one of those people was there to make fun of it with a video...
08 October 2008
It's the second week of October. When I was a kid it would sometimes snow and always be cold by now. I'm typing this on my laptop sitting outdoors in the warm sun with no sweater or jacket on the downtown mall, a pedestrian street in...
08 October 2008
On October 5, 2008, Vicenza overwhelmingly said no to a second U.S.
military base. In a referendum that had officially been suspended just four
days before it was to take place, 24,094 voters, determined to express
themselves, showed up to...
07 October 2008
What a week we have all had. I guess for those of us who make it to the
weekend without a single scratch, it will be important to sit quietly in a
corner making plans for the future. Obviously the time for tunnel vision and
full faith in ‘...
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