Posts Tagged: wingnut


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Sep 09

Daily Links for August 31st

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).


28
Jul 09

Afterbirthers

This has been a bad week for the birthers.

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Their weak arguments are debunked and discredited.   Congress birthers flee from video.   Even all the birthers in the House had to vote on a resolution to recognize Hawaii as the birthplace of the President.

By the way, this is no fringe movement, as BlueTexan at FDL points out:

[They include] at least 17 elected Republicans in Congress, numerous Republican state legislators, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Liz Cheney, Michael Savage, Alan Keyes, G. Gordon Liddy, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax and Free Republic.


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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 8th

  • How Obama Is Using the Science of Change – TIME – The existence of this behavioral dream team — which also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton — has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals — among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama — came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. "It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what to do and the science behind it," Moffo tells TIME. "These guys really know what makes people tick."

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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 25th through February 26th

  • Pew Research Center: Social Segregation – A 2007 Pew Research survey found that while a large majority of Americans say they have friends of a different race, pluralities of whites (45%), blacks (35%) and Hispanics (39%) say they have "just a few" friends of a different race. About a third of whites and blacks say they have "some" friends of a different race, and very few say that either "all" or "most" are of a different race.
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