Stephen E. Moore questions the methodology: (hat tip: Volokh Conspiracy)
However, the key to the validity of cluster sampling is to use enough cluster points. In their 2006 report, “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional sample survey,” the Johns Hopkins team says it used 47 cluster points for their sample of 1,849 interviews. […]
CNN.com
Kids who are turned off by math often say they don’t enjoy it, they aren’t good at it and they see little point in it. Who knew that could be a formula for success?The nations with the best scores have the least happy, least confident math students, says a study by the Brookings Institution’s Brown […]
Dean’s World - Tolerance
You Islamophobes have yet to answer me a simple question: how can you possibly support what America is doing in Afghanistan and Iraq if you believe that Islam and Muslims are inherently incapable of modernity and tolerance and democracy?
Leaving aside the ‘when did you stop beating you wife’ aspect of this question, […]
The Australian
THE Chinese are openly debating “regime change” in Pyongyang after last week’s nuclear test by their confrontational neighbour.
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“In today’s DPRK Government, there are two factions, sinophile and royalist,” one Chinese analyst wrote online. “The objective of the sinophiles is reform, Chinese-style, and then to bring down Kim Jong-il’s royal family. That’s why Kim is […]
spiked
It is not only environmentalist activists and green-leaning writers who are seeking to silence climate change deniers/sceptics/critics/whatever you prefer. Last month the Royal Society – Britain’s premier scientific academy founded in 1660, whose members have included some of the greatest scientists – wrote a letter to ExxonMobil demanding that the oil giant cut off its […]
I got an interesting email from Word of Blog.net.
Here is the what it said:
Dear David Justus,
As you know, the midterm elections are coming up fast, and they’re shaping up to be the most important in years. Both houses of Congress lie in the balance, as does control of many of the Governors’ mansions.
As a public […]
CNN.com
A man who couldn’t find steady work came up with a plan to make it through the next few years until he could collect Social Security: He robbed a bank, then handed the money to a guard and waited for police.On Wednesday, Timothy J. Bowers told a judge a three-year prison sentence would suit him, […]
Miscellaneous Objections reprints a letter from Dick Armey that is worth reading.
(via Instapundit)
International Herald Tribune
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, for pioneering work in pulling millions of women out of poverty through small loans.The prize lends heft to an idea already gaining ground in antipoverty circles: that capitalist methods can be more effective in curbing […]
Victor Davis Hanson talks about Korea
His analysis is pretty close to mine.
