Why isn’t Barack Obama way ahead in the polls?

Why isn't Senator Barack Obama way ahead of John McCain in the polls?  Why is this race so tight?  Bob Cesca has an idea: Hmm. I can't imagine why that is. It's not like Senator Obama's patriotism and character is being assassinated for three hours every morning on cable news…

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Ignorance Rampant

The following is a quote lifted from Charlie Stross's blog and is pretty much In Full. We. Are. Not. Going. To. Die. On. Wednesday. The maximum energy the particles generated by the LHC (7TeV) get up to is many orders of magnitude below the maximum energy of cosmic rays that…

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“Thanks, but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere” Palin keeps saying.

Chris Matthews is now driving the point home:  Sarah Palin is a pathological liar.   She fully supported the bridge to nowhere, but here she is, seven times, claiming she didn't support it. BTW, Sarah Palin claims to be quite religious. See her performance at her church here.  She believes in…

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What’s the deal with Sarah Palin?

There is a feeding frenzy regarding Sarah Palin out there.  It's intense and disorienting.  It's also disquieting. Palin seems like a pleasant woman who would make a nice neighbor.   But since when are people qualified to be Vice-President just because they are "nice"? Tonight I started seeing many comments that…

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