Some questions for the GOP candidates

These were concocted by John Cole of Balloon Juice (via Andrew Sullivan): 1.) “Would you have sex with a man to stop a terrorist attack?” 2.) “If lowering taxes results in increased revenues then would lowering taxes to zero result in infinite revenues?” 3.) “If you had a time machine,…

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I’ll vote for the candidate who looks like . . . me!

The current edition of Science (September 7, 2007- articles available only to subscribers online) contains a short article entitled "The Art of Virtual Persuasion."  The author notes a wide variety of studies that have shown that "people who mimic the gestures or speech of others are often perceived by those…

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