Category: Politics

  • Dick Durbin: Towering Genius, or Grossly Irresponsible?

    Dick Durbin can, apparently claim with a straight face that 46 hours, 8 minutes (commencing at 12:15 AM a week before Christmas) is enough time to read a 3,417 page omnibus spending bill and vote on it. Either Durbin has the reading abilities of a small army of legal thinkers, or he’s irresponsible in the…

  • Goodbye, Co-op!

    Finally, the Hyde Park Co-op is closing its doors. It’s about time. From all I can tell, it has been a failing business almost from its inception; there’s no question that it was overly expensive and pathetically managed and operated during the last two and a half years. More details here.

  • Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others

    New Gallup poll: Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others. An intro: Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of…

  • Another Interesting Global Warming Report

    An interesting (and short) paper was just released explaining how the IPCC 2007 report is based on flawed (i.e., outdated) data. It’s by a mathematician and engineer, but he’s dealing mostly with mathematical data, for those of you who are skeptical based on his background. Check it out here: Carbon Emissions Don’t Cause Global Warming…

  • Ann Coulter, Plagiarist?

    Professor Randy Picker just posted some interesting commentary on the AP’s suggestion that Ann Coulter committed plagiarism in her new book, Godless. It comes a little too close to the topic of our brief, last quarter, but it’s interesting, nonetheless.