Forum: General comments on Bloggingheads.tv
12-26-2008, 11:21 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
12-23-2008, 02:52 PM
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Re: Special 100% Original Edition
I wasn't aware that being a death sentence and being a result of choice are mutually exclusive. I would think that the two go together quite easily.
My point is not about the degree of...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
12-23-2008, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 76
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Plagiarism
I served on Auburn's Academic Honesty Committee for a year.
1) Thank god for turnitin.com (I highly recommend it, guys)
2) Professors have a nasty habit of thinking "We covered how to properly...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
12-21-2008, 03:30 PM
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Replies: 46
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Re: The Week in Blog: Falwell Manque
It amazes me how Wikipedia doesn't seem to grasp that it isn't on paper, so it isn't bound by the same limitations as a normal encyclopedia. I mean, you would assume that the people running a...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
12-21-2008, 01:09 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 21,357
Re: The Week in Blog: Falwell Manque
1) Isn't picking Warren for the invocation the sort of thing that Obama telegraphed he would do? I mean, that was one thing I got from his campaign, that he would reach out to his opponents and...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
11-05-2008, 03:27 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 25,198
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Forum: Diavlog comments
11-01-2008, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 64
Views: 39,009
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-28-2008, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 153
Views: 54,738
Re: Playing With Fire
I'm not sure what she's done to get the label of smart. She has certain political skills (a genuine folksiness, good at rallying a crowd). A lot of people consider her attractive (she does nothing...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-27-2008, 11:30 PM
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Replies: 153
Views: 54,738
Re: Playing With Fire
McCain felt (rightly, I think), that to win he needed his VP pick to be (1) a woman and (2) a conservative. A woman would help him grab some moderate female voters (and dampen the historic quality...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-24-2008, 05:13 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 8,437
Taxes and Spending
I guess it is nice that conservatives care about government spending again. There are two problems with the "If too few people pay income taxes, then too few people will care about limiting...
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Forum: Life, the Universe and Everything
10-24-2008, 05:02 PM
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Replies: 6
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Re: The CLB Election Projection
I gather McCain is scaling back in Pennsylvania, which I think is an implicit admission of defeat. Obama has 286 basically in the bag. That means McCain could win every toss-up state and come up...
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Forum: Life, the Universe and Everything
10-24-2008, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,109
Re: The CLB Election Projection
It is certainly similar. I leave out a lot of his complexity where I don't think it helps. Frankly, I don't know enough about his algorithm to know how close it is, but it certainly is similar. ...
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Forum: Life, the Universe and Everything
10-22-2008, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,109
The CLB Election Projection
My own creation...
Predicted State Margin = Predicted National Margin + National Random Factor + Predicted State Margin + State Random Factor
Predicted National Margin = 5% (based on current...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-17-2008, 06:08 PM
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Replies: 76
Views: 38,563
Re: WSJ vs. feministe
Cutting defense would be beyond prudent.
The United States has no peer rivals. Of course, we very well may in 20 years. The key to improving the United States' position then isn't a bigger...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-17-2008, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 76
Views: 38,563
Re: The Week in Blog: The Elusive Plumbers' Vote
Full disclosure: I'm a neolib. I think the Reagan tax cuts were the right thing to do (speaking generally), as were the HW and Clinton increases, while the W cuts were wrong. I think the first Iraq...
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