When it comes to the US Presidential primaries, it’s difficult to separate perception from reality. A month or two ago, people were talking about Obama (and Edwards, for that matter) in Iowa as a disconnect between Iowa and the national polls. The idea of Hillary Clinton’s inevitability was well entrenched, at least in the press. [...]
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John Holbo at Crooked Timber has an interesting discussion about who will be the next Vice President.
One commenter makes a point that renders the Hillary possibility moot. “Of course, the big problem will be to convince Dick Cheney to resign from the post.” The interesting thing is that Cheney might be quite right not to [...]
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Like many creationists, William Dembski is a multi-degree man. In addition to his M.Div., Dembski has a PhD is philosophy and another in mathematics. His supporters like to call him things like “a leading scientist” or “the Isaac Newton of information theory”, but Dembski is neither a scientist, nor does he have anything but the [...]
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