My son sent me a link the other day to a isidewith.com to see who I would vote for. You are allowed to weight the questions according that issue’s importance to you, which ostensibly will lead to a more accurate assessment of who you support based on their positions. I came down solidly on the […]
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How you frame the question means a lot
31 Aug 2016
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The Majority Wins: But What?
06 Aug 2016
Well, the rage now is politics, electoral politics. My colleague Mark Smith has been busy the past few days addressing Wayne Grudem’s qualified support of Donald Trump for president. I am not going there for now. I wanted to say something about the bigger picture of how and why we got to where we are […]
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New Hampshire and the Debate Hypothesis
09 Feb 2016
By any reasonable measure, Marco Rubio struggled, mightily, during parts of the G.O.P. debate on Saturday night. Chris Christie savaged the Florida Senator for his inexperience and his reliance on canned talking points. Rubio responded, to a degree, with canned talking points, thereby demonstrating Christie’s basic critique that Rubio is an empty suit, similar to […]
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It’s easy in an image-filled world of instant news for conservative Christians to see Christmas as under attack. And indeed it is…anything that points to a sovereign, saving God is something that humanist religion seeks to destroy. But….this is nothing new in Christian history, nor is it indicative that God is losing control, as He […]
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That is the question raised in an op-ed over at the NYT (hat tip to The Gospel Coalition), covering the recent video sting of planned parenthood operatives calmly (while eating lunch!) discussing how they make sure to crush the unborn child in a manner that allows them to still harvest the vital organs to sell. […]
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As Robby Soave of Reason.com pointed out in a March 22 article, students today come to college with a basic problem. They are scared on ideas that challenge them. Soave gave an illustration of this from a debate between a left-feminist, Jessica Valenti, and a libertarian feminist, Wendy McElroy at Brown Univesity. Apparently some students […]
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What are Republicans Saying? Nothing Much Yet.
11 Nov 2014
Something was missing from the recent Republican campaign efforts. Though they did retake the Senate and several governor’s mansions, most were strangely silent on what might have been some winning issues. These included Obamacare, school reform and reforming bureaucracy and regulation. Obamacare did receive some attention, which is good, and all the new senators vowed […]
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), scion of the New York political family, has declared that conservative extremists have no place in his state. What is it that makes them extreme? Apparently, it is opposition to abortion, gay marriage, and gun control. Today, January 22, 2014, is the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court […]
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Quinnipiac University’s most recent polling results suggest Republicans will struggle to convince the American people the government shutdown is a good idea. Key findings include: Americans oppose, 72-22%, the government shutdown in order to de-fund or delay Obamacare Republican voters support the shutdown narrowly (49-44%), while Democrats (90-6%) and Independents (74-19%) oppose it overwhelmingly In a […]
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The Gay Marriage Debate is Not Over
20 Aug 2013
Michael Emerson and Laura Essenberg (both at Rice University) recently publicized a white paper on American attitudes toward marriage. The paper is based on a two-wave panel study that examined respondents in both 2006 and in 2012. These sorts of panel data are a gold-standard approach to examining change over time. Most surveys are simple […]
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