Posted in India, miscellaneous, politics, tagged aamir khan, blog, cognitive dissonance, dog, funny, humor, israel, lie, obama, quote, shah rukh khan, shahrukh, twisting, words on May 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Aamir Khan writes in his blog that the caretaker of his Panchgani house has a dog named Shahrukh. He emphasises that he had nothing to do with the naming of the dog.
I’m sitting under a tree, on the edge of a valley, approximately 5000 feet above sea level. The river Krishna flows far below us snaking its [...]
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Posted in politics, tagged clinton, democratic nomination, democratic primaries, election 2008, elections, indiana, north carolina, obama, politics, polls, pollsters, prediction on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
With all pollsters out with their own versions of what is going to happen in Indiana and North Carolina today, here’s my prediction:
Obama will win North Carolina by 12, Clinton will win Indiana by 7.
We will know the actual results in about ten hours.
Update: With about 99% of the votes counted, Obama is winning in North Carolina by [...]
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This sounds like a parody of the ’silly season’, but is real. Abe Greenwald is actually disturbed by Obama’s preference of orange juice over coffee.
The switch from juice to coffee is a rite of adulthood. It’s not that Obama seemed to hold himself above the coffee drinkers. It’s that he seemed to lag behind them. He’s still on fruit juice while [...]
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Is shown most starkly by the graph below.
(Source: NYCLU)
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Posted in libertarianism, politics, tagged decriminalization, drug, drug laws, free state project, laws, liberty, live free or die, marijuana, new hampshire, pot on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The Senate judiciary commitee of New Hampshire has voted against a bill that would decriminalize possession of up to one-quarter of an ounce of the drug. That represents the end of the marijuana decriminalization efforts in that state, for now. It also demonstrates that public opinion (about 60% of NH residents support decriminalization) is not [...]
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Posted in news and links, politics, tagged atheism, atheist, belief, discrimination, freedom, harassment, iraq, jeremy hall, military, religious freedom, soldier on April 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
From a CNN news story:
Like hundreds of young men joining the Army in recent years, Jeremy Hall professes a desire to serve his country while it fights terrorism.
But the short and soft-spoken specialist is at the center of a legal controversy. He has filed a lawsuit alleging he’s been harassed and his constitutional rights have been [...]
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It’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense. I dont have anything additional to say. It’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, I don’t have anything more to say….it’s nonsense. I reject it categorically.
John McCain’s take on his endorser Rev. John Hagee’s remarks that Hurricane Katrina was punishment for the gays and sins’of New Orleans.
Well, I [...]
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Posted in politics, tagged barack obama, consumer, economics, energy, environment, fiscal, fuel, gas, gas prices, obama, petroleum, policy, prices, subsidy, tax, tax-breaks on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the rare economic issues in which I support Obama’s stance. A gas tax-holiday, at this stage, is little more than a populist gimmick. It is bad fiscal policy, bad energy policy, bad environmental policy and – as previous experience shows — will do little to provide consumer relief.
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Posted in politics, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged cap and trade, carbon tax, economics, environment, global warming, permit, postrel, science, virginia postrel on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Virginia Postrel writes in the dynamist blog:
It’s infuriating how all three presidential candidates prattle on about the need to fight global warming while also complaining about the high price of gasoline. The candidates treat CO2 emissions as a social issue like gay marriage, with no economic ramifications. In the real world, barring a massive buildup of [...]
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Posted in politics, tagged analysis, clinton, democratic nomination, democratic primaries, demographics, election 2008, exit polls, obama, pennsylvania, politics, polls, race, statistics on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
The exit polls have been pretty off the mark this election season but in a consistent manner. As Brendan Loy notes in this post, the polls have been typically off by 7-8 points in Obama’s direction. This pattern was repeated yesterday — Clinton won Pennsylvania by 9 points when the CNN exit polls earlier in the day predicted she should [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, politics, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged animal rights, animal rights terrorism, california, crime facilitating speech, freedom of speech, law, legislation, researchers, vandalism, volokh on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Eugene Volokh has an interesting discussion about a new California law, currently under discussion, that aims to protect researchers against animal rights terrorism.
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Posted in India, news and links, politics, tagged amitabh bacchan, controversy, fanatics, freedom of speech, India, Indian politics, marathi, offended feelings, politics, regionalism on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Amit Varma nails the sad truth in his choice of post header.
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Posted in politics, tagged barack obama, charisma, election 2008, glamour, ideology, issues, obama, politics, viriginia postrel on April 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A subtle, highly readable article by Virginia Postrel on Barack Obama. Obama she says, has brought glamour — that special combination of mystery and grace — back into American politics. Indeed, Obama’s exceptional combination of charisma, intelligence and vagueness makes people want to project their own ideology onto him.
Plenty of candidates attract supporters who disagree with them [...]
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Posted in politics, tagged barack obama, democratic nomination, election 2008, labor, obama, pennsylvania, populism, rhetoric, union on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Obama steps up the populist rhetoric.
“We’re ready to play offense for organized labor,” Obama said. “It’s time we had a President who didn’t choke saying the word ‘union.’ A President who knows it’s the Department of Labor and not the Department of Management.”
I sincerely hope this is just rhetoric.
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This is good news.
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