These guys are my new heroes. They objectively evaluate the situation in Sudan/Darfur simply by going there with a camera and asking people questions. It turns out that what most Americans believe is going on there may be a bit skewed… All the rest are inside…
After seeing this, I couldn’t help myself: The ideal candidate according to America
So, there I was, wondering what the Founding Fathers of these united States were thinking when they scrawled the 2nd amendment into the paper, wording it so ambiguously (at least in today’s grammar). Maybe they wrote it down in another form somewhere else… Maybe at the Virginia Convention of June 27, 1788! Keep in mind that these were simply proposed amendments, so one could feasibly argue that they later decided that people shouldn’t have guns, but they should word it [...]
I find these figures interesting. It seems that many of the happiest countries in the first world are near the top (US, UK, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Germany), which means they have more crime than many more disadvantaged countries. It also seems that many of the countries with the least crime have very strong religious influences in their government, while the top is mostly “free and prosperous”. But what is extremely interesting is how I’ve been hearing that [...]
I was reading the Republican Party platform of 1860 today, which is about 1.5 pages, very broadly worded, and actually has good general platform aims. It was an interesting contrast to the 2004 platform, which is very specific and verbose and specific about every possible issue, 92 pages, and full of praise for George W. Bush. The old platform is much less superficial – it actually lays down the underlying principles that the party aims to achieve, some of which [...]
Within ten minutes of posting that Ron Paul had 18% of the vote, Cherry Creek news removed all references to Ron Paul from its article. Also, it appears that their results for McCain went from 19% to 11% somehow. This is proven by the snippet found on Google News. Depending on Google News, this may or may not update there. Here is a screenshot of what Google News says: And here is a screenshot of the article: Contact them to [...]
So, I keep seeing people posting comments around that say Ron Paul is a racist, and most of them refer to a 1992 mailing list post he allegedly wrote. This posting was controversial because it portrayed inner city Blacks in a bad light. It was protesting against the lack of police action against rioting, the Rodney King scandal, and inner city crime committed by Blacks. Now, I don’t think he was inferring that only Black people commit crime, or are [...]
I saw a post on Digg that caught my eye, and thought that this might be another way to gauge the amount of hardcore supporters each popular candidate has. I picked the following: Ron Paul Dennis Kucinich Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Rudy Giuliani Mitt Romney Mike Huckabee Fred Thompson John Edwards Mike Gravel John McCain Now, you would think that the number of hardcore supporters should correlate nicely with the number of voters turning out in the primaries since one [...]
I took this test to see which current presidential candidates my views align with, and got some pretty surprising results: It’s based on this table of the candidates views on popular issues, and how strong your feelings are on each one. A good tool indeed, and it should be publicized as a guideline for voters by our caring media since we all want voters to make informed decisions… The graph led to this: I have no explanation for this picture.
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