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• AMS Responds to Service-of-Denial Climate Hack

  
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  The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has issued a statement in response to the recent deniosphere blog storm over the theft and distribution of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. The AMS reaffirms its commitment to its Statement on Climate Change , ...
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• Scandal On Climate Change

  
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  Drudge linked this Telegraph.co.uk article entitled: Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation You folks who supported this myth better get your thinking caps on and quick. If the science was so solid, why have all of the cloak and dagger emails floating around?
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• THE DELUSIONS OF CROWDS

  
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  One of my formative political experiences, and one which almost single-handedly convinced me to pursue political behavior as an academic career, occurred in 1998 in a class I hated. More accurately it was in the class of a professor I hated, the resident expert on constitutional law and chasing 19 year old tail at ...
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• Quality is Ahmadinejad 1

  
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  This Economist piece is tapped by Fausta to explain “socialist production principles” in the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez: Venirauto’s cars are rehashes of clapped-out 1980s models from the imperialist West. The Turpial, a five-door hatchback, is based on the Ford Festiva, while the Centauro saloon is a ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
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  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
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  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Some Questions for Margrethe Vestager

  
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  No, nothing rhetorical or sarcastic here: It’s the real deal. On Tuesday, 1 December 2009, a distinguished team consisting of Lene Rimestad and yours truly will be cross-examining the political leader of the Social Liberal Party (aka Radikale Venstre) Margrethe Vestager between noon and 2 pm. in front of a no ...
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• The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa--Now in Paperback

  
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  The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa René Lemarchand 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4120-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2090-2 | $27.50 | £18.00 A volume in the National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century series This collection of essays explores the ...
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• The Age of Apology--Now In Paperback

  
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  The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past Edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4033-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2087-2 | $26.50 | £17.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights ...
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• What careers would a person with a political science be able to obtain?

  
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  Basically I am thinking of obtaining a degree in political science but I do not know what careers I could get with this degree?
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• How worried should we be about the deficit?

  
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  There have been many posts on this topic lately, start with Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong if you need to catch up.  Today I have a few simple points: 1. Even if "it is fine to borrow more" is the most likely scenario, it is not the only scenario.  Lets take a page from Marty Weitzman on climate change.  The ...
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• MA in Politcal Science v. M Public Policy

  
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  ¿Master in Political Science or Master in Public Policy? Im an Spaniard that wants to study a Master in the US next year. After a lot of research my final list of universities Im applying, is this one: 1.Georgetown 2. U. of Chicago 3. Columbia 4. NYU 5. GWU 6. Northeastern 7. American University 8. Loyola University ...
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• you’ve entered … the skocpol zone!!!

  
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  Orgheads know that I [heart] Theda Skocpol. I [heart] her because she’s a rockin’ dean . And I [heart] her because she’s a rockin’ historical sociologist . Gosh, there’s so much to [heart]. What I like about Skocpol’s historical sociology is tha tshe  manages to do two things that are fairly hard. ...
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• A GOP Standard..

  
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  This list comes from MSNBC , it is supposedly a resolution being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members as a proposed litmus test for Republican candidates. So far it goes like this, you are a Republican if you support/vote for: (1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and ...
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• Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America--Now Available

  
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  Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America Michael L. Ondaatje 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4206-5 | $34.95 | £23.00 Michael L. Ondaatje examines the ideas and arguments of prominent black conservative thinkers during the past three decades, charting the evolution of black conservative ...
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• UNDP Consultant Advocates Some Proportional Representation in Nigeria

  
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  As Nigerian legislators are working to review and amend the Nigerian 1999 constitution, a UNDP consultant, Professor Sam Egwu, has advocated the inclusion of proportional representation in the constitution to cater for special interests of minorities, women and the disabled. Delivering a paper, entitled ...
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• The price of ascendancy

  
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  From a compelling story in the New York Times Magazine : In an age of DNA, when biological relationships can be identified with certainty, it can seem absurd to hew so closely to a centuries-old idea of paternity. And yet basing paternity decisions solely on genetics places the nonbiological father’s welfare ...
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• Ann Althouse on Andrew Sullivans Campaign to Destroy Sarah Palin

  
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  From Ann Althouse, "" Andrew Sullivan Has Discovered the Michelle Goldberg/Ann Althouse Diavlog ." Ann rebuts one of the "lies" of Sarah Palin, alleged by Sullivan: Calling something like this a lie marks you as someone whos centered not on finding out what is true, but on destroying someone. It doesnt ...
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• The Republic for Richard Stans

  
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  A ten-year-old in northwest Arkansas has decided to boycott the Pledge of Allegiance: “Liberty and justice for all?” Will Phillips doesn’t believe that describes America for its gay and lesbian citizens. He’s a 10-year-old at West Fork Elementary School in Arkansas, about three hours east of Oklahoma City. ...
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• Dammit LinkedIn, I’m a college dropout!

  
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  My LinkedIn profile is 85% complete. It has been since I first signed up, and probably will be in 5 years. Why? Because I have not included my education. Here’s my recent correspondence with LinkedIn: I do not wish to include education in my profile. I am a self-employed college dropout, and it is not ...
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