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Archives for August 2006
Newt Gingrich And Tom DeLay
Representing the centrist take on the Lieberman race, Joe Gandelman strongly recommends this post at the Glittering Eye (emphasis mine): My first reaction to last night’s results with Lieberman, McKinney, and Schwarz all defeated was that there was an anti-incumbency movement at work. But on reconsideration I’ve decided that, as James Joyner notes, the results …
The Global Climate Consensus
Ben Santer may be one of the most important scientists that you’ve never heard of. Dr. Santer authored three papers that cleared up the discrepancies between different types of satellite data, which resolved one of the major remaining inconsistencies between climate models and measurement. Dr. Santer also co-authored last year’s definitive report, commissioned by the …
The End Of Joe
It looks like the end of the line for Holy Joe: Ned Lamont, a Connecticut millionaire whose candidacy for the United States Senate soared from nowhere on a fierce antiwar message, won a narrow victory in the Democratic primary last night over the incumbent, Joseph I. Lieberman. Senator Lieberman, a national party leader and the …
Searchcrime
For reasons of its own AOL recently released a ~450 mb file containing three months of search records for 650,000 AOL users. They took it offline fairly quickly, but by that time the file had already crossed the globe seventeen or eighteen times. Christian Beckner at Defensetech writes (formatting his): People are already poring through …
Primary Thread
There are primaries today in Missouri, Connecticut and Michigan, while Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) faces a special election after a narrow primary upset. Will Rep. Joe Schwarz (R-MI) prove too moderate for today’s Republican party? Have GOP activists gone purge crazy? Discuss whether today’s GOP has any room for principled moderates and any other primary-related …
Open Thread
Smithers, release the jackalopes.