Pat Lynch About five years ago a friend was visiting my home in Washington, DC (I’m a recovering academic from a previous life…..) and noticed a copy of Jack High and Clayton Coppin’s Politics of Purity on one of my cheap and ultimately doomed Ikea bookshelves. He turned, looked at me, and said “man, you …
Pat Lynch Have been consistently surprised and disappointed by the extended public and private mourning period the American left is wallowing in. The public hand-wringing over the values debate has obscured a more disturbing trend I’ve seen among Democrats – conceit. Implicit in a lot of the complaints from the left has been the notion …
Lynne Kiesling Please join me in welcoming our first guest-blogger, political scientist Pat Lynch. Pat is a fellow at Liberty Fund, and has done extensive writing on the confluence of economic and political aspects of elections. I hope that the variety that Pat brings to our studiously apolitical site will be thought- and conversation-provoking.
Lynne Kiesling Please join me in welcoming our first guest-blogger, political scientist Pat Lynch. Pat is a fellow at Liberty Fund, and has done extensive writing on the confluence of economic and political aspects of elections. I hope that the variety that Pat brings to our studiously apolitical site will be thought- and conversation-provoking.
Pat Lynch Greetings, and thanks to Lynne for allowing me to do a little posting here at Knowledge Problem. Pundits, politicians, and friends of mine have been picking over the exit poll data that have shown a remarkable turnout among core Republican voters, especially evangelical Christians. A lot has been made about how this election …
Michael Giberson Bush won? That’s odd. The Redskins lost their last home game prior to the presidential election, which since 1936 has been followed by a victory for the non-incumbent?s party. (See REDSKIN HOME GAME ELECTION PREDICTOR) The TV announcers covering Sunday?s Redskins-Packers game mentioned this tidbit of trivia many times during the game. I …
Lynne Kiesling OK, those of you with more time than I have today, here’s a homework assignment: take Ohio’s data on the number of provisional ballots received, and use Ohio’s county-by-county breakdown of votes from yesterday to estimate the final vote count if all provisional ballots are valid and if yesterday’s vote count is taken …
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Michael Giberson A documentary on the media, Orwell Rolls Over in his Grave, opens today in the Washington, D.C., area, reminding me of the recent newspaper story in the Washington Post about the dominance of left-leaning view points in documentary movies (“Liberal Documentarians Are the Reel Majority“). The newspaper article by Tommy Nguyen asks why, …
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French President Jacques Chirac mouthing off with defensive and not-so-thinly veiled threats to would-be EU members, according to this AP story (courtesy of Glenn Reynolds. Some selections: BRUSSELS, Belgium – French President Jacques Chirac launched a withering attack Monday on eastern European nations who signed letters backing the U.S. position on Iraq, warning it could …
(Warning: this is a rant) OK … the antidote to my hopefulness. I just walked home from the el, which I took to work today because the rain threatened this morning and put me off of bicycling. Greenpeace has a bunch of their summer student employees out and about spreading the word about Mother Earth, …
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