By Selwyn Duke
Sometimes it’s hard to know if mainstream-media nonsense is the result of deceit (motivated by a desire to either draw readers or manipulate them) or just plain stupidity, but it’s often both. Such a case is the "surprise" registered by some in the media over Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama. Yeah, sure, it’s a real shocker when one leftist supports another.
By Selwyn Duke
The most interesting presidential poll of all doesn’t go by the name of Rasmussen, Zogby or Gallup but, believe it or not, Nickelodeon. Every year the children’s TV station has its young viewers weigh in on who they would choose for president, and they have picked the winner four of the last five presidential elections.
By Selwyn Duke
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Absent the ability to read minds and hearts, I can’t really tell you if
Barack Obama is uniquely dishonest. What
is for certain, though, is that his campaign is uniquely deceitful. These two things are not synonymous. Politicians are famous for suppressing facts
and manufacturing fantasies to hide their faults, and, while Obama certainly
practices this sleight-of-hand, I can’t say he is more inured to it that your
average prevaricating pol. But what is
doubtless is that he has more faults to hide.
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By Selwyn Duke
As some of you know, RealClearPolitics.com provides a daily-updated average of a great number of presidential-election polls. And, at the moment, their methodology has Barack Obama up by 6.9 points. Now, although what I studied in "Probability and Statistics" class a couple of decades ago is a little fuzzy, it occurs to me that it’s not logical to include polls at extreme ends of the spectrum (the CBS News/NY Times poll has Obama up by 14), as it’s possible that many of them either use non-representative samples of the population or are anomalies. So I have calculated the average taking this factor into consideration.
By Selwyn Duke
There is a big difference between leftists’ contempt for the Bible and that which they harbor for the Constitution.
Welcome to the New Fascism, Obama Style
Imagine that you express an opinion about a political candidate and law enforcement comes knocking on your door. The prospect of this occurring in Missouri may be very real, as this news report indicates. It is about how Barack Obama has enlisted the aid of the authorities in that state to stifle free speech.
The thought police are on the march and are poised to seize the reins of power in November. Be vigilant.
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