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Understanding Polls and Probabilities

Byhenry November 2, 2012

Jonathan Last defends Nate Silver, but it’s really just explaining what “probability” means. HT: Dispatches.

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Georgia and Ossetia – Asking the Right Questions
Byhenry August 15, 2008
I am not proposing answers at this point, because I haven’t had time to study the situation in any detail, but it seems to me the right time to point out some problems with the questions. It appears to me that almost everything I read about the situation with Georgia, Russia, and Ossetia involves ad…
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Surprise: Fixing Is Harder than Criticizing
Byhenry December 1, 2016
“The flaws in Obamacare are obvious to me. The solutions are much harder,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). (Source: Politico.) As a restatement of the obvious, that quote leaves little to be desired. Just so. I too can find plenty to criticize in the Affordable Care Act, which is not surprising for a law that…
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Christianity | Politics | Religion

To the IRD: Democracy is Biblical?
Byhenry October 14, 2011
Mark Tooley of the Institute for Religion and Democracy thinks that religious leaders should not be supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement: “Religious activists who have aligned with the Wall Street Occupation should model mature Christian discernment, not echo angry resentments that dream of a secular utopia.” That quote is highlighted at the top of…
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National Religious Freedom Day
Byhenry January 16, 2007
I should have known about this, but hat tip to Dispatches from the Culture Wars. Today is National Religious Freedom Day. I wonder why there is not more publicity surrounding this. Our freedom is a good thing to celebrate and defend.
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2008 U. S. Presidential Election | Politics

Why People Hate Hillary
Byhenry January 7, 2008
During the 1992 presidential campaign that gave us Bill Clinton, I remarked to a friend that if they would just swap out the candidates for their wives, they would have my vote. In particular I thought Hillary Clinton was substantially smarter than her husband. Since then I have lived in the south and watched eight…
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Afternoon Links (9/21/07)
Byhenry September 21, 2007
Just a couple of things that caught my eye: Fellow member of the moderate Christian blogroll Michael Westmoreland-White has written a post on the [tag]Jena 6[/tag], titled Racial Bias in the U.S. Courts: The Case of the Jena 6. He appears to have been following the case fairly closely, though this is the first time…
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