VP Picks - Subordinate or Submissive

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 6:01 AM PDT

2008/09/06 · 06:01

The vice president is supposed to be subordinate to the president. Likewise, the candidates for president are number 1 - the candidates for vice president are number 2. But McCain wants Palin to be submissive, not just subordinate.

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 9:24 AM PST

2006/01/27 · 09:24

During the 1998 House debates leading up to the vote on the Clinton Articles of Impeachment, then-Representative/now-Senator, Lindsey Graham said the following(PDF):

Mr. Speaker, this long and difficult process for all of us in the House is almost to a conclusion. Twenty-five years ago a Democratic-controlled Judiciary Committee with a minority of Republicans reported articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. Why? Nixon cheated. He cheated the electoral system by concealing efforts of a political break-in. And his people thought the other side deserved to be cheated. They thought his enemies deserved to be mistreated. Ladies and gentlemen, they were wrong.

If Graham thinks cheating the electoral system is an impeachable offense, then he must be in favor of impeaching President Bush. Read More

New Theory on Miers Nomination

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 11:18 AM PDT

2005/10/19 · 11:18

This is purely conjecture, but I have a theory on why Bush picked Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. I've been toying with the theory since she was first nominated, but this article in USA Today, about who was involved in the selection process, prompted me to write this diary. Two other facts that are the basis for the theory are Harriet Miers' age and her closeness to George Bush.

In short, Bush never intended for Miers to actually end up on the court, but was only using her to open up the door for a hard-core right-wing candidate. Read More

Bogus Graph on Yahoo News

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Thursday February 17, 2005 · 9:57 AM PST

2005/02/17 · 09:57

Yahoo News has a graph, courtesy the Department of Labor, that show jobless claims back to December 11th. The problem with the graph is that the baseline for jobless claims (the vertical axis) is 300(x1000) instead of zero. So the number of jobless claims for the most recent week (302,000) appears to be about 1/20th the number for the highest week (367,000 for the week of January 8th).

The graph appears below. Read More

The Answers to Tuesday's National Test

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 9:07 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 09:07

I thought I was prepared for the National Test on Nov. 2nd. Sure it had been a while since I've taken a test, but I had done my homework and felt ready. How could I have failed so miserably?

Fortunately, a friend works at the National Test Center and got me a copy of the correct answers. So, for the benefit of the 55+ million Americans who, like me, failed the test, here's what we should have answered. Read More

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Bogus Graph on Yahoo News

The Answers to Tuesday's National Test