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The Middle Class as the Prime Mover in Public Opinion

November 20, 2009 - 12:11 pm

Posted in Equality Politics, Public Opinion | 3 Comments

(Or, Good News for Idealists!)
My sister is one of a handful of regular readers on this site. I think my brother is the other. (I have kind of small hands.) When I talk about political science with her, she usually walks away with two things: a better understanding of a concept and [...]

Zacarias Moussaoui and the Death Penalty

November 19, 2009 - 3:01 pm

Posted in War on Terror | No Comments

I’ll begin by admitting something: I’m opposed to the death penalty. While I’m going to stick to the math here and avoid the normative angle, I’m not going to pretend that my views won’t color my analysis. With that caveat in place, here we go:
I think a lot of people were surprised when they [...]

Special Interests and the Scope of the Health Care Debate

November 5, 2009 - 10:57 am

Posted in Health Care | 1 Comment

We’ve all seen it somewhere. Whether it be a high school parking lot, a dive bar in the rough part of town, or an upper-middle-class subdivision, there are fights everywhere. Some of these feature two fairly evenly-matched individuals, say two freshmen who feel the need to prove their manhood by shoving each other [...]

The Public Option as a Gender Issue

October 22, 2009 - 1:03 pm

Posted in Equality Politics, Gender Politics, Health Care | 1 Comment

When I was 24 and single, I decided it was time for a new car. The Hyundai that had served me so well since graduation just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Like every 24-year-old, I really wanted to go ahead and get a head start on my mid life crisis, and test drove a [...]

Obama and the Swine Flu

October 19, 2009 - 4:41 pm

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments

I’ve heard a good bit of late about Swine Flu. Apparently I’m not the only one. The interesting thing about this isn’t the disease. It’s basically Spanish Influenza, as far as I’m aware. What really interests me are the responses to the vaccine. Some people are actually treating this as [...]

What Political Scientists Do

October 19, 2009 - 4:02 pm

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

I have to say, I was both shocked and disappointed the other day. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has proposed an Amendment to prevent the National Science Foundation (NSF) from funding political science projects. (Coburn’s argument for the amendment can be read here.) Coburn makes some decent points, but he [...]