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I heard the angry arab guy on NPR yesterday. He's a prof at California State University, Stanislaus (in the Sierra foothills). His peeps are from south Lebanon.
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"The report also found that conservative Christian schools -- a constituency that supports vouchers -- lagged significantly behind public schools in eighth-grade math. The report supported similar findings from a University of Illinois study on math."
"Fundamentalist conservatives will be sorely disappointed if the government doen't come through with those vouchers because they are really counting on the eleventy three-hundert dollars per student which will allow them to purchase copies of Heather's Mommy Speaks in Tongues and Biology 101: Men Are From Dust, Women Are From Ribs."
ill have to put this down as one of gilliards dumber conclusions. glad most of his commenters have more sense than he.
...former Nixon Whitehouse counsel John Dean has a fascinating new book out called "Conservatives Without Conscience"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670037745/sr=8-1/qid=1153338179/ref=pd _bbs_1/103-2568283-7396653?ie=UTF8
The core of the books is his presentation of current research on the connection between contemporary so-called "conservativism" and a distinctly right-wing authoritarian mindset.
A couple of university-level peer-reviewed studies Dean cites can be found here:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/gjonas.pdf
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/reply.pdf
Money quote:
"the current state of evidence warrants the conclusion that (at least in the general population) right-wing conservatism is positively related to dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity; uncertainty avoidance; fear of threat, loss, and death; system instability; and epistemic needs to achieve order, structure, and closure, as well as negatively related to openness to experience, integrative complexity, and (to a lesser extent) self-esteem."
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Billmon makes an interesting point:
In that sense, Hezbollah may have found the sweet spot in Fourth Generation War: It isn't a state and doesn't carry the political or defensive burdens of one, but it controls enough territory, commands enough popular loyalty and has enough allies to mount some fairly sophisticated military operations, using both conventional and nonconventional weapons. It's powerful enough to be successful -- and be seen as successful -- but not so powerful that state actors like Israel can fight it on equal terms. We may be looking at the New Model Army of the 21st century.
anyone think this israeli offensive is good for bush politically (and neocon agenda) ? rice is publicly urging restraint. but is possible there was inside encouragement?
George W. Bush's surprisingly good linguistic skills from 10 years ago.
living with war today