PLAYING THE RACE CARD.....is not a tactic limited to the Republicans trying to capture the south in the presidential election of 1968---though that's when the phrase was first used. Want to know how the American left plays that card? Read on .
IS ISLAM LIKELY TO CONQUER EUROPE? A new book argues that the game is afoot and that the outcome is likely to be the ultimate establishment of Eurabia. But this review from the L.A. Times suggests otherwise--with, to be sure, something less than o'erweening confidence.
ACCORDING TO THE RASMUSSEN POLLSTERS.....Obama has lost the glow of high approval that he maintained in the first months of his presidency. Eleven percent more of the sample "strongly disapprove" than "strongly approve" of his performance. The details are fascinating ---for people who find such stuff interesting (as the proprietor of this blog, a professor of social psychology in real life, surely does.
BOB DOLE CHECKS IN ON HEALTH CARE.....and makes a good deal of sense, particularly in urging that the president put forward a bill that leaves out the "public" (i.e. governmental) "option" (i.e. monopoly).
COULD THIS NEWSWEEK ARTICLE HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM U.S. NEWS? Just kidding folks! But when is plagiarism not an unintended failure of cognitive processing but, rather, a simple matter of fraud and theft? Methinks that copping the psychological plea (as this article does) lets some miscreants off the hook on which they (including former Harvard professors) should be impaled.
THE BIG SWITCH FROM LEFT TO RIGHT.....in Samoa is not actually political---except for the great protest movement. To understand this stuff you have to read this fascinating account from the Wall Street Journal.
WHEN COMPAY SECUNDO AND HIS CUBAN FRIENDS WENT TO MADRID.....they recorded performances as good as any they did during the great Buena Vista sessions. And here they are for what is bound to be your great listening pleasure.
IS ISLAM LIKELY TO CONQUER EUROPE? A new book argues that the game is afoot and that the outcome is likely to be the ultimate establishment of Eurabia. But this review from the L.A. Times suggests otherwise--with, to be sure, something less than o'erweening confidence.
ACCORDING TO THE RASMUSSEN POLLSTERS.....Obama has lost the glow of high approval that he maintained in the first months of his presidency. Eleven percent more of the sample "strongly disapprove" than "strongly approve" of his performance. The details are fascinating ---for people who find such stuff interesting (as the proprietor of this blog, a professor of social psychology in real life, surely does.
BOB DOLE CHECKS IN ON HEALTH CARE.....and makes a good deal of sense, particularly in urging that the president put forward a bill that leaves out the "public" (i.e. governmental) "option" (i.e. monopoly).
COULD THIS NEWSWEEK ARTICLE HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM U.S. NEWS? Just kidding folks! But when is plagiarism not an unintended failure of cognitive processing but, rather, a simple matter of fraud and theft? Methinks that copping the psychological plea (as this article does) lets some miscreants off the hook on which they (including former Harvard professors) should be impaled.
THE BIG SWITCH FROM LEFT TO RIGHT.....in Samoa is not actually political---except for the great protest movement. To understand this stuff you have to read this fascinating account from the Wall Street Journal.
WHEN COMPAY SECUNDO AND HIS CUBAN FRIENDS WENT TO MADRID.....they recorded performances as good as any they did during the great Buena Vista sessions. And here they are for what is bound to be your great listening pleasure.
