Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
April 19th, 2008
- Framing Science : American Views of Religious Groups and Atheists
- Pew Research Center: No Clear Advantage
Electability is an issue, and one that both Senators Obama and Clinton are likely to use to woo the superdelegates. But our polling suggests that neither candidate has a demonstrable advantage to tout.
- ‘We have been wimpish about defending our ideas’ | The Spectator
Salman Rushdie tells Matthew d’Ancona that the idea at the heart of his new novel set in 16th-century Florence and India is that universal values exist and require robust champions
- FactCheck.org: Taking Liberties in Philadelphia
Clinton and Obama both strained the facts at times during their debate in Philadelphia.
Clinton said “people died” in 1970s bombings by a radical group of which an Obama acquaintance was a member. In fact, the deaths were of three members of the Weather Underground itself, who died when their own bombs accidentally exploded.
Obama said, “I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins.” Actually, he did. He said last year, “I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest” because it had become “a substitute for … true patriotism” during the run-up to the Iraq war.
- Good Math, Bad Math : Ben Stein and Darwin: Truth is what matters.
Does the truth become less true because some idiot used it to justify something awful?
Science isn’t morality. Science describes what is. Morality defines our understanding of right and wrong. Science doesn’t tell us what’s morally right and wrong. It tells us what is. It can allows us to reason from what we know, to determine the effect of an action, which can allow us to decide whether that action is morally right or wrong. But the science doesn’t tell us what’s moral.
- The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » Is Obama Teflon? Picks Up Ground Even with the ‘Klingons’
