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IQ, Intelligence and Social Engineering

In a recent set of 3 articles 1, 2 and 3, in the Wall Street Journal, Charles Murray makes a series of provocative assertions and proposals concerning education in the United States. In short order, he argues:
1. By definition, 50% of the human race has below average intelligence.
2. Even the highest quality education […]

Confronting the Elephants

Hello all,
Been off the site for a few weeks due to work issues, etc. I’m still a bit strapped, but I wanted to forward something written by someone else. The following is a post I read on the John Edwards for President site. The author goes by the name Happy Warrior. I’ll say up front […]

John Edwards Stays the Course

Democrat John Edwards has officially declared his candidacy for the Presidency. The announcement came from New Orleans where Edwards was shown helping folks rebuild their homes after Katrina. The video I saw on CNN (go to the “Edwards explains why he’s running for president again” link on the page) was standard democratic “man of […]

Gay Families

Recently in Time magazine James Dobson wrote a piece in which he commented on Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter and her partner having a baby together. Dobson is against homosexual parenting in general and used this particular article to explain why. His primary objections are clearly religious, and he is quite up front […]

WMD

Hello all,
I’m going to start with an old question that just still confuses me: WMD and the justification for the Iraq war. Let me lay out the points as I understand and remember them.
1. The primary reason that the Bush administration gave for the invasion was the real threat posed to the US by The […]

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