I have graded one paper since 10:30am this morning. Anyone else getting basically nothing done?
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Just kidding. Apparently some Obama voter may have shifted her residency from Florida to New York, despite intending to move back to New York. Brian Faughnan of Red State, however, insinuates that...
I will freely admit to being a FiveThirtyEight junkie over the past few months. The excellent analysis and projection that they do over there is more than a little reminiscent of my favorite...
[Updated: Thanks to commentator Aldous for pointing out an error in my original predictions--I had Montana for Obama and neglected to include Nevada]I am not, by any stretch, and expert at...
Larry King on CNN: Dixville Notch, NH goes for Obama, 15 - 6.First time that city has gone D since 1968.Sign of the times-- the results are already up on Wikipedia, not even 15 minutes after midnight, early election day morning.
Whomever wins today, we can safely look forward, I think, to a President who will tread more carefully on the fine line between protecting national security from "global terrorism" and upholding international commitments to fundamental human rights and the rule of law. Fortunately for that person and his advisors, Simon Fraser University's Human Security Report Project just released its weekly bulletin. "In Focus" this week is "Terrorism." The bulletin provides a useful round-up of the latest research on terrorism trends (from Rand Corporation: Al Qaeda and Its Affiliates: A Global Tribe...
Readers of the Duck were privy to only part of a larger Duck-bloggers and Duck-regulars discussion concerning video footage of a McCain rally at Lehigh University.The discussion included an email missive from Andreas Behnke that I found quite touching. I asked Andreas for permission to post his comments, and he agreed. As we now approach the final hours of the 2008 Presidential campaign--a contest Obama is far more likely than not to win--I think it an appropriate time to share Andreas's thoughts:Wow, that [the video] was fun... Each and every society has a certain percentage of flotsam and...
As many of us remain riveted to the final hours of the 2008 US Presidential campaign, the people of the Congo face a more dangerous and destructive contest: Gen. Laurent Nkunda's offensive against the Congolese government. The offensive has produced a major refugee crisis: "Last week's fighting in the east of the country displaced up to 100,000 civilians, of whom 60 per cent were children, the United Nations Children's Fund said yesterday." Both France and the UK are considering military options; the UN has arranged for talks between Rwanda--which backs Nkunda's Tutsi force--and the Congo in...