MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN EGYPTIAN ELECTION

The Muslim Brotherhood is not following through on its promises to run for only 50% of the seats and its candidates do not seem to include any moderate elements.. It looks like they are making every effort to win the next Egyptian election.

THE VIOLENCE OF TEA BAGGERS

From the Daily Kos. If I get a chance I will put up some links on the violence of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. From 2009.

Occupy Wall Street protest disrupts a mass. In Oakland the protestors pelt police. Shoot a cop? Problems at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

RELIGIOUS FAITH IN THE US

An interactive map at USA Today giving the breakdown of various faith commitments in each state.

OBAMA & BUSH, II

I remember when the press was going after George W. Bush for not wanting to say he had made any mistakes in office. Now Obama has essentially said the same thing: . . .even though I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones, . . .

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE SUMMARY

A compilation of postings on the problems facing higher education.

THE LEFT IS TURNING ON OBAMA

A discussion of the strategy of the "Occupy Wall-Street" protestors. Obama's jobs stimulus is in trouble even with Democrats on Capitol Hill.

The left got what it wanted in 2008: a liberal president with a sweeping agenda and big Democratic majorities capable of enacting it. The result has been a great and failed experiment in progressive politics and governance. In due course, one hopes, the left will absorb some lessons--but for now, they seem to be suffering a nervous breakdown.



What's their slogan going to be, "Smash the system--re-elect the president"?

OCCUPY ATLANTA

The protestors won't even let a liberal Democrat congressman speak.

Instead of giving the floor to a man who is not just a longtime U.S. representative but a revered civil rights icon, the protesters employed a tangle of parliamentary procedures to ultimately prevent him from speaking.

Sounds like the anti-Vietnam protestors of my day.

WHICH POLITICAL PARTY IS MORE ANTI-SCIENCE?

Read the article. A fight has broken out in the blogosphere over whether Team Blue or Team Red is more “anti-science.” Microbiologist Alex Berezow, editor of RealClearScience, struck the first blow in the pages of USA Today. "For every anti-science Republican that exists," he wrote, "there is at least one anti-science Democrat. Neither party has a monopoly on scientific illiteracy."

DONKEY CAUGHT IN A HOLE

I kept wondering if this is where the Democrats are right now as they try to dig out of the economic mess the country is in.

MAPPING THE CENSUS

An interesting interactive map. Put in your zip code and you can find data for the last three censuses on population make-up.