Several people have asked me what what I think about Pastor Rick Warren giving the invocation at Obama's inauguration. Generally, it's not a huge deal to me, since in the big picture Warren has upset both extremes of the political spectrum by being at the ceremony.
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Rick Warren, the pastor who will deliver the invocation next month for Barack Obama, apparently is doing a little image-adjusting in West Hollywood.
Preliminary numbers from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center show that November 2008 was the 4th warmest on record globally. The full meteorological year 2008 (Dec 07 to Nov 08) will be one of the top 10 warmest years on record.
When voters in California, Florida and Arizona approved measures banning same-sex marriage last month, opponents lamented that the country appeared to be turning increasingly intolerant toward gay and lesbian rights.
The general statistics of the survey: According to the Pulse of Equality telephone survey among 2,008 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, conducted from Nov. 13-17, 2008, Americans support key policy proposals that affect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Among them:
Utah legislator Chris Buttars is drafting resolution to push for retailers to use "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays" because he claims that the United States is a "christian nation." Apparently Buttars is upset by retailers saying "Happy Holidays" to him, and he think …
The superintendent of the Ankeny, IA, school district has recommended that a book about two male penguins raising a chick together not be banned from a school library.
Despite active efforts to answer these questions [about climate science], the following pervasive myth arose: there was a consensus among climate scientists of the 1970s that either global cooling or a full-fledged ice age was imminent (see the "Perpetuating the myth" sidebar …
Al Franken takes a 4108 vote lead in the latest recount tally by the Minnesota Secretary of State, with 91.13% of ballots recounted.
Oklahoma is arguably the most conservative state in the union. Not only did every single county in the state (even Oklahoma County which contains most of the OKC metro area) vote republican, the state actually got more conservative since the last election.
Many by now have read the letter sent back in time from "A Christian from 2012". Focus on the Family's letter characterized all the gloom and doom that only a liberal could bring to American soil.
Iowa, one of the few midwest states remaining without a anti-same-sex marriage amendment on the books, now supports same-sex unions by nearly 60%. Less than 1/3 of Iowans actually are against any legal recognition of same-sex couples.
Fox News out of Cleveland did a story on a woman claiming to be the half sister of Elvis Presley. She claims that a random man claimed to be her half-brother.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA, pushed for the removal of a billboard sign advertising atheism because it offended a member of the city council. This is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution.
"Yes on 8" group has threatened the California Supreme Court that it will likely face a recall effort if it finds that Prop 8 was an amendment to the constitution and not just a simple revision.
An interesting dialogue regarding the same-sex marriage situation in California and the possible political ramifications ahead of us, written by a friend in state. Why I don't like Arnold Schwarzenegger by Will Coucheron-Aamot
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The protest against California's Proposition 8 is occurring all across the country tomorrow. Locally here in Iowa, the protest will occur on the riverfront in downtown Des Moines at 12:00pm noon.
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Radio host Mike Signorile takes a call from a Proposition 8 supporter in Amarillo, TX, who tries to defend her donation to the Yes on 8 campaign and to banning gay marriage.
Newsmax author David A. Patten claims that pollsters "inflated" Obama's lead to somehow depress turnout by McCain supporters. He makes this claim without providing any evidence to back it up, other than his perceived notion that the polls were wrong.
I released my final results for my partyID-weighted poll average model on the morning of the election. I also made a final prediction range for the popular vote results.
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Daily update from my partyID-weighted polling average. This will likely be the final update I make to this, so consider it my final projection of the race. Total sample size is just over 21,300 likely voters which yields of a margin of error that is 0.7% for both average numbers.
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Daily update from my partyID-weighted polling average. Total sample size is just over 21,600 likely voters which yields of a margin of error that is 0.7% for both average numbers. Expected turnout is set at 140,000,000 voters.
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Daily update from my partyID-weighted polling average. Total sample size is just over 16,000 likely voters which yields of a margin of error that is 0.8% for both average numbers. Expected turnout is set at 140,000,000 voters.
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Daily update from my partyID-weighted polling average. Added a new "statistics" box to the spreadsheet so that it was more apparent how many likely voters were used in my final calculation, and what the theoretical margin of error is with my method.
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Daily update from my partyID-weighted polling average. For more information on the methodology and for the spreadsheet I used to calculate these numbers, visit: -------------------------------------- October 31st
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Several people have asked me what what I think about Pastor Rick Warren giving the invocation at Obama's inauguration. Generally, it's not a huge deal to me, since in the big picture Warren has upset both extremes of the political spectrum by being at the ceremony.
Rick Warren, the pastor who will deliver the invocation next month for Barack Obama, apparently is doing a little image-adjusting in West Hollywood.
A school district in Westminster, CO, struggling with declining enrollment and falling test scores will try something revolutionary next year that many say never has been accomplished in the Lower 48.
A declaration signed by 66 Nations calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality has run into opposition on ideological grounds that are at best illogical but more likely point to deliberate repression.
What is the goal of the Anti-Gay Rights Movement? To criminalize homosexuality. Banning gay marriage is central to achieving that end. Anyone who thinks the religious right would stop at banning gay marriage has not been paying attention to the debate.