Reading Time: < 1 minute The United States Bureau of Statistics has revealed what a map of America would look like right now if each state had a 50% chance of being red or blue. “The future is hard to predict,” said Liam Smalls, a spokesman for the Bureau. “However, we can be utterly certain about which side of the coin […]
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Poll Analysis: Clinton vs Biden in Swing States; Grassroots Texas
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am interested in the polls for a host of reasons, not least because they supposedly got it so wrong in 2016 (they didn’t nationally, though Wisconsin was inaccurate and some other states to a degree) and, if you look at present polls with a squint, they look no different to the Clinton polls and […]
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The Pope, Catholicism and Trump, and other US Political News
Reading Time: 6 minutes Trump’s Covid Trump has just returned from hospital, seemingly fairly well. I don’t go in for conspiracy theories, but these things always persist when there is a lack of transparency and clarity, which there clearly is on a number of things: When did Trump last test negative? What’s going on with his lungs and CT […]
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Media Buys: Appeasing the Baby
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes, this will be a value-laden political point. I’ll get back to the Argument from Reason in my next post. For the time being, let me talk about the leader of the free world, Donald Trump. The point I want to make today revolves around the fact that his re-election campaign team have just paid […]
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CNN Humiliates Trump with Reply Letter to Trump’s Hissy Fit
Reading Time: 4 minutes Well, it should humiliate him, but will no doubt be water off a duck’s back. As we all know, Trump is the most presidential of presidents. He doesn’t react like a toddler, or a megalomaniacal narcissist. What’s that? Oh, sorry, that’s exactly what he does. When he was upset with poll numbers recently, he decided to […]
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Good God, America, What Are You Doing to Yourselves?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Well, okay, so it’s not all of America, just Trump, his administration (though perhaps mainly Trump there) and a not insignificant number of his rabid supporters. There are a good many American spectators looking upon this with incredulous and worried stares, mouths agape. And if there was a good god, then we would not be […]
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Poll: “Majority of white adults say they have no religion and the number is set to rise”
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Daily Mail reports of a new YouGov poll: The majority of white Britons say they have no religion, a new study shows. Research reveals that 46 per cent of adults of all races identify as having no religion, compared with the 42 per cent who considered themselves Christian. The dwindling number of Christians could […]
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How Religious are Americans? Not as Much as You Think.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Americans are famously religious when compared to other countries in the West. But new studies have peeked behind the curtain to determine how religious Americans really are. It turns out that they’re not as religious as we thought.
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New Jersey is God-Fearing, Not So Much Devil-Fearing
Reading Time: 3 minutes You know what they say about New Jersey. No, not that thing. The other thing: Only the strong survive. If this is so, basic science literacy is just barely surviving, though starving, abused, and neglected. Though I make my home in Maine and have spent years in Virginia and DC, I am a native New […]