I’m so bad. I didn’t blog about the Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting (CARR) workshop I attended to last week. I’m getting so lazy with my blogging.
The workshop lasted only two days, but it was very useful. Mark Tapscott, blogger and journalist, teaches CARR every year. The idea is to help journalists analyze data to find a good story or the real story behind the numbers. We went to various government web sites that posted Excel spreadsheets for download to figure out how they came up with the figures. Sometimes the agency doing the analyses or the journalist doing the story get the numbers wrong, and CARR training gives you the skills (and motivation) to run the numbers yourself. Excel has great functions and features, and you can sort the numbers in different ways and find a new and more interesting angle to a story.
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From The Brussels Journal:
The Netherlands and Belgium were the first countries to give full marriage rights to homosexuals. In the United States some politicians propose “civil unions†that give homosexual couples the full benefits and responsibilities of marriage. These civil unions differ from marriage only in name.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands polygamy has been legalised in all but name. Last Friday the first civil union of three partners was registered. Victor de Bruijn (46) from Roosendaal “married†both Bianca (31) and Mirjam (35) in a ceremony before a notary who duly registered their civil union.
Expect the same here if homosexual “marriage” or civil unions are ever legalized in this great country (God forbid it). Comments are closed on this post because such discussions tend to get rowdy, and I’m not in the mood today. The post at The Brussels Journal is wide open.
Knock yourselves out.
(Via Michelle Malkin)
Warning: Generalizations used to make a point, so don’t have a cow.
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Conservatives and Christians tend to be pro-Israel. As a Christian, I believe the nation of Israel will play a very important role in God’s unfolding plan of redemption. For years I’ve noticed that liberals are typically anti-Israel, and I’ve often wondered how Jewish Democrats feel about this or deal with anti-Semitism within their own party. The war in Iraq has brought out the true feelings of the anti-war crowd.
Liberals I know personally and read about tend to think along these lines: They believe problems in the Middle East stem from U.S. support of Israel. As secularists, they don’t believe in the Jews-as-God’s-chosen-people meme or that Jews have a historical claim to Israel. Some are pro-Palestine; others anti-Israel. And many couldn’t care less either way.
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by La Shawn on 09.28.05
in Lunacy
You can guess what I think of slavery reparations, but I’ll hold my tongue for now. I want to know what you think. Brown University created a committee to discuss the issue. Writer John McWhorter and others are scheduled to publicly discuss slavery reparations.
Other sources:
Update: I missed McWhorter’s latest on National Review, but here’s link to ‘Racism!’ They Charged.
You may also be interested in this post about a book forum I attended where McWhorter and others discussed similar issues.
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