Another Reason to Distrust Polls?

Zombie at PJ Tatler notes this: Only 9% of sampled households gave an answer to pollsters in 2012: It has become increasingly difficult to contact potential respondents and to persuade them to participate. The percentage of households in a sample that are successfully interviewed – the response rate – has fallen dramatically. At Pew Research, the…

Learning the Lessons of History

Originally posted on January 2nd of this year, I thought that I would bring this back to the top due to the recent references to Alexander Fraser Tytler in another post. Just a little reminder from the Declaration of Independence: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the…

Arrested Development: The Age Of Obama

I read this from Joel Pollock at Breitbart (via Insty via Tim Cavanaugh at Reason): Romney is also the incumbent in a cultural sense–he is the old, rich, white guy that 45 years of higher education and Hollywood have inveighed against. He has a stake in the system and values that two successive generations of…