http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:26:12 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:26:12 RON PAUL: WHY SHOULD HE WORRY SOMEONE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY?


Ron Paul won’t win the presidential election, or come anywhere near it. He will continue to be a Texas Congressman. I will continue to live in England, thousands of miles away from him. So why should I worry about him?


Some quo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/29 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:50:19 I think that there are differences between plausible and less plausible CTs, and also between a hypothesis that is rejected when the evidence does not support, and one which is held firmly in spite of the evidence.

There are indeed 'dangers of allowing fantastic, baseless ideas to morph into a be... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/28 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:04:35 that anyone who is against the establishment can't be all bad/ that the left-right distinction is artificial/ that temporary alliances between progressives and anti-war or anti-establishment right-wingers are acceptable in the cause of single-issue campaigns/ that 'even a stopped clock is right twic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/27 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:34:13 Admittedly I have not read the Prager/Telushkin books on antisemitism, and I take your point that they're not about politics. However I would find it difficult to fully take Prager's views on antisemitism on board, when he is himself such a xenophobe and so culturally intolerant.

The word 'conser... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/25 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:07:11 Firstly, I agree that one cannot/should not 'eradicate' conservativism, as that would require totalitarianism.

Also, there are many 'conservative' individuals and parties in various parts of the world that are conservative just in the sense of distrusting radical change, and preferring to stick t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/23 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:05:51 There were other people who helped to earn those children their desks.

Most directly, the people who paid for them. The taxpayers. Republicans and their RW equivalents elsewhere regard it as a patriotic duty to fight for your country (even if they often think it should be someone else's patriotic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/26 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:53:54 While there are plenty of genuine criticisms one can make of Israel, they are not the reason for anti-semitism which long predated the State of Israel. One could as well say that racism is caused by people's objections to certain African leaders.

Moreover, I feel that there is a certain type of h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/19 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:36:46 but I think that the *reality* of liberty *for all* can only come from the left, or at least from outside the real right.

As I said on another thread, one cannot do without *either* civil liberties *or* humane social and economic policies that protect people from discrimination, poverty and hards... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/18 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:51:46 Here is an interesting article by Elizabeth Spelke on (lack of) intrinsic gender differences in maths and science: particularly interesting for its report on steady reduction over the years in gender differences in science and maths.

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~lds/sexsci/

Here's a debate on ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/3 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:49:49 http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyscalculia.html

You might also be interested in the e-mail discussion group about mathematical difficulties and interventions:

www.numeracyintervention.net... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/10 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:54:07 in Pipes expressing concern that the Muslim immigrants will take over, and destroy Europaean values, when he himself (or at least people whom he endorses) seem to want nothing more than to destroy Europaean values themselves!

Mark Steyn, with his approval, argued that: 'freeing up Europe's funds ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/16 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:39:45 Boys and girls within a family can be treated very differently.

It's not news that *overall* males tend to be closer to the extremes in all sorts of tests. If there's a genetic basis, it would presumably be due to the fact that unusual recessive genes on the X chromosome will usually be suppresse... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/5 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:05:02 A few British variants, with a great deal of interbreeding and cross-fertilization:

Taxophobius Thatcheritus: Obsessed with the evils of taxes, and would much rather see all public services run to the ground than pay a penny more in tax. Considers that if people are poor it's their own fault for ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/14 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:21:56 is largely the old antisemitism, changing as always in detail to accommodate new contexts.

There has always been antisemitism in Britain. George Orwell wrote an interesting essay on the subject in the 1940s:

www.george-orwell.org/AntiSemitism_In_Britian/0.html

My view is that it is part of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/15 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:20:57 Market-style competition in the public services, whether between individuals or between institutions (as in our 'league tables' of schools in the UK), may sound like a good idea, but tends to prove disastrous. Schools become factories, teachers become assembly line workers, and children become proce... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/2 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:10:23 is not in doubt.

The question is whether there is a 'massive influx' with Europaean countries being 'overrun' by Muslims. And no, this is not the case.

The main opposition to Muslim (and other) immigration does not come from liberals who are worried about people who might e.g. vote against wom... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/12 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:04:31 Anti-immigrant prejudice is a long-standing problem in most Europaean countries. It has recently become linked with Islamophobia due to the fears about terrorism; but it preceded the recent fears by a long time, and is not limited to Muslims.

In the UK, we don't have much in the way of right-wing... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/13 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:58:47 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6738063.stm

Nice to see someone official coming out with this.

Needless to say, the government doesn't agree with them!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/1 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:25:31 Some think they ruin mathematical skills; others that they are a liberator. In fact, considering the intensity of the debate, actual studies suggest that the use of calculators as such has relatively little effect, one way or the other, on mathematical skills; though the *ways* in which they're used... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/4 Thu, 24 May 2007 19:11:34 It is thought by many researchers on autism that the idea of an major epidemic in autism has been exaggerated.

At one end of the scale, children, who were in the past considered as 'naughty', 'emotionally disturbed', 'maladjusted, or just 'odd', are now often diagnosed as 'high-functioning autis... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/9 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:29:07 It's sometimes referred to as the "Daily Hate" or "Hate-Mail". They are particularly noted for whipping up hostility to all immigrants and asylum-seekers. Their news reports are known for being sensational and unreliable.

This may give you an idea:

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LeftishBrit/11 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:35:40