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Spread the word - Sarah Palin voted with radical right-winger Pat Buchanan, supports creationism, opposes environmental regulation, and is a climate change denialist. Read the full report here.

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If Sarah Palin promises appeal to women and independents, it will be less for her ideas and successes, than for her gender and her hitherto unfulfilled promise. As a commenter at “Yes to Democracy” pointed out, McCain had two strategies going into this week: either continue to harp on Obama’s inexperience, or exploit the wedge [...]

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Ouch. But, possibly fair. Palin has the look of the unthoroughly vetted: she doesn’t fit in with McCain’s main spin, she faces corruption problems, and… she supports Obama. This is a feel-good rollout that might appeal to moderate women voters. For the weekend.

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In a surprise move, John McCain has tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Selecting an individual to be your running mate is an implicit acknowledgment of that person’s Presidential qualifications. Especially because the gloomy but real prospects stemming from McCain’s age mean that his running mate may, realistically, have to step into the Oval Office, [...]

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It stands as a basic precept of academic integrity that careful thought be met with careful thought; far be it for a footsoldier in the culture wars to attack a tenured professor’s lengthily reasoned treatise, save for at length, and thoroughly. Thus we begin the final installment in our three-part series, analyzing an anonymous Discovery [...]

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