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Friday Daily Delawhere [2.17.12]

Filed in Delaware by on February 17, 2012 3 Comments
Friday Daily Delawhere [2.17.12]

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Occam’s Razor

Filed in National by on February 16, 2012 5 Comments
Occam’s Razor

To quote Captain Spock in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: “An ancestor of mine maintained that when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” This is basically the theory of Occam’s Razor, the principle that generally recommends that, from among competing hypotheses, selecting the one that makes the fewest new assumptions usually provides the correct one, and that the simplest explanation will be the most plausible until evidence is presented to prove it false. With that in mind (click through for a bigger version):

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Thursday Open Thread [2.16.12]

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Thursday Open Thread [2.16.12]

Nate Silver gives Santorum a 77% chance of winning the Michigan primary. He also now says the fundamentals favor an Obama victory in the fall.

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How Many of these Witnesses Can Get Pregnant?

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How Many of these Witnesses Can Get Pregnant?

The Republican House is holding a hearing against the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act. These are the witnesses:

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Don’t Tease Me Sarah.

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In the eventuality of a brokered convention, our good friend, former half term Governor Sarah Palin, has offered up her services.

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Rush Limbaugh Angry Republicans are Exposed as Theocratic Fascists

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Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves yesterday to charge that Democrats are using the Obama administration’s controversial mandate on contraception coverage to plot against Rick Santorum. Yeah, you just figured that out, Rushie?

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Delaware Liberal Tracking Poll Results: Karen Weldin Stewart

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The polls are closed on the job performance of Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart, and the results are, as expected, strongly negative for KWS. The polls are now open for Congressman John Carney.

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Thursday Daily Delawhere [2.16.12]

Filed in Delaware by on February 16, 2012 4 Comments
Thursday Daily Delawhere [2.16.12]

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Wednesday Open Thread [2.15.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on February 15, 2012 6 Comments

“If Romney were to lose Michigan, it is very difficult to see how he can accumulate a majority of delegates … And if Santorum does well in [poorer Michigan] districts, he could transfer that support to the other rust belt states that look a lot like them. The most important of these rust belt states is Ohio, which votes on 7 March. Michigan has somewhat fewer born-again Christians and evangelicals than Ohio (46%) did in the 2008 Republican primary. It had a nearly equal percentage of those making greater than $200,000 to Ohio’s (5%). If Rick Santorum can win in both Michigan and Ohio, I can begin to see how he could conceivably put together enough delegates to reach a majority. He seems to be polling well enough in the south (leading in Tennessee, for example) to win the nomination – even if he loses in states like New York, New Jersey and California (though a recent poll there put him in a close second).”

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Posthumous Baptism

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I am Catholic. A non-devout Catholic. A Cafeteria Catholic, as it were. I really do not care about what other Christian denominations or other religions believe or don’t believe. And I am not really offended by what they think about me and my beliefs. For example, I could be offended by the Evangelicals and their belief that I am going to Hell if I don’t “find” Jesus. Like I always tell them, I don’t need to find Jesus. I never lost Him.

But I digress.

Like I said, other religions can believe what they want. What they cannot do, however, is involve me in their religions against my will, or without my knowledge.

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Now Romney will Attempt to Destroy Santorum

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It is all he can do. Romney has no raison d’être for his candidacy. No vision. No core principles. He can’t beat a conservative opponent on ideas or on his conservative record. He can only beat him by carpet bombing the airwaves and raising Santorum’s negatives as high as his. And the more he does it, the more radioactive he becomes for the general election, and he is already at toxic levels as it is. After a prolonged battle with Santorum, Romney will be at Fukushima levels.

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Former Congressional Candidate Mike Miller to run in the new 6th

Filed in Delaware by on February 15, 2012 15 Comments

Mike Miller was one of the unknown candidates that ran against Mike Castle in 2000 and 2002. If memory vaguely serves, he has also tried to run for some other races in Kent County and statewide. In other words, he is a perennial losing candidate. And he is back. I bet he loses handily to Andy Staton. Staton has done the leg work for this race, preparing for years. Miller is just jumping in for vanity reasons.

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“Inconceivable!!!”

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“Inconceivable!!!”

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