- Did you know there’s a Secret 9/11 case before high court? Wonder if the Supremes will make information about it public. [endwar]
- As I mentioned on Halloween , the military is engaged in some Nation-building on the double in Iraq.
Nice work, guys. [instapundit]The 101st [Airborne] is furiously working to build civic institutions and kick-start the economy (while also making sure nobody blows up the oil pipeline)… What they have accomplished in the past three months is simply astonishing.
- It’s High Noon in England over whether people can hunt or not. The hunters are going to hunt, whether the government allows it or not. This could be interesting, as it’s the hunters who have the guns, but it also brings up other issues. The anti-hunt crusade in England is driven, at least in part, by class-warfare. Also, it may be the first time in quite a while that someone in England has stood up and asserted that rights are inalienable, rather than democratically decided. [instapundit]
- It’s interesting how the results of The Hitler Test have changed this year. I’m pretty sure many people I know would prefer candidate B from the descriptions given. [endwar]
- In Fables of the Reconstruction it says that Bush isn’t really favoring Halliburton and Bechtel.
So where’s that integrity? I mean if you’re going to knock George W. Bush, there’s plenty to attack: the trampling of civil liberties under the USA-PATRIOT act, new spending programs that make FDR and Hillary Clinton look conservative, or his insistence on legislating morals for the entire country, but just making stuff up rankles. [instapundit]…The conclusion of the [Center for Public Integrity] report, Windfalls of War, is that a clear quid pro quo exists between government procurement and campaign contributions to George W. Bush…
There’s just one problem: The CPI has no evidence to support its allegations.
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Running the numbers, the good news for the Center for Public Integrity is that there is indeed a positive correlation between contributions and contracts. The bad news is, the correlation coefficient turns out to be 0.192 and not statistically significant. To understand how weak those numbers are, go to this Web site and move your cursor to 0.2. An old joke among statistically minded social scientists is that
the world is correlated at 0.3.