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Although many students on campus view the Long-Johnson pair as a “joke ticket,” the candidates said they were serious about their efforts and offered a firm critique of the UC’s efficacy...
Conservative kvetchers usually have a more serious bogeyman in mind: voters using dead people’s names, campaign workers coercing or bribing people into voting for their man—that sort of thing. But their evidence is almost always mere innuendo. Consider The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, who leads a cottage industry of voter-fraud hyperventilators. The day before the election, Fund laughably tried to tie ACORN, that all-purpose conservative bugaboo, to anticipated wrong-doings in New Jersey: “Philly operatives associated in the past with ACORN may now be advising...
...powerful motivator than respect for rights. But the Democrats would clearly have the latter on their side as well, if they had the gall to bring the issue up. When the government takes a right away, or makes it harder to exercise, that’s a much more serious offense than an individual’s abuse of her prerogative. So, ignore conservatives’ crocodile tears over voter fraud; New Jersey may be home to money-laundering mayors and kidney-selling rabbis, but it’s not, you know, Afghanistan...
...detail some other harrowing encounters between airplanes and birds, though you note that most bird strikes don't cause serious damage. How concerned should the flying public be? Pick your worries in life. They will continue to happen, but it's very rare. This U.S. Airways flight swallowed a lot of geese. It's just not within our technological ability to design engines that can handle that...
...increase from 2008. Growing educational exchanges can only help relations, says Zhu Feng, a professor of international studies at Peking University. "I think it will be an indispensable parallel to economic cooperation and political cooperation," he says. "It's the right time for both sides to take a more serious look at each other. Part of that is for ordinary people to understand what the U.S. is and what China...