Social sensitivity trumps IQ in group intelligence

Polls: GOP Ahead in Three Dem-Held Senate Seats
McClatchy-Marist surveys find among Likely Voters -- Buck leads Incumbent Bennet 50-42% in Colorado -- Toomey 9 points ahead of Sestak in Pennsylvania -- Johnson leads Feingold 52-45 in Wisconsin Conducted Sept. 26-28, error margin 3.5 points Plus: Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV survey finds Giannoulias 38, Kirk 36 in Illinois Senate.

Photo Stream from One Nation
Tens of thousands of union members from a dozen or more States are taking part in today’s One Nation events in Washington, D.C. Beginning with pre-dawn bus trips from places like Philadelphia and New York through closing events later this afternoon, we’ll post photos here as they come in. Also check out photos on Twitter at: https://www.Twitter.com/aflcio In Philadelphia, where 250 AFSCME members gathered before getting on buses to D.C., Philadelphia City Councilwoman Jannie...

How the GOP Gets to 10 Without Delaware
The GOP’s Senate prospects are looking up. New polling shows Republicans with solid leads inColorado, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Add to thoseIndiana, Arkansas,and North Dakota, which look like they’re in the bag for the GOP. West Virginia is now looking very gettable for the GOP as well. That’s seven. The Senate majority flips if the GOPsnags three more from among the next batch of most-viable pickups: Illinois, Nevada, Washington, Connecticut, and California....

Israeli Jews celebrate Palestinian Oktoberfest
TAYBEH, West Bank -   This Palestinian village celebrates Oktoberfest each year even though it's a tiny Christian enclave in a Muslim-majority area, under Israeli occupation. But on Saturday, Israeli Jews were among those sipping the signature, honey-colored Palestinian Beer, providing an unlikely sight after years of forced separation at the height of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Held in the tiny Christian village of Taybeh — the name of the village, and the Beer, means...

Wellesley professor unearths a horror: Syphilis experiments in Guatemala
Picking through musty files in a Pennsylvania archive, a Wellesley College Professor made a heart-stopping discovery: US government scientists in the 1940s deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments conducted without the subjects’ permission. Medical historian Susan M. Reverby happened upon the documents four or five years ago while researching the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study and later shared her findings with US government officials. The...

Teachers is smart
Okay, so it appears I may have overestimated the average intelligence of teachers when I calculated it at around 90 IQ.  Mea culpa.  Now, here's the damning quote: "Every other Student in class accepted my lesson without argument...."   Keep in mind that's almost surely true of your public-schooled Children too, even when they are being taught that black is white and kilometers are longer than miles.

Rick Sanchez Fired From CNN; Collective IQ of the MSM Increases Dramatically
his alleged apologies . The last straw came this week when, rubbed raw by schoolyard teasing that wouldn’t have fashed a kindergartner, Sanchez lashed out with a ridiculous diatribe that teetered drunkenly on the edge of Anti-Semitism. CNN reacted by

Behar & Maher Fret 'Tragedy' That Jimmy Carter 'Vilified,' IQ Test to Stop O'Donnell, Tax Hike 'Heals the Economy'
Appearing as a guest on Tuesdays Joy Behar Show on HLN, comedian Bill Maher praised Jimmy Carter as "a better proponent of what Democrats actually believed in," and asserted that it was "fantastic" when Carter bragged about never taking Military action against anyone during his tenure, as the HBO host complained about the modern day Democratic party. Maher: "He was a better proponent of what Democrats actually believed in. He was saying the other day, I heard him on...

Rendell: 'Tepid' Support Good Enough for Democrats
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell had a piece of advice Sunday for Democratic Strategists trying to lure the Liberal Base out to the polls -- voters don't have to like the party's Candidates, they just have to vote for them. 

Toomey Well Ahead in Pennsylvania
A new McClatchy-Marist Poll in Pennsylvania shows Pat Toomey (R) with a solid lead over Rep. Joe Sestak (D) in the U.S. Senate race, 51% to 42%.

3 polls, 3 solid flips: PA, CO, WI
Posted by Clyde Middleton on Oct 2 2010 Filed under Newsstand , Politics . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry The numbers have reached 50. Goodbye, Incumbent dems : Republicans are positioned to take Senate seats away from Democrats in three Battleground states in widely different regions of the country, according to new McClatchy-Marist polls in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In Colorado,...

Land Value Tax
This isn’t really apropos of anything, but is there any reason at all to think it makes sense to tax property values rather than land? I wasted an hour or so this morning googling and reading about the idea of a land-value tax and the case for it seems (a) extremely compelling and (b) to be made primarily by cranks. So what gives here? How come the Economists of America aren’t uniting in insistence that we make the switch? To lay the case out simply, the problem with taxes from...

Getting Re-Elected Is More Important Than Lives Of Our Troops
(I first took Congressman Kanjorski to task about these remarks in 2008. Now that my daughter is a United States Marine I want this Fraud voted out of office even more.) The man in the video below is Pennsylvania 11th District Congressman Paul Kanjorski. During his 25 years as a Congressman, Paul Kanjorski has promoted himself as

Federal Welfare System Not Helping The New Poor In Economic Crisis
In addition to being severely underfunded during this Crisis, the welfare programs simply aren't set up to help the formerly-middle Class people who are trying to get into the system . For instance, here in Pennsylvania, someone I know was turned down because his bank statement showed transfers from PayPal into his checking account, and they counted that as monthly income. He tried to explain that he'd sold everything he had left on eBay, and there was nothing left to sell, but the caseworker...

US Government Apologizes For 1940s Experiments Infecting Hundreds Of Guatamalans With STDs
Picking through musty files in a Pennsylvania archive, a Wellesley College Professor made a heart-stopping discovery: US government scientists in the 1940s deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments conducted without the subjects permission. Medical historian Susan M. Reverby happened upon the documents four or five years ago while researching the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study and later shared her findings with US government officials....

With Rahm gone, a change in tone at 1600 Pennsylvania
Reshaping the tone and tenor of the White House, President Barack Obama on Friday replaced the colorful and caustic Rahm Emanuel with the private Pete Rouse as his Chief of Staff, shifting to a new phase of his presidency with a drastically different aide as trusted gatekeeper. Emanuel’s decision to quit the White House and run for Chicago mayor had been so well known that even Obama mocked the lack of suspense. But it still felt like the most important transition to date for the...

GOP Set to Gain Pennsylvania House Seats
Philadelphia, Pa. —If Republicans are going to pick up at least the 38 Democratic-held seats they need to win control of the U.S. House and polls are to be trusted, then signs are strong that a good chunk of those seats will come from Pennsylvania. A review of just-completed polls shows that in six Pennsylvania U.S. House districts now in Democratic hands, Republican Candidates are in the lead. The GOP advantages are in four districts held by Democratic Incumbents first elected in either...

Fall in with the Ghosts of Gettysburg candlelight tours
In this autumn season of fiery days and smoky nights, the mind can easily drift to thoughts of ghosts and the afterlife. An old cemetery at dusk, its dying leaves swirling around crumbling gravestones, can be more tempting a place to visit than to avoid. If you go Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Tour » Where: 217 Baltimore St.; Gettysburg, Pa. » Distance: 78 miles from D.C. » More Information: 717-337-0445, ghostsofgettysburg.com But what if that cemetery was an entire...

Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin declines to endorse Rahm Emanuel for Chicago mayor
Politics may make strange bedfellows, but there has to be a courtship. Take the case of Rahm Emanuel, arguably the most powerful presidential aide in Washington, and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the assistant Majority Leader. Emanuel has made no secret of his desire to succeed Richard M. Daley as Mayor of Chicago, but the bandwagon is having a bumpy ride. On Sunday, Durbin politely -- but firmly -- refused to endorse Emanuel's bid. Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," Durbin was asked...

NFL Week 4 open thread
The Pittsburgh Steelers play their fourth and last game without their starting QB, Ben Roethlisberger, and to add to the drama, they take on their arch-rivals, the Baltimore Ravens. Not only have they gone 3-0, all three opponents that the Steelers have beat have winning records coming into this week — and the Steelers have done it with a passing game rated dead last in the NFL. They have the third-best rushing defense, though, as well as the third-best rushing game. The Ravens are...

For-profit colleges hit again in Senate hearings
Source: AP Last Updated: September 30. 2010 6:42PM For-profit colleges hit again in Senate hearings Eric Gorski / Associated Press A career adviser at a large for-profit college, testifying Thursday before a Senate committee, said her employer used "tricks and sleight of hand" to exaggerate job placement statistics given to prospective Students. The latest in a series of hearings scrutinizing for-profit Higher Education also produced the most intense partisan finger-pointing to date and new...

10/1: College Football in the Lone Star State
**Editors notein the interest of full disclosure, in addition to being part of the Marist Poll team, the author is also on the faculty of the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. Something strange is in the air. Its the final week of September in Texas. No one is asking, How bout them Cowboys? Theyre 1-2. Baseball Fans are talking about a Red October in Arlington since the Texas Rangers have clinched only their Third divisional championship in...

Pittsburgh Steelers News, schedule, players, stats
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Research effort a healthy step for the region
Collaboration is a powerful word for universities seeking research dollars. The Federal Government often demands it. Common sense dictates it. Pooling resources, where appropriate, can make good ideas even better. And collaboration is at the very core of an energy research project between the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW-Madison, Marquette University and the Milwaukee School of Engineering. This year-old cooperative could pay off with major Federal Funding. The first-of-its-kind...

Candidates get creative to build text-message list
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A sign near the toilet said: "Text FLUSH to Robin." Above the restroom sink was another suggestion: "Text WASH to Robin." Was this some sort of potty-room prank? Or High-tech graffiti? Neither, actually. The Bathroom bulletins were part of a calculated Campaign strategy by Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Robin Carnahan to collect as many cell phone numbers as possible for a text-message database. In politics 2010, wireless phone numbers have become prized...