Liberals Tolerate Ambiguity and Conflict… Better Than Conservatives

11Sep07

Saving this one for later commenting. An article in LA Times claims that scientists found that self-confessed liberals have a better tolerance for ambiguity and conflict than conservatives. In a simple experiment reported todayin the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how […]

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Nuclear North Korea

11Oct06

I remember back in the debates between Bush and Kerry when Kerry was first asked what was the “the single most serious threat to the national security to the United States”. He replied: Nuclear proliferation. Nuclear proliferation. There’s some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Union and Russia. At the rate […]

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