Archive for August, 2008

McCain Puts Country Second

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

John McCain’s nomination of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate is a mind-blowingly cynical choice in the light of his criticism of Barak Obama as not yet ready to assume the highest office. Michael Cohen says it well in a posting today at democracyarsenal.org

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It Ain’t No Repeated Addition Ain’t It?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

I don’t hold back from challenging the way mathematics is taught in schools myself, but Keith Devlin’s recent MAAonline column is off base and out of line.

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