From NewKindofPolitics.com

• Rasmussen Rundown 7.2.09
  [It's been a while. Think of June as my Lost Month] Rasmussen has some unpleasant news for President Obama as relates to healthcare, climate change, and the economy: Thirty-three% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-five percent (35%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama […]
• Larry Summers and “Innate Differencesâ€�
  In 2005 Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, was assailed for suggesting that “innate differences” between men and women may account for the lack of female professors in the hard sciences. Several attendees walked out of his speech, deeply offended. One woman, an MIT biologist, said if she hadn’t, she would have “passed out or […]
• Quick Hits 6.4.09
  Sotomayor: In 1994 the “wise woman” wasn’t necessarily a Latina Apparently during a speech in 1994 Supeme Court nomine Sonia Sotomayor made a statement almost identical to the one from 2001: “I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experience would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion,” she said in the […]
• Rasmussen: The People Love the Fair Tax
  Rasmussen released a poll on Friday showing 68% opposition to a national sales tax. That isn’t the least bit surprising. Democrats, and even a good number of Republicans, have invested time over the last few years maligning the concept in the form of the Fair Tax. Now they know their strategy worked. Except it didn’t. While [...] […]