Author Archives: David Hume

Medical doctors are liberal?

Posted on April 6, 2010 by David Hume

Well, young doctors at least. I have a post analyzing the data over at Discover Blogs. Young doctors are inverted from the American population, with about twice as many self-identified liberals as conservatives. In fact, a plural majority are liberal!

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The unchurched president

Posted on March 30, 2010 by David Hume

Should Obama Attend Church?: Tonight NBC Nightly News aired a clip from Matt Lauer’s interview with President Obama, in which he asked the President why he has not chosen a church to attend. He was told that so doing would … Continue reading →

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David Frum’s unstable equilibrium

Posted on March 25, 2010 by David Hume

It looks like David Frum has been purged from the conservative mainstream. I can’t but help find this ironic insofar as Frum was the drawer of bright lines himself in years past. Additionally, though Frum is moderate on social issues, … Continue reading →

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Defending Ann Coulter as an American peculiarity

Posted on March 24, 2010 by David Hume

At ScienceBlogs I defend free speech as an American cultural peculiarity which should be defended, not a human universal right (it simply isn’t empirically): … Though seriously, I’m expressing a very cultural biased viewpoint here, an American one, and I’m … Continue reading →

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What happened to The Next Right?

Posted on March 23, 2010 by David Hume

I’ve been out-of-country for the past week or so. So to try and get conservative perspectives on the recent legislative events I’ve checked in on the usual suspects, National Review, Frum Forum, RedState and The Next Right. But it seems … Continue reading →

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Numbers in lieu of wisdom

Posted on March 21, 2010 by David Hume

I’m a big critic of the reliance on impressionistic data often peddled by the media. In classic high school essay form generally it’s rather clear that there’s a hypothesis, and that the journalist just goes looking for individuals who will … Continue reading →

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Alan Simpson

Posted on March 17, 2010 by David Hume

Profile here. When I was a teenage politics junkie Simpson was one of my favorites because he did genuinely seem candid. When he predicted that the Florida recount battle would go all the way to the Supreme Court very early … Continue reading →

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It must come back into balance…eventually

Posted on March 13, 2010 by David Hume

Conservatives in Texas won a curriculum change battle. But another event also occurred which was of note: The Religious Right suffered a surprise setback in Texas when incumbent Don McLeroy—a creationist and critic of church-state separation—narrowly lost his re-election bid … Continue reading →

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Contingencies on Mitt Romney

Posted on March 11, 2010 by David Hume

A few weeks ago I posted some on Mitt Romney. Since then his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness has come out. I do not think it bodes well that David Frum, who I suspect is close to … Continue reading →

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Hostility to anti-religion by demographic

Posted on March 5, 2010 by David Hume

A question: do you have polling data that examines distrust of atheists in public office according to gender/race/religion (e.g. exploring whether men or women are more likely to trust an atheist president)? I couldn’t find cross-tabs, but pollster.com does have … Continue reading →

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