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Social capital explains why conservatives are happier than liberals: study
Those with a more conservative political orientation are happier because they have greater access to social capital, according to research published last month in Social Psychological and Personality Science. In a study of 925 undergraduate students, University of Queensland psychologist Jolanda Jetten and her colleagues found that conservatives tended to…
GOP Rep. falsely claims ‘revenues’ had ‘nothing’ to do with U.S. downgrade
Rep. Allen West (R-FL), a favorite among tea party Republicans, insisted Monday during an appearance on the conservative Fox News Channel that a refusal to increase government revenues through taxes had “nothing” to do with Standard & Poor’s dropping America’s credit rating last week. Unfortunately for West, that’s patently false,…
Conservatives praise Obama’s speech on Tucson shootings
The tragic shootings of a Democratic congresswoman and nineteen others Saturday did little to ease the vitriol in the national dialogue, but President Barack Obama’s speech saw liberals and conservatives converge with praise. In a televised memorial address Wednesday night at the University of Arizona, the president called for national…
Everyone’s tape is a little red
Ezra points to a piece by Dean Baker in the Boston Review that refutes the myth that conservatives are anti-regulation and liberals are pro-regulation. I enjoy people who try to take wingnut bullshit in good faith and carefully dismantle it, because I don’t have the patience for it. In general,…
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