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Monthly Archives: November 2008
ERROR! ERROR!
I had written on these pages (which I will correct as soon as I finish this) that the State of Hawaii had a law that allows Hawaiian residents to register infants born out of state. I cited the law, which … Continue reading
Posted in Obama Citizenship Denial, Politics
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The “Smoking Grandmother”
There are three recordings relating to Barack Obama’s birth on the Internet. Two regard his paternal grandmother in Kenya and one involves the Kenyan Ambassador to the United States. The first grandmother tape is on YouTube. Before you visit the … Continue reading
OCD and Math Education
I think the persistence of Obama Citizenship Denial (OCD) may be related to the poor state of mathematics education in this country. I do not refer to higher mathematics, or arithmetic, but to the more basic skill of counting. Let … Continue reading
Posted in Obama Citizenship Denial, Politics
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Dr. Ron Polarik’s analysis of Barack Obama’s birth certificate
“Ron Polarik” (not a real name?) published an analysis of the Barack Obama birth certificate and concludes that it is a forgery. (That link has stopped working). [Since I wrote the following article, I ran across a scientific critique of … Continue reading
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Poisoning the Well
Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to … Continue reading
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Obama Citizenship Denial (OCD)
I have written exhaustively about Obama Citizenship Denial (OCD) in another forum and under another name. I want to put a few summary thoughts here. Some links have been added in comments. I don’t pay much attention to conspiracy theories. … Continue reading
Critical Thinking
Some people are not very good at math, and some aren’t very good at drawing, and some aren’t very good at critical thinking. You can’t expect everybody to be good at everything. Or as Lincoln said: “you can fool some … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Reports, General
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