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The Washington Post ran a story on September 12th titles “Does the West Nile outbreak signal an epidemic of viral epidemics? Yes and no.” Somewhere in the process of writing there was a disconnect between the written content and the graphic that accompanies the piece. The graphic is mostly meaningless and uses questionable data. The […]
In the current political campaigns the issue of how are you doing now as compared to when Obama took office has become a recurring question. But how does one answer the question. By its very nature it is a very personal question. It does not ask is the nation better off? It does not ask […]
Much has been said about Romney’s record on creating jobs both as governor of the state of Massachusetts and while he was at Bain Capital. Just last week Romney said in one of his speeches: “While I was governor of Massachusetts we took the unemployment rate from 5.7 percent down to 4.6 percent.” But was […]