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Billionaire Soros takes on Bush George Soros, one of the world’s richest men, has given away nearly $5 billion to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a new project: defeating President Bush.

“America, under Bush, is a danger to the world,” Soros said. Then he smiled: “And I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.”

Oh and apparently MoveOn.org is a "an unregulated, under-the-radar-screen, shadowy, soft-money group ."

sacbee.com -- Politics -- Candidate Bill Wyatt doing his best to shake up the norm

Cheney's Long Path to War
The Hard Sell: He sifted intel. He brooded about threats. And he wanted Saddam gone. The inside story of how Vice President Cheney bought into shady assumptions and helped persuade a nation to invade Iraq

By Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas
NEWSWEEK

Glad to see this guy getting knocked on his ass; guns are good for two things homicide and suicide, a few highly paranoid people have them for protection--I still claim anyone that paranoid probably shouldn't be trusted with weapon to begin with.

Double Barreled Double Standards: "For years, John Lott has provided a vital scholarly basis to the pro-gun movement. But now his research and his integrity are drawing heavy fire. "

"Still, economists like Stanford's John Donohue and Georgetown's Jens Ludwig say that when first published in 1997, Lott's work was novel and even cutting edge. But the intervening years -- and increased scholarly scrutiny -- have not been kind to the 'More Guns, Less Crime' idea. In fact, social scientists have turned away from the thesis even as Lott has stuck by his original conclusions. As a result, to maintain his argument Lott has had to go to considerable lengths, as demonstrated by a recent brouhaha over a massive critique of his work in the Stanford Law Review.

The Stanford Law Review critique, authored by Yale's Ayres and Stanford's Donohue, analyzed more recent crime statistics, extending Lott's original 1977-1992 crime dataset to include data through the late 1990s. As it turned out, after 1992, partly due to the end of the 1980s' crack cocaine-related crime wave, crime rates dropped dramatically in states with large urban centers, many of which had not passed right to carry laws. This fact proves highly inconvenient to the 'More Guns, Less Crime' argument. After testing Lott and Mustard's analysis with more years of data and different econometric tweakings, Donohue and Ayres conclude, 'No longer can any plausible case be made on statistical grounds that shall-issue laws are likely to reduce crime for all or even most states'; their analysis even suggested such laws might increase violent crime. "

The Village Voice: Features: Make Robots Not War by Erik Baard: "As American warfare has shifted from draftees to drones, science and the military in the United States have become inseparable. But some scientists are refusing to let their robots grow up to be killers. "