The complaint comes from the difference in results between Rasmussenand other national pollsters, such as Gallup. However, they use twodifferent sampling techniques: Rasmussen polls likely voters, while Gallup and others poll adultsuntil the final few weeks before an election. The former is much morepredictive for elections, while polling a general population of adultsis the least predictive sampling technique. And thatdifference gives Rasmussen an advantage that has already been seen thisyear. Rasmussen first detected the erosion of support for Obama andObamaCare in late June, an erosion that other pollsters corroborated inthe fall as discontent spread from the politically aware to the generalpopulation.

The Value of Party Weighting for a Tracking Poll
Rasmussen Reports does weight our sample to a set of partisan targetsand bases those targets on surveys conducted in preceding months.Entering the month of June, our targets for the month were set so thatthe sample would include 9.44% more Democrats than Republicans. At theend of the month, a review of the data showed that if we had not usedthe party weights, the Democrats would have had a 9.37% advantage overthe GOP. The bottom line is that—over the course of a full month—ourresults would have been the same with or without party weighting.
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Good representation of how much US spends on scientific research:
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National oceanic and atmospheric administration $4.1 bln : это что на изучение глобал ворминга?

Defense research and development -$11 blln,
Acorn -$6 bln.
Puts Obama priorities in perspective:-|

From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA)'s website: "From daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce, NOAA’s products and services support economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America’s gross domestic product. NOAA’s dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision makers with reliable information they need when they need it."

What do you think about this article?
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Steven Malanga
The Beholden State

How public-sector unions broke California
Man, they are powerful, and the sheeple who keep electing Democrats in California are enabling the endless cycle of corruption.

Well, NASA's plan is interesting.
What I like: privatization of low-orbit flights (now it's like if govt would have owned an airline), possibility of privatization of human orbital delivery, increasing NASA's science budget and budget for robotic exploration. The last two things are what NASA does very well -- and with very limited funds.
What I don't like: cancellation of the base on the Moon and continuing funding of that bucket in space called ISS.
What do you think about that?

According to NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, President Obama has asked NASA to "find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries," in a push to make the agency a tool of international diplomacy.
The Orlando Sentinel reports:“In addition to the nations that most of you usually hear about when you think about the International Space Station, we now have expanded our efforts to reach out to non-traditional partners,” said Bolden, speaking to a lecture hall of young engineering students.
Specifically, he talked about connecting with countries that do not have an established space program and helping them conduct science missions. He mentioned new opportunities with Indonesia, including an educational program that examines global climate change.

Canceling the Constellation program already threatens to put the U.S. behind countries like China and Russia. When did Kennedy's once undeterred vision of American space exploration transform into Obama's plan for an international science "welfare" program? When did NASA become a tool of diplomacy and an extended arm of the EPA?