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The November Election and the Iran and Ukraine Wars
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- By Mike Scruggs
Including Reports on Conditions and Leadership in Ukraine and Russia
Rich Baris is Director of the Big Data Poll. He is pro-Trump, and Trump is a frequent client. He has the earned reputation of best predicting the Trump vote in State, Congressional District, and National votes. His Big Data Poll is much more detailed than most polls and shows crucial demographic and perceived candidate weaknesses, strengths, and other significant political and social data that allow critical analysis, clarified issues, and sharpened communication and campaign strategy.
Information Theory and DNA
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
DNA is widely known as the code of life. Consisting of four nucleotides that form a form of digital code that contains all the instructions to make and run a particular Organism. A typical genome for complex organisms such as humans can have billions of bits of information. This represents a problem not only for a naturalistic origin of life, but the entire idea of universal common descent as well. Information theory focuses primarily on the transmission and reception of information, but there are also matters of the content.
The number one problem with regard to DNA and information theory is that all known information coding systems, as well as complex, specific Information comes from only one source, and that is an intelligent mind. This is a huge problem for any ideas of a naturalistic origin and progression of life.
Lincoln’s Views on Slavery, Race, and National Unity 1858
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate August 21, 1858, Ottawa, Illinois
Most Americans know only a politically polished image of Abraham Lincoln. In fact, this shallow and overly-liberalized ideological image has become near mandatory in today’s 1984ish academic and media straight-jacket. Yet the real Lincoln was not shallow, and his debates and writings often demonstrate broad understanding of and comprehensive analysis of issues. Moreover, his ability to debate and communicate was formidable. However, his words and thinking often differed sharply from modern liberal ideology. Much of this can be seen from excerpted quotes from Roy P. Basler’s 1946 collection, Abrham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings. The quotes in this article can be found on pages 443-447. On June16, 1858, Lincoln had just received the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for US Senate. The August 21, 1858, Lincoln-Douglas debate in Ottawa, Illinois, was the first of seven that ran through October 1858. The debates were related to the Illinois Legislature choosing a Federal Senator. Steven Douglas was the Democrat incumbent, first elected in 1847. In 1913, the 17th US Amendment to the US Constitution changed the method of election to popular vote in each state.
Why Post-Flood Diversification of Animals Was Not Hyper-Evolution
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
The accusation of “hyper‑evolution” usually comes from critics who assume that creationists must invoke extremely fast, mutation‑driven, upward evolution to explain the diversity of animals after the Flood. But the actual creationist model is fundamentally different. Post‑Flood diversification in a young‑earth framework is not “hyper‑evolution” because it does not require the large‑scale, upward, novel‑information‑generating processes that evolutionary theory claims. Instead, it relies on pre‑existing genetic diversity, environmental sorting, founder effects, hybridization, and normal speciation mechanisms, all of which are well‑documented and do not require molecules‑to‑man evolution.
Reasons Why Someone May Reject a Particular Theory Promoted as Science
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
Creationists are frequently attacked for not accepting not just universal common descent evolution but the entire Big Bang-to-man story. Claims like anti-science, science denier, and insults to your intelligence and education, if you even question this atheistic view of origins. Daring to openly challenge it as a scientist has been demonstrated to be dangerous to one's career. Any legitimate scientific theory is going to thrive, taking on any opposition. Also, being able to raise questions about a legitimate theory can only help make it better if it's correct. All these common criticisms that you see fail to recognize the fact that there are some legitimate reasons why someone may reject a particular theory without rejecting science as a whole.
Correcting Widespread Misconceptions about the Vietnam War
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- By Mike Scruggs
Part 3 of 3—1969 to 1975 and Beyond
In 1946, following Japanese occupation of Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) during World War II, Vietnamese Communists ( the Viet Minh) began their revolutionary struggle to deny the French rule of their former colony. The French suffered an embarrassing defeat by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. President Eisenhower supported rescuing the French situation at Dien Bien Phu by using CIA transport aircraft, manned by former Army Air Corp pilots, to drop supplies and Foreign Legion paratroopers to assist French forces. The 1954 Geneva Accords split Norh and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel. The French Parliament having abandoned Indochina on July 20, 1954, the Geneva Accords shifted primary responsibility for keeping South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos free of North Vietnamese Communist aggression to the United States. By 1959, Moscow was directly involved in plans for North Vietnamese “liberation” of South Vietnam and ultimately Cambodia and Laos. They had already infiltrated about 10,000 armed insurgents into South Vietnam by 1962. Following a misguided JFK directed regime change removing South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem on November 1-2, 1963, resulting in Ngo’s assassination by a junta faction, the South Vietnamese Government and Army were in chaos for two years. Taking advantage of this, more than 240,000 North Vietnamese troops had invaded South Vietnam by 1967. The VC tripled from 10,000 to 30,000 plus.
Correcting Widespread Misconceptions about the Vietnam War
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Dien Bien Phu to Tet to Soviet Financing of US Antiwar Movement - Part 2 of 3
Part 1 of 3 of this short series on the Vietnam War began with some initial facts about US involvement following the French Parliament decision to withdraw from Indochina—Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia—on July 20, 1954. Part 1 also contained a short summary of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Tet Holiday offensive in early 1968. The1968 Tet offensive was one of the largest and most significant but most misunderstood events of the Vietnam War. That misunderstanding has unfortunately been perpetuated and further distorted by media and academia. Part 2 will therefore start with greater elaboration and detail on the background of US involvement, which is also widely misunderstood, and the Tet Offensive.
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