The Economic Nationalist

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Frank J. Fleming writes,

If you go to Saudi Arabia, they may take your Bible. So, if you were planning on doing Bible studying in Saudi Arabia, you may have to change your plans.

I guess one solution is to bring two Bibles. Then when they take one Bible, you can be like, “No! Not my Bible! Whatever shall I read?” but you’ll secretly have another Bible. I guess that’s kind of like lying—which the Bible forbids—but then again they’re stealing your other Bible—something also forbidden by the Bible—and two wrongs make a right.

Another idea is to also bring a vial of holy water. Then, when one of them tries to take your Bible, you yell, “Get away from me, heathen Moslem!” and throw the vial of holy water in his face. Then he’ll scream and fall to floor as it burns away his skin. That’s because it was really sulfuric acid and not water at all, but they won’t know that. That’s always a funny trick.

Mr. Fleming’s book is sold here.

Several of the Republican presidential candidates seem to be hitting their campaign strides now. The weekend’s debate in Iowa showed it. This writer has no profound impressions to relate, but might nonetheless offer a few brief remarks.

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If right-wing economic nationalists take no other lesson away from this blog, they should take at least this by Mitch. His is a genuine voice of the old American, New Deal left. (more…)

National pollsters ask respondents not only questions like, “Do you approve of the job the president is doing?” but also qualifying, cross-correlating questions like, “For whom did you vote in the last presidential election?” The pollster already knows how many voted for whom in the last election, of course—election results are not subject to post facto revision by opinion polls!—but the pollster asks the question anyway because he wants to estimate the numbers of Election Day supporters who now disapprove of the president’s performance, etc. Such qualifying, cross-correlating questions are routine. Hence, imagine the pollster Gallup’s surprise in December 1963 when, in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination, two-thirds of respondents reported voting Kennedy! The real election of 1960 had in fact given Richard Nixon 49 percent of the vote.

As every American not living under the proverbial rock probably already knows, U.S. Army General David Petraeus is scheduled September 2007 to report to Congress on progress in Iraq.

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