President Obama’s approval ratings have gone up since he was reelected earlier this month, says Micah Cohen, who does polling analysis alongside Nate Silver at the New York Times‘ FiveThirtyEight blog. But compared to previous White House winners, Obama’s bounce has been a little lackluster. A comparison of the last Gallup poll conducted before each […]

#MittStalk2012 continues as Mitt & Ann stop to allow college students to take a picture of them as the almost-First Couple were leaving Limone Pizzeria in Salt Lake City, Utah. Apparently they looked like they enjoyed their meal and who can blame them. The same day a reviewer on UrbanSpoon gave the restaurant a great review: “Good […]

No, this isn’t from the Onion. Today North Korea’s Central News Agency reported that archaeologists from “the History Institute of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Academy of Social Sciences” have discovered a lair that belonged to a famous unicorn from the Middle Ages. The North Korean news reported that “a rectangular rock carved with words […]

Romney’s chief campaign strategist Stuart Stevens, who has kept his head low since his campaign’s loss on November 6, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post today: “Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight.” Nobody liked Romney except voters. What began in a small field in New Hampshire grew into a national movement. It wasn’t our […]

In a post-election statement whose purpose seemed to be to explain why Gallup was wrong about the election outcome, Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport included what can only be interpreted as a dig at the New York Times‘ Nate Silver and predicted analyses like Silver’s could result in less polling in future cycles: It’s not easy nor […]

Follow Trevor on Twitter! @jtantley [Update: So, now that the election is over, I was wrong about three of the eleven swing-states: Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Not super good!] Four days out from election day, and without any more predictable game-changers that could shake-up the race, I’m ready to post my final predictions for the […]

by Christopher C. Smith The United States of America is in dire financial straits. Faced with an enormous deficit, stagnating revenues, and runaway Medicare costs, the nation’s been locked in mortal combat over whether to further damage the economy by raising taxes, compromise our strategic position by cutting defense, or throw the poor and the […]

Normally when BYU students throw fits about something, I’m all over it. But frankly I just missed this one. I don’t know what happened. Maybe I was distracted by things going on in the world that are actually worth caring about. But who knows. Anyway, below I’ll offer a brief chronology of the world-rocking protests […]

Just like millions of other Americans, I remember in very specific detail where I was when I learned about the attacks of 9/11. Similarly, remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I learned that Osama bin Laden had been killed.  I felt such a sense of accomplishment, pride and success when […]

In the past week, over 100 innocent children have been tortured or murdered by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In total, a recent report from the U.K. estimates that over 1,300 children have been killed by al-Assad’s forces since the war began. Rimas Qatayfan, ~8 years old, was killed when al-Assad forces intentionally shelled […]