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...Mike Murphy's "Here Be Monsters" [Nov. 3]: To compare the ACORN incident, in which a few paid workers filled out bogus voter registrations (which were detected, reported and purged by ACORN) for financial gain, with the massive and well-documented efforts by the GOP to suppress and steal votes is beyond biased. Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 were called Democratic on the basis of exit polls before mysteriously ending up on the GOP side, costing the Democrats both elections. In the two cases, state officials at the helm of the electoral process were GOP loyalists, intimately involved...
...turned around and beat his chest…moments later flags flew. Unsportsmanlike conduct was the call, and Princeton was awarded 15 yards and the first down. The Tigers went on to score the game-winning touchdown three plays later to take the game, 31-28.To say the call was bogus would be an understatement. It was down right ridiculous.Saturday started out eerily similar to 2006. Although the Crimson was the heavy favorite to demolish the Tigers, not much went the team’s way through the first couple of quarters.After forcing a quick three-and-out, Harvard looked...
...following a little bit the news, to see what's been going on, and I think that now we've had a revelation that there are problems, and of a lot of things the general public needs to know. The general public needs to know that a lot of bogus claims have been made by the financial economics establishment, based on metrics that we know don't work, and a lot of portfolios are based on these underestimations of wild uncertainty. The coverage is adequate now - it's not adequate on a regular day when people just tell...
...blacklist people - guilt by association - you start to suspect George Orwell was right. And, incidentally, it doesn't have to be this way. Before 9/11, the FBI and CIA sifted through tens of thousands of terrorist leads every day. Ninety nine point nine per cent turn out to be bogus. The names never made it onto national master list and stayed in the raw files where they belonged. We missed 9/11, but not because the two San Diego hijackers were not on a list. We missed it because so many names float through Washington that their significance was missed...
...addition to the Nevada raid, voter registration drives in several other states have been scrutinized, while the group's campaigns to demand fair housing loan practices has opened it up to charges that it advocated risky subprime mortgages. On its website, ACORN has called the allegations of voter fraud "bogus" and "unfounded." The organization says it works with authorities and identifies all the fraudulent forms that it can, and that the campaign against its registration drives is a ploy to "disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate...