Word: errors
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...example, might pick the response of radio's Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who, when asked about her statement that gays and lesbians represent "a biological error," said, "We have vaginas and penises." I could not agree more...
...This year's 35-day affair didn't so much elect a president as pick one out of a hat. A cleanly split Florida populace faced up to a systemic margin of error that exceeded its margin of preference. That resulted in a statistical tie, finally resolved by the armies of political henchmen - pols, pundits, judges and lawyers - who traditionally are required to stand down for this one day of the year. And everybody walked away with a bad taste in their mouth...
...course, democracy isn't perfect and life isn't fair, not even on Election Day. But we can at least whittle down our margin of error - and increase our cushion of trust - to modern standards. And these days, what machine do we trust the most? The friendly neighborhood...
Hussein's most egregious error, however, is his inflammatory assertion that American support for Israel stems from a racist understanding of Middle East ethnicity that "dehumanizes" the Palestinian people. This false accusation is an insult to all of us who have suffered from racism and other forms of ethnic and religious hatred in our nation. Americans support Israel for a number of different reasons. I suspect, however, that primary among them is the fact that despite incredible overtures for peace by Israel, the Palestinians have responded with orchestrated and fatal terror attacks on Israeli citizens and diplomatic statements that have...
...didn't say that, like Barry Goldwater, he knows he's right. The recount may yet go forward in a race in which the margin of error has vastly exceeded the razor-thin margin of victory. Lieberman faults the media as much as George W. Bush's spin machine for the hole his side finds itself in. And he has a point. At first I thought the media's desire to come to a conclusion whether or not they came to the truth was partly the result of dirty laundry, unrefundable airline tickets and weekends spent doubled up in scarce...