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Fake Social Science, Part 2: Of Shoes and Shoats and Earmarks and Emperors and Kings

Wed May 9, 2012 7:30 AM EDT

Same drill as in the other articles, the cute little pictures link back to the original polls: Part 1 (aptly) is a catfish. Part 2 is red ink. And the link to Part 3 is (ta da) lima beans.

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politics, taxes, election-2012, federal-budget, baseline-budget, gummint-spending, federal-debt-republicans-democrats

Fake Social Science Looks at Gummint Spending, Part 3: Filling the Purse and Emptying the Bag

Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:15 AM EDT

By jfxgillis

Some people think government spending is too much, some think it's too little; almost no one thinks it's 'just right'. The core question becomes: Should we decrease spending/services or increase taxes/revenues? Fake Social Science hopes to address this question in a three part p …

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politics, obama, taxes, paul-ryan, income-tax, federal-budget, fake-soc-sci, transaction-tax, gummint-spending, alternate-federal-budgets

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Fake Social Science Looks at Gummint Spending: Part 1, Catfish and Lawn Mowing

Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:16 AM EDT

By jfxgillis

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politics, medicare, medicaid, federal-budget, department-of-defense, federal-spending, fake-soc-sci, pentagon-spending, gummint-spending, hillbilly-handfishin

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A Tribute to Chuck Colson

Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:48 PM EDT

By jazzman646

Chuck Colson, 80 years old, passed away Saturday. Many will remember Chuck for his part in Watergate. But Chuck should really be remembered for the work he did with prison inmates, many poor and many black. God, used Chuck Colson, to open a door for the Holy Spirit to come …

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us-news, inmates, watergate, redemption, chuck-colson, prison-fellowship

Trouble Brewing at the Institute for Fake Social Science

Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:15 AM EDT

By jfxgillis

These are terrible times in the world of Think Tanks. With the advent of Super PACs, rich folks who want to manipulate public opinion no longer have to launder their money through "education"- or "policy"-oriented think tanks. They can just do tens of millions of dollars of media …

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politics, gingrich, koch-brothers, cato-institute, fake-soc-sci, center-for-health-transformation, penn-state-board-of-trustees, pooh-bandaids

The Bad Politics of the Trayvon Martin Killing

Mon Apr 9, 2012 10:22 AM EDT

By jazzman646

One thing I always try to do is look at any racial issue fairly and objectively. Although, I am African-American, I don't automatically agree with other African Americans at times when an incident is classified as being racially motivated. Those who know me know I don't fo …

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us-news, racism, conservative, trayvon-martin, george-zimmerman, sanford-fl

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Other Half Fake Social Science Election Issues Poll

Mon Apr 9, 2012 6:50 AM EDT

By jfxgillis

The other half, not so quick, poll on election issues 2012:

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politics, obama, economy, election-2012, fake-soc-sci

Fake Social Science: To See or Not to See, That is the Question . . .

Mon Apr 2, 2012 7:00 AM EDT

By jfxgillis

.... That Fake Social Science is investigating this week. In the space of about 24 hours we saw four stories topping the news and politics sites that featured secret or supposed-to-be-secret meetings. First, infuriatingly no matter to whom you're more sympathetic, the Trayvon Mar …

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scotus, politics, gingrich, obama, putin, romney, media-frenzy, election-2012, medvedev, behind-closed-doors

Fake Social Science Presents the Super-Duper Leave-Nothing-Out Sports Poll

Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:00 AM EDT

By jfxgillis

Dedicated to Mrs. Gillis and our mutual friend Russ (who sat in Ebbets Field) So Fake Social Science is having its weekly pizza with its 80ish Mom. She's had some health problems with her vocal chords lately so sometimes I can't quite make out what she's saying. So we're c …

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sports, tiger-woods, tebow, peyton-manning, tim-tebow, march-madness, jeremy-lin, most-recent-article, fake-soc-sci, touchdown-jesus

The First Annual Putsch Poll™: Fake Social Science Goes Presidential!

Mon Mar 5, 2012 6:45 AM EST

By jfxgillis

Up until recently, Fake Social Science was suffering very low self-esteem. Nobody cared about us. Then we realized that nobody cared about Real Social Science either, so that made us feel a little better.

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politics, republicans, election-2012, chris-christie, most-recent-article, republican-nomination, fake-soc-sci

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