Iowa's congressional delegation will die in the last ditch for ethanol subsidies because ethanol subsidies are very popular with Iowa's voters, not because Big Agra cuts fat checks to Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley.Because, other things equal, public opinion swamps most competing determinants of policy, Mr Lessig's fixation on campaign finance seems a bit of a distraction.
Laws passed on this kind of basis deserve to be upended, and we hope Judge Tauro's equal-protection opinion, which, for now, applies only to Massachusetts, is upheld on appeal.
The 7-point scale was transformed, so that "strongly dislike" equalled "-3", a neutral opinion equalled "zero", and "strongly like" equalled "3".
This was calculated based on the total of five scores, where each definite opinion equaled 20%, each possible opinion equaled 10%, and each definitely not opinion equaled 0%.
Back in 1968 the Ford women, and their fight for equal pay, split opinion.
Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president for digital operations of The New York Times Company, said: "A pure free-for-all doesn't, in my opinion, equal good.
V. R. Devika, author of Tara: Unsung heroine describes her as a woman "treated like an equal and her opinion mattered as if she were one of the lieutenants".
This sort of authoritarian approach -- from Don Young to Scott Walker -- is what happens when knowledge -- the record of science, math and history -- no longer holds sway as the arbiter of truth that can be used to settle disputes between diverse interests, but has come to be regarded as simply another "way of knowing," on an equal footing with opinion.
Rose was destined to become a great bar stool argument in a sport that draws its lifeblood from the equation of one bloke's opinion equaling another's.
Kokoschka, of course, did go on to a long and illustrious career in painting, writing and humanitarian causes, although none of his later art, in my opinion, equaled these penetrating portraits.
