Who is poor in America? This is not an easy question to answer, and the Obama administration would make it harder. It's hard because there's no conclusive definition of poverty. Low income matters, though how low is unclear. Poverty is also a mindset that fosters self-defeating behavior -- bad work habits, family breakdown, out-of-wedlock births and addictions. Finally, poverty results from lousy luck: accidents, job losses, disability. Despite poverty's messiness, we've tended to measure progress against it by a single statistic, the federal poverty line. It was originally designed in the early 1960s by Mollie Orshansky, an analyst at the Social Security Administration, and became part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. She took the Agriculture Department's estimated cost f...
In your recent editorial "Cuccinelli vs. science" (July 18), you make two statements that are at best misleading and one that is scientifically worthless. To argue that the last six months are "the hottest on record" is meaningless in the analysis of the longterm instrumental temperature record. You also state, "the science is clear and unequivocal: The globe is warming, and that warming is most likely caused by human activity.
This study examined the factor structure of the 22-item Customer Orientation (Organizational Climate) scale developed by Kelley (1992). The scale was administered in a sample of Australian public sector service organization employees (n = 259). Exploratory factor analysis provided evidence that the scale is multidimensional, although a number of items in the 22-item scale cross-loaded on two factors. Removal of eight items resulted in a 14-item two-factor scale with all items loading cleanly on a single factor. The first factor related to aspects of competence which allow an employee to perform at a satisfactory level, while the second factor concerned elements of the environment in which the service is performed. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the two-factor structure. Reliabil...
WASHINGTON - Lately, a handful of new discoveries make it seem more likely that we are not alone - that there is life somewhere else in the universe. In recent days, scientists have reported there are three times as many stars as they previously thought. Other researchers discovered a microbe can live on arsenic, expanding our understanding of how life can thrive in the harshest environments. And this year, astronomers for the first time said they'd found a potentially habitable planet.
It has become harder than ever for such spokesmen to maintain this façade, however, with the appearance of The Legacy of Jihad (Prometheus Books), a new compendium of documents relating to the doctrine and history of jihad. Edited by Dr. [Andrew G. Bostom], this massive volume contains a wealth of material from Islamic texts and Muslim jurists, much of which has never before appeared in English, as well as accounts of brutal jihad conquests from all over the globe.
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