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POPSOn the Conservatives-Are-More-Generous Study Jim Lindgren has a measured discussion of the Arthur Brooks' book Who Really Cares and his own paper "Testing Social Dominance: Is Support for Capitalism and Opposition to Income Redistribution Driven by Racism and Intolerance?". One thing he says is that Brooks is using suspect data to show that conservatives give more than liberals. In the data Brooks uses (the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey) liberals have higher incomes than conservatives, which goes against every representative survey of Americans--most other surveys show conservatives earning more than liberals. On the whole, though, Lindgren likes Brooks' book and has his own paper which shows that conservatives are more likely to donate than liberals are (although Brooks' own analysis challenges this).
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POPSB'tselem: IDF soldiers may have executed wounded men This incident in Al- Yamun is not the first of its kind. In May 2005, B'Tselem released a report that examined four operations conducted in the previous year to arrest Palestinians wanted by Israeli forces. The report indicated that soldiers behaved in these operations as if they were conducting assassinations rather than arrest operations, in blatant violation of IHL. In two of the cases, Israeli forces had already "neutralized" a person defined as wanted, and subsequently shot him to death. In the first case, soldiers shot a man who had raised his arms in surrender. In the second case, soldiers killed a man who had been injured, and was lying unarmed on the ground. Via Electronic Intifada
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