More random news...

Here is a funny radio segment from a South African morning radio program, as they call the (fictitious) answering service at the Embassy of Zimbabwe. (from Chris Blattman's Blog)

Here is an analysis of votes made by Senators Clinton and Obama in the US Senate: both are left-of-center, almost identical, and mainstream for the democratic party. (thanks to Kids Prefer Cheese)

Class Notes -- Territorial Threat and the Democratic Peace

Here are today's notes.

Cheating in the Russian Elections

Here is a link to an analysis of possible Russian election fraud. Interesting analysis and interesting ramifications, if true...

Class Notes -- Domestic level effects of international conflct

Here are notes for today's class.

Interesting study on prejudice

Here is a post on how to discover prejudice in polling responses.

Project #2

Here is the description of Project #2.

UPDATE: Here is the .pdf copy of the project instructions. And of course, here is the link to Adobe Reader.