arithmetic

Since we all know that mathematics is simply a social construction, it should come as no surprise that Barack Obama has a, well, unique arithmetic system.

First, in Obama math, there are 57 states, as we already knew.

You don't hear the left gloat over Dubya's low approval numbers here lately because the Democrat-led Congressional approval rating now stands at 9%. Yes, that's "9," as in "nine." One less than "ten" (if my public education arithmetic is correct).

A story today on education at the paperless City Paper leads by example with some creative arithmetic. Reporter Amy Griffith’s account of Tuesday’s public hearing on the proposed schools rezoning plan includes this:

A little arithmetic shows that Obama leads Clinton by 203 delegates as of this morning. She has 1781 and he has 1984 with 2025 needed to win, until things change tomorrow after the rules committee meeting, which I expect.

There are several scenarios, none of which look favorable to Hillary Clinton. She keeps claiming this is a close race but it's not anymore. Obama has run a masterful campaign,

The McLaughlin Group weighs in on the significance of Hillary's West Virginia blowout (67-26), her imminent finish with the lead in the popular vote, and signs of Obama's political erosion: The caucus states inflate Obama's strength. . The bizarre arithmetic is skewing the view of who is ahead.

It is a simple matter of arithmetic that change may be costly to the man who has something; it cannot be so to the man who has nothing. There is always, accordingly, a high correlation between conservatism and personal well-being.

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With somewhere around 7 Billion people on this planet, the arithmetic would seem to say that only 4 million of them have a birthday in the Gregorian calendar's today.

If today, Feb. 29, is your birthday you're special.

Why we have leap year and leap day is because things just don't work out evenly in the way our solar system works and the way we keep calendars. You could also say it's the

Martin Kennedy, of the TennEconomics blog, posts briefly about Rep. Beth Harwell’s filing of a “Tim Tebow Law.” As a UT alum, I think she could have left Tebow’s name off of the bill, but as Kennedy writes:

"Campfield's latest bill was sparked by the National Education Association's annual meeting, where there was a call for support of understanding diversity in sexual orientation."

"'I don't think our schools have reading, writing and arithmetic down enough to start teaching about transgenderism,' Campfield said."

Transgenderism? Is this a word? Neither my Spellcheck nor my Webster's recognizes it. Anyway, have fun with this one: