Republican Whip Eric Cantor does the math, and says Democrats are eight votes short: 38 Democrats are needed to defeat a government take-over of health care.  ·         Of the original 37 Democrat NO votes, 4 have publicly switched ...

Japan and its alarm clocks. Most of these devices force you to wake up through an extra-annoying noise (or by moving away from you), but this new one, the so-called Twist Alarm Clock [JP], makes you solve (simple) math problems....

I built my brand on being accessible. You know me because you know that I care about you, that I care about your projects. This is true. But there’s a huge flaw in how this all works out, in the basic math level, and this came reall...

FHA Chief David Stevens didn’t exactly inspire confidence last week when he rebuffed repeated calls to boost the housing program’s minimum down payment. In fact, he might have injected a new degree of concern into the already murky ...

While it has become popular for some to pretend that the current economic crisis and exploding national debt were created by President Obama and the...

Everyone should be much more cautious when spinning the cost estimate for the Democrats' bill. Former CBO acting director Donald B. Marron on the variables and asterisks involved. Plus, Benjamin Sarlin talks to more past CBO chiefs ...

WASHINGTON -- In the homestretch of the health care debate, one obvious question being asked across the capital is whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi will find...

Geez… the math on this sounds bad. You would think we would be more involved in providing the right kind of airlift for the services; expensive office furniture, no-general left behind act and all that. “The last I checked, the Air...

Published in the Washington PostThursday, March 18, 2010; A18 The No Child Left Behind law, heavily criticized because of the massive amount of testing it involved, required standardized tests in math and reading in the third throug...

It's sure starting to look like both the momentum and the math favor the Democrats and that something will have to go wrong to prevent them from getting to 216 votes on health care.Recall that what we have here is a collective actio...

Can’t decide if you should pick up a DSi XL? Perhaps some pre-installed DSiWare games will change your mind. Just like in Japan, we’ll be getting pre-installed software as well. The games in question are… Brain Age Express: Math,...

A press release -- signed by a Catholic religious sister -- released just now from the bishops' conference questions the storyline the media ran with yesterday about "59,000 nuns" supporting this health-care legislation being pushed...

The just released CBO scoring for the Senate bill and reconciliation package comes in at $940 billion over ten years. A reminder: the benefits (i.e. spending) don’t begin until 2014. The taxation (revenue collection) begins immedia...

Perelman has been awarded the Millennium Prize. Press release from the Clay Math Institute.As Peter Woit points out, no mention of the fate of the million dollars....

Losing weight is all about doing the math. Counting calories has been repeatedly shown to be the most effective way to lose weight and keep it off, but it's difficult for most people to do so.

From quomodocumque: what would the NCAA tournament look like if every game were won by the college or university with the better math department? (Berkeley -- excuse me, "California", as they're usually called in athletic contexts ...

Democrats do the math and start to worry. Developing... ...

A new study from Queens University of Charlotte shows that public high school graduates’ math readiness is declining across the state and in the Charlotte region. We’ll talk to the author of the study, school officials and a UNC Cha...

The CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. WASHINGTON/POLITICAL For the latest political news: www.CNNPolitics.com CNN: Kucinich flip tweaks health care math ...

Ed Morrissey has done a terrific job at Hot Air chronicling President Obama’s malapropisms, blunders, fantasy math, and history-flubbing with his “Obamateurisms” series. It’s a gaffe-a-minute with the supposedly silver-tongued emir ...