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Chik-fil-A
The recent hullabaloo embroiling Chik-fil-A and its president, Dan Cathy, has been interesting to watch. One point that seems confused in the press and in common discussions is whether the boycott and letters from various pro-gay-rights city leaders are about the … Continue reading
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Is anything necessary?
(In response to the NYT article “Is Algebra Necessary“) I am disturbed by how frequently I see opinion pieces advocating that we teach different “useful” math in school, or teach less math, or just not make math a requirement at … Continue reading
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better gun laws
so many birds with one stone, and such benefits! perhaps we should adopt the Swiss model for our military defense. it’s certainly much cheaper. and every house would have a gun and a person who knows how to use that … Continue reading
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panhandling
this morning, on my way to work, a clinically obese (and then some!) woman had the audacity to beg me for money: “please help me buy some food.” outrageous. i wanted to shout at her: “you’re fatter than me. you should be … Continue reading
Kansas and contraception
This is the conundrum with attempting to protect religious freedom. Pharmacists in Kansas may now refuse to fill prescriptions that they believe may lead to an abortion. “Belief” is important here. They can refuse to sell Plan B and not … Continue reading
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Problems with “after-birth abortion” argument
A recent paper entitled After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? has caused quite a stir amongst the religious because it purportedly shows that abortion is morally equivalent to infanticide. Their argument is no more than an argument of the form … Continue reading
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Tagged after-birth abortion, Alberto Giubilini, Francesca Minerva
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Yoshihiro Hattori and Trayvon Martin
I recently read about the case of Yoshihiro Hattori, another shooting death of an unarmed teenager by someone (Rodney Peairs) who claimed self-defense. The Hattori case is like the Martin case, but with far more evidence that the shooter behaved with … Continue reading
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Tagged George Zimmerman, race warriors, Trayvon Martin, Yoshihiro Hattori
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Healthcare: a simple solution
Why is healthcare a problem in the United States? There are people who do not have health insurance and end up bankrupt when they get sick. They do not have insurance either because it isn’t provided by their employers, they … Continue reading
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Criticise Israel
Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass wrote a poem called Was gesagt werden muss, and was, as a result, banned from Israel. What prompted me to write this post was an opinion piece written by Mark Levine, a professor of Middle Eastern … Continue reading
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