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[From CNN] It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness. People need to be fed, [...]
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I came across a Facebook friend’s post which declared “Right-wing commentator: Poor people voting is ‘un-American’” Since the liberals who were commenting on the story appeared to completely miss the point that the commentator was getting at, I decided to help them out: Oppression should be opposed regardless of who the oppressors are or who [...]
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Many people today consider government regulation to be a necessary evil. Without government overseeing greedy corporations, the thinking goes, attention to quality, and especially safety, will degrade. It is assumed that government is the only entity with the ability and motivation to look out for the interests of everyone. To help illustrate how faulty the [...]
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[HT A Queer Thing Happened to America] It was pointed out 11 years ago how time and again scientists have claimed that particular genes or chromosomal regions are associated with behavioral traits, only to withdraw their findings when they were not replicated. Findings linking specific genes to complex human behaviors all were announced with great [...]
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Everyone is talking about the present debt ceiling debate, but few people are talking about the root of the issue. Why is it that our nation spends more than it receives in taxes? Here are a couple of issues which outline the root of the issue, our fractional reserve banking system: And is a rather [...]
A friend of mine recently pointed me to this page where in the author crafts an argument against the definition of marriage being between one man and one woman. His argument is based largely on biological anomalies which give rise to odd situations where if we consider the person to be male or female depending [...]
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This interview with Jon Stewart on media bias is painful to watch. What makes this painful to watch is that Stewart refuses to acknowledge the political power humor has in shaping political discourse. At one point he claims that it is sad that he is given credibility because of the failure of news organizations. What he [...]
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