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DADT On Its Way Out
by Jason Stotts The Senate today voted 65-31 to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), the policy that banned openly gay members of armed services. This is great news and they need to speed this process along and make it official. WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday voted to strike down the ban on gay…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the December 16, 2010 edition of The Objectivist round up! It is customary for the host to put up a short epigraph at the beginning of each carnival, usually a quote from Ayn Rand. Permit me to break tradition, but this week’s quote is from Avicenna: Anyone who denies the Law of Non-Contradiction…
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Merry Christmas!
by Jason Stotts I put this up last year and I like it so much, I’m putting it up again this year. It’s not that I consider myself a militant atheist, it’s more that I consider myself militantly for reason. Without further ado, a poster for the holiday season.
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Shamenorming
by Jason Stotts I recently had a conversation with someone who argued that slut shaming was dead and that it didn’t happen anymore. I haven’t heard such a naive and fanciful position since religion. For those who have any doubts, here are two very sad stories of slut-shaming. These are certainly not outliers, but just…
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Major Setback for Obamacare
by Jason Stotts In case you somehow missed the news, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that individual insurance mandate of Obamacare unconstitutional. While this puts us down 2-1 for federal cases on Obamacare, hopefully it will be overturned by the Supreme Court as the clear violation of rights that it is. (NYTimes, Bloomberg)…
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Who Athletes Should Thank
by Jason Stotts Via Collegehumor See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Best line: “oh, and there is no god.”
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TSA Encourages Child Molestation
by Jason Stotts One overlooked problem, among oh so many, with the TSA new “protect via sexual assault” policy is that it will encourage child molestation. An article on Raw Story (I’m not actually familiar with this website) quotes child abuse expert Ken Wooden on the dangers of the new TSA policy: Telling a child…
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Child Abuse in Lesbian Households
by Jason Stotts The Huffington Post has an article that is sure to infuriate the Religious Reich: “Child Abuse Rate At Zero Percent In Lesbian Households, New Report Finds.” The atricle notes that: The paper found that none of the 78 NLLFS adolescents reports having ever been physically or sexually abused by a parent or…
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