Category: Philosophy
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"Excused Horrors"
by Jason Stotts Back in November, Walter Williams wrote a piece called “Excused Horrors” that I meant to blog about, but it somehow got lost in the shuffle. However, it was good enough that I still think people should take a look at it and think about Williams’s point. Nazis were responsible for the deaths…
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California Set to Release Thousands of Prisoners
by Jason Stotts The People’s State of California, in addition to being completely bankrupt, is now going to be forced to release thousands of prisoners. California state and local officials, already reeling from budget cuts and public-safety layoffs, are struggling with a federal order to release about 40,000 inmates to reduce prison overcrowding and bracing…
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An Interesting Cartoon
by Jason Stotts I just got a chain e-mail with the following cartoon that purports to be from a 1934 edition of the Chicago Tribune. In case you can’t read it, the “Plan of Action for the U.S.” is: Spend! Spend! Spend! Under the guide of recovery – bust the government – blame the capitalists for the failure – junk the constitution and…
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The Climategate Snowball
by Jason Stotts I hate to post so much on climategate, but it just keeps snowballing bigger and bigger. Today, the WSJ has a new piece up called “The Continuing Climate Meltdown” and, no, it’s not going to say that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is true. I recommend reading the entire article, but here are…
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Utah Officially Thinks Global Warming is a Scam
by Jason Stotts The Heartland Institute has a post up about how the Utah House of Representatives has just passed a resolution that: “implies climate change science is a conspiracy, and urges the EPA to stop all carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs. Among other things, the resolution claims there is “a well organized and…
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IPCC Sinks Lower (Climategate Update)
by Jason Stotts The Telegraph is reporting that the IPCC report is even worse than has come to light in various ways since Climategate began. In their piece “New Errors in IPCC Climate Change Report” they list the following new errors in the report that have come to light: The publication of inaccurate data on…
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More Evidence that “Abstinence Only” Education is a Failure
by Jason Stotts The Guttmacher Institute has recently released a report that shows that absolute failure of “abstinence-only” (i.e. religious) sex education. The report is “Following Decade-Long Decline, U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate Increases as Both Births and Abortions Rise.” For the first time in more than a decade, the nation’s teen pregnancy rate rose 3% in…
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Dr. Tiller Was Murdered
by Jason Stotts Last May, Dr. George Tiller was gunned down by a religious fanatic in a church. The fanatic’s name was Scott Roeder and he defended his actions by saying that he was justified in the killing because Dr. Tiller was an abortion doctor who was “murdering unborn children” who could not defend themselves.…