Category: Politics
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Nudity Now Legal in Munich
by Jason Stotts Nudity has now been legalized in Munich Germany, which is Germany’s third largest city. The city, in what I think is a reasonable compromise, designated six different areas around the city where nudity is permitted. Additionally, the city is very tolerating of nudity and has a tradition of what they call Freikörperkultur…
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Operation Choke Point and the Erosion of Freedom
by Jason Stotts Today is the Fourth of July or American Independence Day. It’s a day when we celebrate the freedoms we have by enjoying spending time with our families, having barbecues, going to parades, and watching fireworks. It’s a day when we should be contemplating what freedom is and what it took to achieve…
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The Obama DOJ and the War on Porn
by Jason Stotts In a move that sounds like it should be coming from the Republican/Theocratic party, the Obama administration is targeting the bank accounts of porn stars and forcing banks to close them through a program they’re calling “operation choke point.” This is a massive overreach (again) of the Obama administration and a flatly…
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Capitalism and the Death of Writing
by Jason Stotts Writing is hard. Not only is it hard to string words together into sentences that people want to read, it’s hard to express your thoughts clearly in writing. You can think you have a great grasp of an idea until the moment you go to write about it, only to find that…
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A Government For, or Against, The People
by Jason Stotts In honor of Halloween, I recently watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time. One of the things that really struck me about the movie, which is probably not most people’s response, was just how very different the government’s position was in regards to the people. Night of the Living…
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Happy American Independence Day!
by Jason Stotts The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays because it has a very important meaning to it: the value of freedom and its necessity for a good life. On the Fourth of July, American Independence Day, we are asked to remember the great struggle it took to win our freedom…
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RIP: Exodus International
by Jason Stotts I never thought I’d see the day when a christian group as ignorant and bigoted as Exodus International would close its doors. But, happily, today is that day: The leader of a large Christian ministry that claims to offer a “cure” for homosexuality apologized to the LGBT community and announced on Wednesday that the…
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The Corruption of The Obama Administration
by Jason Stotts It should be clear to my readers that I have no love for our current president (nor for our last one, for that matter). I talked about some of my problems in “Obama and the Path to Tyranny” and now even more more people are fed up with the administration. Buzzfeed has…