Category: Politics
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Climategate Deepens
by Jason Stotts Dear IPCC, I know you keep having lots of “accidents” and “mishaps” and “other euphemisms,” but I’d like to say that THE ENDS DO NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. Even if you think global warming is true, which is unlikely given the new cooling stage predicted (oh no! Global cooling!), you cannot doctor…
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Racism and Politics
by Jason Stotts By now everyone has heard about Harry Reid and his comments about Obama. From the CNN article on it: “he was favorably impressed by Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and, in a private conversation, described the Illinois senator as a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one’.”…
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The Mayo Clinic Objects
by Jason Stotts Bloomberg is reporting that as of January first, one of the Mayo Clinics in Arizona has decided to stop accepting Medicare patients. This is the right decision for the Clinic because, as they note, medicare patients do not pay enough to warrant treatment. That is, the Mayo Clinic is losing too…
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There’s no G-Spot??
by Jason Stotts In an interesting turn of events, the BBC is reporting that the g-spot may be a myth, in their piece called “The G-Spot ‘Does Not Appear to Exist,’ says Researchers.” To quote the article: “The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers [from King’s…
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A Scholar and a Prostitute?
by Jason Stotts Europe and Me Magazine has published an interesting article called “Prostitution as as Student Job.” The article discusses the rise of prostitution as a way that many female students are paying their way through college and grad school. The common theme in the article is that the women are turning to prostitution…
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Australia Following China’s Lead?
by Jason Stotts I was incredibly surprised to find this article “Australia to Implement Mandatory Internet Censorship.” Apparently, Australia thinks that China is the country to model and doesn’t think that its citizens have the moral or intellectual capacity to judge what they want to see on the internet. Consequently, in order to block “illegal…
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Republicans Ask for Climategate Investigation
by Jason Stotts In an unexpected move, House Republicans are asking the Energy and Commerce Committee to investigate the Climategate scandal and how it is affecting American policy. From the announcement: WASHINGTON – Senior Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today asked House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. to…
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Uganda Bans Female Genital Mutilation
by Jason Stotts In a welcome move, Uganda has passed a new law to ban Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The World Health Organization estimates that over 3,000,000 women throughout the world are forced to undergo Female Genital Mutilation every year, or roughly 342 women every hour of every day. For those who don’t know, FGM…