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  • Separate person

    ''How can South Dakota claim that you should know separation will kill the fetus, when South Dakota has insisted on informing you, prior to the procedure, that the fetus is already whole and separate?'' Saletan's question obfuscates the distinction between what ''separate' means legally and what it means biologically. The fetus is biologically ...
    Posted to Human Nature by kcmulville on July 21, 2008

  • The Numbers will rarely be right

    Except for pre-made or pre-portioned items (shakes or Subway sandwiches) most menu items are custom made for the patron. The analyzed portions go out the window when the cook add a little more sauce, sautees with a little more oil, adds a little more cheese -- all to make it ''better.'' Watch what happens when a patron buys a menued and posted ...
    Posted to Moneybox by Michael Gordon on July 8, 2008

  • Sexual Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement & the InterNET

    Thanks for a very interesting and thoughtful article that addressed current events, came up with new approaches, and put it all together neatly in one, entertaining article. My view on those folks who would employ our law enforcement authorities to charge and convict individual InterNET users, is somewhat different. I see these forceful, legal ...
    Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • Government abuse of power

    South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008

  • Lieing Hypocrites

    What an article. Talk about no research. Did the author just call up the JW PR department and copy down everything they told him? Yes, the Watchtower Society promoted the fact that the poor Witnesses in the African country of Malawi were being persecuted because they were told by the Watchtower not to buy a political I.D. card. If they did the ...
    Posted to Explainer by Harry Harr on June 28, 2008

  • Guns don't kill people...

    The phrase ''Gun's don't kill people, People kill people.'' is often used by those who believe that the 2nd amendment should allow them unlimited access to any and every firearm they can afford. They use this argument to make the point that a weapon is a tool, and since we don't restrict the use or sale of shovels, or hammers, or knives etc., ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by AJIntrocaso on June 26, 2008

  • Swinging with Passion Makes for Bad Case Law

    Justice Anthony Kennedy is a passionate man. He was a passionate judge and now je is a passionate Justice. But while one may want zealousness in one’s representation in the legal arena, passion in deciding law is dangerous, if not outright foolishness. Passions are swayed. Passions are fired up. Passions are capricious. On April 18, 2007, Ms. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by IMKessel on June 20, 2008

  • Scalia, you don't represent us - you weren't chosen by us

    A recent study showed that a community of adult men and women who indulged in premarital sex actually helped decrease the incidence of AIDS (Google that sentence along with ''Thailand'' and you'll find the study). So, Scalia - what gives you the right to be the moral guardian of an entire nation of people who DID NOT choose you?? Really, get a ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Chenoa on June 20, 2008

  • Another Perspective on Wasted Lives

    Between the years of 1943 and 1946, the American military executed 70 of its own soldiers for crimes committed in Europe. Fifty-five of the executed were African-American. This meant that African Americans, who constituted only 8.5 percent of the army, accounted for nearly 79 percent of the executions carried out by the American military.
    Posted to History Lesson by PTCruiser on May 30, 2008

  • Noble Emergencies of Good Intentions

    I think the unstated background of this article is even more signifcant than its foreground (valuable as Ms. Lithwick's observations always are!). The Founding generation's mistrust of 'government' such that they thought primarily in terms of how to cage the thing has been replaced by a sense that government's operatives are 'just folks' and are ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by odysseus on May 26, 2008
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