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Yes, you give up some freedom when you put in your lot with others but the existence of anti abortion swing voters doesn't make it right for the government to use my tax dollars to do things i don't like while exempting abortion opponents from the same. It's a clear violation of equal protection, the right of all of us to equal treatment by the ...
Posted to Human Nature by destor on November 11, 2009
Bicycle Traffic Rules
I think the writer is off the mark. It may be that without vehicles we wouldn't need stop signs, but it is silly to say that cyclists as a group should be able to ignore traffic signals. Pedestrians can't ignore them. And there's a good reason to pay attention, and obey, traffic laws. They protect the safety of all of us, but most particularly ...
Posted to Transport by smckinn on October 20, 2009
Predictability
The vehicular cyclists are right on this one, and it has nothing to do with the honor of bicycles being treated with the same honorable status as cars. The issue is predictability. One doesn't need a license to ride a bicycle, and therefore the people on bicycles are necessarily less predictable than the people in cars. If legally forced to ...
Posted to Transport by fencingpenguin on October 17, 2009
Sorry, I Disagree
*Is this racism? Maybe not. In a notorius speech, Bill Cosby lambasted poor blacks for contributing to their own misfortunes by using slang, dressing badly, and giving their children ''names like Shaniqua, Taliqua, and Mohammed and all that crap.'' Cultural misunderstanding and hostility is a serious problem in today's increasingly cosmopolitan ...
Posted to Politics by N.N. on October 9, 2009
Artificial Person with No Soul and No Conscience
That's the legal and social status of a corporation in America. The absurdity of it is that corporations exist by virtue of government franchise. In other words, the government, created by the people to serve their needs, now creates artificial persons with the same rights as natural persons. How could that possibly be? That's like humans creating ...
Posted to The Best Policy by rjhuntington on September 8, 2009
To each his own religion
«It is still individuals who have rights, not religions.» I couldn't agree more with the above. Yet, as I read it, I couldn't help remembering a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision that corporations have the same protection as individuals under the U. S. Bill of Rights. I call this appalling, too.
Posted to Fighting Words by Jose Ferreira on March 4, 2009
Why Ban Marriage at All?
This was an excellent column. However, I would have enjoyed it more had the author addressed why we should ban any marriages at all, more explicitly. Consenting adults should have an almost unlimited right to contract. Marriage is a contract and if there is no direct harm to another individual, there should be no reason to ban it. It seems ...
Posted to Frame Game by Lojiko on January 10, 2009
REBOOT THE SYSTEM??
If Obama does as you seem to suggest, that we acknowledge that some wrong was done but we have to let bygones be bygones, reboot the system so to speak, then we have admitted in the full light of day that we have a multitiered legal system, not blind justice. It will always be disruptive to have investigations and possible prosecutions, but ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by gloriarouse on December 8, 2008
Gay Marriage and the Race Analogy
The racism analogy isn't perfect or exact and probably should not be the only one used. However, until a better analogy can be made, and I don't see the writer of this article offering any suggestions, it's going to stick! A complicating factor will be the many bigots of all races and creeds who refuse to accept the growing body of evidence that ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Chaordic on November 14, 2008
Re: speech or advertising?
Aha! We've hit on the true crux of the issue! The Ten Commandments is an advertisement - for the movie of the same name! Now, I happen to be very much a fan of MyDamnChannel's You Suck At Photoshop. Perhaps the Supreme Court will mandate that this series be commemorated, perhaps in a thirty-foot-tall monolith of black granite? --Devin ...
Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by dccarles on November 13, 2008

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