February 28, 2006 – 12:21 am
In all of the relevant conversations occurring today, there needs to be a denouncing of the dualisms. Denounce any dualistic, antagonistic formulation that does not announce itself as a power relationship. The power relationship is nothing more or less than a strong power and a weak power. This power relationship must be met by the [...]
January 20, 2006 – 04:03 pm
[via BoingBoing] In defense of the Child Online Protection act, the Justice Department has asked Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN for one week’s worth of search data. Over at SearchEngineWatch, Danny Sullivan surmises, “The government apparently wants to estimate how much pornography shows up in the searches that children do.” MSN, AOL, and Yahoo turned [...]
December 21, 2005 – 02:55 pm
For the reasons that follow, we hold that the I[ntelligent] D[esign] Policy is unconstitutional pursuant to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Art. I, § 3 of the Pennsylvania Constituion.
By Kyle
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Posted in Asides
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Also tagged christianity, conservatism, culture_wars, curriculum, education, enlightenment, evolution, intelligent_design, liberalism, Politics, Religion, republicans, united_states
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December 21, 2005 – 01:22 pm
The cool thing about being in Boston is that I can watch T.V. again. Two days ago, I sat around and watched the Senate on CSpan. One thing I got to see was a passionate speech by Senator Byrd, who is like 85 years old. He basically bitchslapped the President for the whole “spying on [...]
December 21, 2005 – 01:07 pm
Our political leaders in Washington have done right by us little people once again. To reward all of us hard workers who take time out of our lives to acquire a higher lever of education than is required by the Republic, our wonderful leaders have decided, in a vote that passed the Senate 51-50, with [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in In A World Gone Mad
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Also tagged america, budget, bush, college, conservatism, culture_wars, democrats, Economics, education, intellectuals, Politics, republicans, united_states, white_house
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November 10, 2005 – 11:32 am
Michael Ratner, a human rights lawyer and president of the Center for Human Rights, has an article on Salon today, titled, Wrong about rights.
He writes:
The idea that torture could be so publicly defensible — and the news that the United States is maintaining secret facilities in former Soviet-era prisons for torturing nameless and disappeared people [...]
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