Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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Two weeks ago I attempted to give a brief account of how society, particularly American society, applies democratic ideals differently to domestic and foreign policy. You can read that post here. I’m not sure I really succeeded at getting the point across. But now, in Egypt, we’ve been given a perfect example of what happens…
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Surprise! Ron Paul Stands Up for the First Amendment! Ron Paul stands up for the First Amendment, protecting the truth, and supporting the messenger who delivers the truth.
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Revisiting Bangla Desh 1971 by Nadir Ali on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 7:14pm I served as a young captain and major in Dhaka and Chittagong and then as second in command and later as commander of 3 Commando Battalion , in the fateful 1971 .I was there from early April to early Oct . We were…
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The decision of a lower court to award the death penalty to a poor Christian woman accused of blasphemy has ignited a wide ranging debate over Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Liberals have asked that the Zia-era blasphemy law should be repealed or amended because it has become an instrument of oppression and injustice in the hands of mobs…
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Over at 3 Quarks Daily, a spirited discussion is under way regarding the morality of informed parents giving birth to biological children when the world is becoming over-populated, strapped for resources and there is an abundance of poor, malnourished and orphaned children in the world. Tauriq Moosa's orginal provocative post here. Nicholas Smyth's rebuttal here. Moosa's…
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That's the conclusion that Stephen Hawking has come to, in his latest book The Grand Design, written in conjunction with Leonard Mlodinow. In his introduction to the book on the amazon.com website: "How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty years ago I wrote A Brief History of Time, to…
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Ahem. At last a western historian has the honesty to face up to what India, the middle east, Africa and Barack Obama knew all along. In a new biography of Winston Churchill, British historian Richard Toye exposes the rampant racism of the WWII hero so revered in the west for his fight against the spread of fascism in Europe.…
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