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So one scientist exaggerates a potential, highly localized effect of global warming, and the entire body of contemporary climate science is thrown...
Don't ask, don't tell, brah.
Shortly after this photo was taken, the eagle, having treated herself from a puddle of spilled soda, lost control of her bowls and soiled the flag...
We only recently withdrew from that one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
Except the Bible does get some significant evolutionary events wrong. For example, the first chapter in Genesis claims that birds were created,...
Does this mean we're in the future? :confused:
Not if you have to let Scola and Lowry go.
I think Da Dakota is an insider. He's always right.
Istanbul Grill and Deli on Morningside (next to Little Woodrow's). I had some eggplant/lamb/yogurt concoction and it was delicious, as was the...
You didn't really answer any of my points, though. Natural law, from its very beginning, has been predicated on misogynistic conceptions of the...
Earlier in this thread you mentioned that Aristotle invented the concept of rights. I pointed out that Aristotle considered women to be deformed...
You're still begging the question. How does one "recognize" a natural right? It can't be determined democratically, as that would mean the...
Locke did invent the idea of a rights-based society, though, and he wasn't talking about universal rights. Your choice in language ("rights...
The use of a deity as a foundation for rights is dangerous in its own right. If the source of rights is divine, then so is the justification for...
Nietzsche's "will to power" is descriptive, not prescriptive. Hitler's co-opting of Nietzchean themes as a pretext for committing mass genocide...
The truthers in this thread and elsewhere have been conditioned to avoid putting forward any sort of positive theory on what happened on 9/11....
I'm still skeptical of the farthest reaches of the Brooks hype (this article as an example), but he has done nothing but impress. I think most...
I doubt McCain needs to be angry to pee his pants.
OK, so what level of trust would you have to have to hand over the care of your children to someone?
Would you even know who those two are if it weren't for Rush's program? It seems like they are dependent on Rush in some sense. Still, I don't...