This morning I saw a new Facebook poll: ”Is Health Care a Human Right?”. I voted no.
Do you have a right to health care? Yes. And no. My answer ultimately depends on what you mean by a ”right” to health care.
Rights come in two varieties: negative and positive. A negative right can be thought of …
Scene Stealer – The Web Is Pouncing on Hollywood’s Ratings – NYTimes.com
The standard Hollywood ratings — G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 — must now compete with all manner of Internet-based ratings alternatives, some of which are gaining new traction through social networking tools.
SceneSmoking.org, which monitors tobacco use in …
Dear Reader, some mornings I wake up and ask myself: ”Self, how much are hated, really hated?”. Invariably the answer that comes back is ”Not nearly enough”. This morning, I’m going to take the first step towards changing that.
Over the weekend, I saw this video of pretty people trying to save pretty animals, dolphins in …
Between Two Worlds: The Dangers of Culture Warfare Imagery
There is a spiritual component to this battle; and therefore, all our intellectual efforts must express our faithfulness to Christ and must be bathed in prayer. We must never use the weapons of unbelief — dishonesty, slander, name-calling, and so on. The second danger, related …
Earlier this week, Reason Magazine columnist Cathy Young asked why is it still illegal to pay for sex?
Yet prostitution is perhaps the ultimate victimless crime: a consensual transaction in which both parties are supposedly committing a crime, and the person most likely to be charged—the one selling sex—is also the one most likely …
A little black comedy from the Associated Press to start your day off right, Lords and Ladies:
CHICAGO — Nation of Islam officials on Tuesday said Jewish leaders who resigned from a state hate crimes commission rather than serve with one of their members should rejoin the panel or quit criticizing it.
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Madison’s liberals spend a lot of time talking about helping the poor and improving the lives of the poor. This is, bluntly, a load of hogwash.
The Capital Times published another article about Wisconsin Health Care for All and their plan to offer health care to everyone in the city of Madison. In this article, I …
Kudos to Ken Pierce for posting this essay on Morally Outraged Atheists:
Now, I tell that story (which, I should say, I made up) because it goes to the heart of one of atheism’s major problems. An atheist is eager to tell you that there ain’t no transcendent moral laws — and then he’ll …