Sandra Fluke Mows The Lawn: A Play In One Act
Scene A suburban Washington DC street some sunny afternoon in July. Little Sandra and her friend Mark arrive at the house of Mr George. Little Sandra pushes a manual lawn…
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Why You Don’t Want Free Health Care: Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Obamacare
Our reading today is from the Constitution, first Act, eighth Section, third Clause: [The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and…
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My Failure To Purchase Something In The Market Subjects Me To Regulation
The title words were spoken to Solicitor General Verrilli by Justice Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments. Scalia was making the obvious point that because he might not buy a thing…
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Squirrel Arrested For Stealing Nuts: Nonhuman Rights Entail Nonhuman Responsibilities
Wesley Smith writes at the Weekly Standard: [T]he annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science hosted a panel supporting the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans, which…
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What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common
Not much, except to demonstrate that the natural state of modernity is something closely resembling mass lunacy. To explain. Swedish Pronouns Via Sam Schulman â€(Twitter: @Sam_Schulman) we infer that 1984…
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New York’s Induced Terminations Of Pregnancy
New York City's Health Department (motto: It's for your own good!) released its annual birth and death statistics, and the internet is aflutter, particularly over the numbers on abortion. "Raw"…
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Obama’s Faulty Pay Gap Statistics, Philosophy Of Abortion; Plus, The End Of The World
Deadline: 21 May 2011 Family Radio Worldwide has hit the road (in a bunch of mobile homes) to preach that the end shall come just over two months from now.…
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City Of Free Love To Ban Circumcision
An enraged citizen's group in San Francisco has submitted legislation that, if passed, would ban abortion---no, wait. I have that wrong. They would ban circumcision. In a fit of Enlightenment…
