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Joel is a Web developer and student of law & politics currently residing in Bowling Green, Oh. Comments are always appreciated!
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thought experiment
I love thought experiments… A friend poses the following: Imagine that there really were these fundamentalist Christian terror cells all over the United States, as the Department of Homeland Security imagines. Let’s say a group of five of these terrorists hijacked … Continue reading
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Climate U-Turn
Thank God for the british press. From The Daily Mail: for the past 15 years… there has been no “statistically significant” warming… according to Professor Phil Jones… former director of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. Wait… I thought … Continue reading
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Hitchens Interview
While it starts a bit on the slow side, this interview with Christopher Hitchens is superb. One thing in particular that stuck me was how I feel his attitude towards religious believers — particularly Christian believers — has seemed to … Continue reading
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Obama’s Show Trials
Obama (acting through his Attorney General Eric Holder) has recently decided that we are going to try SOME (but not all) Guantanamo terrorists in civilian courts in New York. When questioned about this decision, Eric Holder stated that “The Department … Continue reading
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Netanyahu Speech
This is a really great speech. Sort of sad Netanyahu needed to give it… but worth watching. Here is a brief transcript: BUT TO THOSE WHO GAVE THIS HOLOCAUST-DENIER A HEARING, I SAY ON BEHALF OF MY PEOPLE, THE JEWISH … Continue reading
American Constitutionalism
Did you guys read this?? It’s blowing my mind Watson marshals the speeches and writings of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and the jurisprudence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others, as evidence for his claim of the pervasive influence … Continue reading
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Letter to the Editor
To the Editors at the New York Times: I was entirely shocked to find that Thomas Friedman’s recent editorial on American Democracy was not only read by your editors… but thought good enough to publish. To borrow a bit of … Continue reading
WORKING hard…
sorry you guys… I’m working in the office right now and filling out lengthy job applications in the meantime… and haven’t had much chance to blog… so in lieu of witty commentary by yours truely… why not try something completely … Continue reading
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