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• Blogging the Debate: Affirmative Action

  Posted on Wednesday April 16th, 2008 at 20:38 in ABC, affirmative action, Debate, election, obama, pennsylvania, society

  I've always been in favor of affirmative action. Not necessarily race based, but economically based. It's good Obama brought up the fact that this kind of thing should probably be done on a case by ca...

• Sup. Court Upholds Lethal Injection

  Posted on Wednesday April 16th, 2008 at 10:18 in lethal injection, society, supreme court

  The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of capital punishment by form of lethal injection, and obviously seeing nothing wrong with the US being one of the only nations of the West that still systematical...

• 40 Years and a Day

  Posted on Friday April 4th, 2008 at 11:09 in mlk, society

  Today is the 40 year anniversary of MLK Jr's death. Here is the night before: I can't add anymore. His words are more than enough....

• Getting Rid of Pennies

  Posted on Monday March 31st, 2008 at 10:34 in election, obama, Penny, society

  Banning the penny? Obama favors it: "We have been trying to eliminate the penny for quite some time -- it always comes back," Obama said. "I need to find out who is lobbying to keep the penny." Somebo...

• How YouTube Can Provide Context

  Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 11:27 in election, society

  I know it's a moot point because everyone seems to see this as the consensus, but this primary season is definitely the blog and YouTube primary. For one reason, newspapers just don't have the money t...

• Private Discussions Shaping Public Opinion

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 16:59 in election, obama, society

  Bill Kristol, as always, upbeat and positive in his latest column: The only part of the speech that made me shudder was this sentence: “But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford ...

• The Core Issue

  Posted on Thursday March 20th, 2008 at 11:09 in election, obama, peter wehner, society, wright

  Peter Wehner, with the standard response from the Right: Senator Obama’s speech on Tuesday was a brilliant effort to deflect attention away from what remains the core issue: what did Obama hear, whe...

• It's a Chemical Addiction

  Posted on Sunday March 16th, 2008 at 17:57 in chemical addiction, crossfire, partisan, society

  (Photo: John Harrington/Reuters) I guess this is one of the reasons it's almost impossible to change someone's mind when it comes to politics: According to the research of Drew Western, political part...

• Ferraro & Affirmative Action

  Posted on Thursday March 13th, 2008 at 17:22 in affirmative action, election, geraldine ferraro, obama, society

  A moving reminder that Geraldine Ferraro's remarks weren't just untrue, they were also hurtful. Hurtful to minorities who have felt the embarrassment of having their success being unfairly and inaccur...

• A Little Rationality Might Help

  Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 13:53 in 2nd amendment, gun control, gun safety, hunting, society

  A reasoned defense of teaching hunting in public schools. I've got to admit, the first time I heard about this I laughed it off and thought it was ridiculous. After reading the argument though, I real...