Idaho law banning abortions after 20 weeks ruled unconstitutional
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-idaho-abortion-law-20130307,0,1080762.story
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Friday, March 08, 2013
Article: Idaho law banning abortions after 20 weeks ruled unconstitutional
Idaho law banning abortions after 20 weeks ruled unconstitutional
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-idaho-abortion-law-20130307,0,1080762.story
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Thursday, March 07, 2013
Slate: The Laptop of the Future
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Tweet from James Martin (@Pundamentalism)
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Tweet from Shawn Garrett (@ShawnGarrett)
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So we go a few days without a Pope and we already cured AIDS? | |
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Persuasive Litigator: Speak to the Brain's Politics
While engaged in this task, Democrats showed greater activity in the left insula, an area in the brain that is believed to be connected to self-awareness, social awareness, and specifically the perception of others' internal states and drives. Republicans, on the other hand, showed greater activity in the right amygdala, the region associated with our reactions to fear and the fight or flight response.
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What happens when you study conspiracy theories? The conspiracy theorists make up conspiracy theories about you! – denialism blog
Don't argue with cranks. I can't agree more. And historically this is what has worked with denialist groups. You don't debate them as if they're honest brokers, you treat them as the defective brains that they are, and eventually, their influence dwindles, and they'll be reduced to a small community of losers sharing their delusions of grandeur and righteous indignation in some tiny corner of the internet.
The key to preventing denialism isn't in arguing with those that have already formed fixed, irrational ideas. It can only happen with prevention – early education that emphasizes logic, scientific methods, rational thought and non-ideological, pragmatic approaches to problem solving.
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Bush Administration Was a Disaster | The American Conservative
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/an-inconvenient-truth-the-bush-administration-was-a-disaster/
Most Americans remember the Bush years as a period of expanding government, ruinous war, and economic collapse. They voted for Obama the first time as a repudiation of those developments. Many did so a second time because most Republicans continue to pretend that they never happened.
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Bits and Pieces: Oprah at Harvard, Part II
http://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2013/03/oprah-at-harvard-part-ii.html
she promotes the paranormal, psychic powers, new age spiritualism,
conspiracy theories, quack celebrity diets, past life regression,
angels, ghosts, alternative therapies like acupuncture and homeopathy,
anti-vaccination, detoxification, vitamin megadosing, and virtually
everything that will distract a human being from making useful
progress and informed decisions in life
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she promotes the paranormal, psychic powers, new age spiritualism,
conspiracy theories, quack celebrity diets, past life regression,
angels, ghosts, alternative therapies like acupuncture and homeopathy,
anti-vaccination, detoxification, vitamin megadosing, and virtually
everything that will distract a human being from making useful
progress and informed decisions in life
---SPSmith
Article: Is Individual Liberty Over-Rated?
Is Individual Liberty Over-Rated?
http://bigthink.com/Mind-Matters/is-individual-liberty-over-rated
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Mitt Romney: "It Kills Me Not to Be in the White House" - Little Green Footballs
can you believe these spoiled whiny multi-millionaires? They lost the election because the American people saw through the pandering to the true Mitt Romney: the rich elitist snob who held them in contempt, and would blatantly lie in his quest for power. With every ungracious word out of their mouths, the Romneys just confirm that this impression was dead on
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Sunday, March 03, 2013
Article: The Black Queen Hypothesis
The Black Queen Hypothesis
http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2013/03/02/the-black-queen-hypothesis/
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I thought you'd like this azcentral article. Check it out:
Spending on Medicare, other programs can't be ignored
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/20130331medicaid-spending-us-budget.html
I thought you'd like this azcentral article. Check it out:
Spending on Medicare, other programs can't be ignored
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/20130331medicaid-spending-us-budget.html
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Saturday, March 02, 2013
Explanation is not Justification | Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Hayek argues inLaw, Legislation, and Liberty, and even more clearly in The Fatal Conceit, that one reason people are inclined toward socialism and have difficulty accepting the market order and its rules is that we spent a long evolutionary past in small, face-to-face, kin-based groups in which broadly collectivist and altruistic moral rules held and were effective. That is, we have evolved moral instincts that are disposed to collectivism and socialism. We evolved in a world where top-down or collectivist distribution of goods according to need was more the norm and could work thanks to the limited size of groups, which allowed for face-to-face, intimate knowledge of others. For Hayek, the challenge of modernity is learning to live in a world of abstract rules of just conduct that bind us by agreement on means rather than ends.
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Friday, March 01, 2013
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