February 2011
94 posts
I want to know how the individual health insurance...
The government can compel you to buy car insurance because driving without insurance causes societal harm.
Living ALWAYS results in a need for health care. Everyone gets sick and/or breaks a bone. Those who do not purchase health care because they don’t want to or because they can’t afford it cause societal harm when they, say, go to the emergency room or get old, go on Medicare and...
January 2011
82 posts
John Thune
or a Dark Horse. Calling it right now, GOP nominee.
“There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you....”
– Charles Bukowski, Women
God is a laughing sadist.
Anonymous asked: you ok max greenberg?
smoke. be miserable. drink. be miserable. smoke....
But the real money in the entitlements, it’s Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. And unless we do something about those, you can’t balance the budget. You can’t fix the deficit or the national debt by killing NPR or National Endowment for the Humanities or the Arts. Nice political chatter, but that doesn’t do it. And I’m very put off when people just say...
Drink The Kool-Aid!: Speaker Boehner, where are... →
pantslessprogressive:
Full applause to Eclectablog for compiling the following list.
So far in the 112th Congress, the Republicans haven’t introduced a single jobs bill. However, from the Republicans, as of today, we have at least:
16 bills to repeal all or parts of the Affordable…
"I'm victim to my own purity of character."
Jed Bartlett
Glenn Beck targets a female college professor as... →
inothernews:
Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
At 78, she has taught several generations of students about how and why poor people don’t get a fair shake in the United States and how to increase their organizational power and encourage voter registration.
…
[Beck] accused her of...
extremely
upset
When the Chinese come to town, Republicans...
lol too was a typo, i know the right usage of too and to just so you know anyone who saw that
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John Rawls' Theory of Justice- veil of ignorance
The “original position” Main article: Original position Like Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, Rawls belongs to the social contract tradition. However, Rawls’ social contract takes a slightly different view from that of previous thinkers. Specifically, Rawls develops what he claims are principles of justice through the use of an entirely and deliberately artificial device he calls the...
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Divine Command Theory and Euthyphro's Dilemma
Divine command theory is the meta-ethical view about the semantics or meaning of ethical sentences, which claims that ethical sentences express propositions, some of which are true, about the attitudes of God. That is, it claims that sentences such as “charity is good” mean the same thing as sentences such as “God commands charity”.
This makes divine command theory...
Here’s an Easy One
-NYT today
Vows by Congressional Republicans to slash billions from the federal budget at a time when joblessness is high and the economy needs stimulus are reckless. But here is one big-ticket saving that all members of Congress should get behind: cutting the billions of dollars in farm subsidies that distort food prices, encourage overfarming and inflate the price of land.
The government...
Sure Thing.: Arab Activism: Brought to you by a... →
uhuh-she-said:
According to Elizabeth Dickinson over at Foreign Policy and referenced as one of the top stories on the Huffington Post, one Julian Assange practically ousted the President of Tunisia himself. Oh sure, there was that whole self-immolation thing that started it. There are the myriad of fathers,…
Squashed: Justice is Not Optional →
squashed:
Dan the Conservative apparently thinks imagining a society where all social-ills can be solved by private charity can stand in the place of a just society. He writes:
Charity, done right, is a double gift. In addition to the obvious benefits to the recipient, it transforms the giver. The left…
deadpresidents asked: No worries. I thought about throwing something in about the population differential between FDR's time and Nixon's time, but, to be honest, I was half-asleep and half-assing it this morning when I wrote today's fact. Thanks for reading and thanks especially for paying attention. Someone who wasn't paying attention wouldn't have been able to get excited about population...
backitupanddumpit asked: MAXWELL.
i totes have that to be or not to be soliloquy memorized no big deal im bragging.
i totes have that to be or not to be soliloquy memorized no big deal im bragging.
