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[TPM: The Philosophers' Magazine] TPM: The Philosophers' Magazine | Debate: academic freedom: With that in mind, I read the AFAF statement as asserting a guild right for academics, which implies a corresponding set of obligations that academics have to those whom they might offend. It is not saying that academics can say whatever they want simply because they are academics.

[Australians for Palestine] Westminster Hall debates - Israeli Settlements 21 July 09: EDITOR’S COMMENT:  The following debate is definitely worth reading and should any of our own parliamentarians become acquainted with the way their British counterparts are thinking these days, they would not be so quick to take up an unquestioning defence of Israel.  The tide is definitely turning against Israel’s apartheid policies and practices and Australia may well find itself out on a limb if it does not begin to hold Israel to account for its refusal to adhere to international law and conventions.

[frogblog] frogblog » General Debate, July 16, 2009: That phrase, “the common heritage of all New Zealanders”, offers a clear path forward for the Labour Party. A path which, on the vexed question of Maori- Pakeha relations, would lead it in a new, and much more wholesome direction than the path it has been following since the early 1980s.

[John Quiggin] John Quiggin » Presentations at Wollongong and Parramatta: John, I tend to agree with Dr Martin Parkinson when he says “It is crucial that we keep the debate honest in the final stages and work together to achieve a successful outcome’ for there has been a lot of unsubstantiated and unscientific bulldust being put forward by sceptics from within the Coalition.

[Anarchist Writers] How Lenin led to Stalin | Anarchist Writers: The second point worth considering about Lenin's internationalism is his insistence from 1918 onwards, that the task was to build "state capitalism, as "If we introduced state capitalism in approximately 6 months' time we would achieve a great success..".[1] He was also to say "Socialism is nothing but state capitalist monopoly made to benefit the whole people". [2] This calls into question Lenin's concept of socialism.

[replica True Religion Jeans] Breaking the Cease-Fire Between Science and Religion - replica ...: Critics of this position include those like University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne, who lashes out at the accommodationists because, as he wrote in an essay in The New Republic, “a true harmony between science and religion requires either doing away with most people’s religion and replacing it with a watered-down deism, or polluting science with unnecessary, untestable, and unreasonable spiritual claims.”

[The Greenroom] The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Oh Please Don't Throw Me into that ...: As you probably guess, this is a fearsome weapon in corrupt hands: If the majority selectively denies franking privileges for the minority, it can control the debate by silencing opposition. And that appears to be exactly what is happening in this case: Democrats are trying to silence Republicans, while allowing their own side to send as much free mail supporting ObamaCare as it wants, so long as it’s careful to phrase the support as mere “explanation”

[Kruse Kronicle] Kruse Kronicle: DBE: Chapter 12 - Teaching and Usurping Authority ...: Despite a broad spectrum of biblical and extrabiblical texts that highlight female leaders, 1 Timothy 2:11-15 continues to be perceived and treated as the Great Divide in the debate. Indeed, a hierarchical interpretation of this passage has become for some a litmus test for the label evangelical 

[Some Have Hats] Some Have Hats: Union Spokesfolk: When I was on Judging Amy, in the early 2000's, the television economy was such that there was some wiggle room in the quote area, and almost no wiggle room in our budget. So there were times when we had exactly this much and no more to pay for a part, and we would want an actor/actress whose quote was slightly higher.

[Big Lizards] Big Lizards:Blog:Entry “Oh Please Don't Throw Me into that Brady ...: As you probably guess, this is a fearsome weapon in corrupt hands: If the majority selectively denies franking privileges for the minority, it can control the debate by silencing opposition. And that appears to be exactly what is happening in this case: Democrats are trying to silence Republicans, while allowing their own side to send as much free mail supporting ObamaCare as it wants, so long as it's careful to phrase the support as mere "explanation" or "description" -- exactly what they want to stop the GOP from doing.

[The Caucus] The Early Word: On the Road Again - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: Under free market capitalism, eleven of the fifteen cabinet departments would cease to exist and only the departments of justice, defense, state, and treasury would remain. Within those departments, moreover, further reductions would be made, such as the abolition of the IRS in the Treasury Department and the Antitrust Division in the Department of Justice.

[Roman Catholic Blog] Roman Catholic Blog: Bishop Tod Brown: More Defiance In Orange County?: It is thus useful for the diocesan bishop to issue particular norms concerning extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion which, in complete harmony with the universal law of the Church, should regulate the exercise of this function in his diocese. Such norms should provide, amongst other things, for matters such as the instruction in eucharistic doctrine of those chosen to be extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, the meaning of the service they provide, the rubrics to be observed, the reverence to be shown for such an august Sacrament and instruction concerning the discipline on admission to Holy Communion.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Just Another Sad Old Man, All Alone ...: It ’s just not this Lite Colonel who’s saying bat shit stuff, the wingnuts are now wondering why the left isn’t speaking up about the soldier’s Geneva Convention rights. Gee, I guess they got us libtards right between the eyes with that one.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] Liars, Anger and Fear... oh my! | Obey's Blog: Emotionsdon't just drop out of the sky (or the amygdala or the endocrine glands), and somehowoccasionally insinuate themselves into our otherwise pristine linear conceptual thinking.In reality there's no clear line between thinking and feeling in general, and the linedisappears altogether when it comes to thinking about things that matter - ourcares, concerns, and values. There's no real difference between thinkingsomething is dangerous and feeling fear.

[Jay Bookman] This birther nonsense becoming a big problem for the GOP | Jay Bookman: The Democratic-led committee has been struggling to keep a group of fiscally conservative Democrats on board with the nearly $1 trillion, 10-year healthcare overhaul. The group, known as the Blue Dog Democrats, has said they cannot support legislation that would increase the massive federal budget deficit.

[blogs.telegraph.co.uk blog listings.] Marc Morano and Joe Romm debate the politics of climate change ...: And even that some genuine AGW, mostly through urban and agricultural development, and even some greenhouse emissions effect, but trivial in comparison to natural climate shifts. I do not accept projected forecasts of catastrophic warming, which some proponents admit are exaggerated anyway just get public attention, and I do not accept that reducing CO2 emissions will have any counter effect.

[Front Porch Republic] Front Porch Republic » Blog Archive » An Actually Interesting Debate: Way back when Culture 11 was still in working order, I wondered if the problem with “postmodern conservatism” was that it simply wasn’t Marxist enough-that is, not quite able (or willing) to address the full extent of and connections within the cultural and socio-economic order of things (and thus really think thoroughly about what was to be conserved), choosing instead to affirm that the best way to “get beyond” modernity was to insist that properly understood, the modern world of individual liberty and property rights really is virtuous and/or Christian and/or natural or whatever”¦which suggests that the actual, pratical goal was to find intellectual justifications for politically supporting various partisan tools for tunneling back into and retrieving from modernity that which they believe was there all along. Maybe that’s an unfair estimation of what the learned folks at the original PoMoCon blog were doing, but the parallels they had with the First Things/theoconservative crowd (you know, the real America is actually Christian in some deep sense, the real John Paul II is actually liberal in some deep sense, etc.), especially once they resurrected their blog there, are I think too obvious to ignore.

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