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Where the ‘oughts’ come from

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 April 2010 |
tags: Belgium, natural law, Pope Benedict
Activists have been trying to drive religiously informed voices out of public debate for a very long time, with some…


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Woe to the next leader of New York

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 April 2010 |
tags: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, New York Governor David Paterson
And all leadership executives ought to pay heed to David Paterson’s warning: you’re in quicksand right now, and though you…


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Is it an Obama moment, or movement?

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 April 2010 |
tags: President Barack Obama, racial politics

Now this is a good question socio-political question, and seems like a good time to explore it, which a…


Gross national happiness

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 April 2010 |
tags: economics, environment, happiness
'We’re from the government and we are here to make you happier.' Really?


Call it a win for parents

Brian Lilley | 29 April 2010 |
tags: education, parenting, sex education
A government plan for explicit sex-ed gets shut down by parents


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Cross stays, Court rules

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 April 2010 |
tags: Justice Anthony Kennedy, memorial crosses, Supreme Court
This post should be called ‘Battle after battle’. First the ones that take the lives of our Armed Forces in…


Will Pakistan have the upper hand when the US leaves Afghanistan?

Peter Zeihan | 28 April 2010 |
tags: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Stratfor
When the US withdraws from Afghanistan, Pakistan will fill the power vacuum -- to the consternation of India.


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Chocolate and depression. Yeah, right…

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 April 2010 |
tags: Chocolate, cocoa, health benefits

Sometimes, the sense of the people just de facto outstrips all the scientific surveys and warnings of academia. And…


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If these people are running Ukraine

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 April 2010 |
tags: Congress, parliament, Ukraine
Think the Brits have the corner on parliamentary antics? Look what's coming out of Ukraine...


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Holding back on Ft. Hood

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 April 2010 |
tags: congressional investigation, Defense Dept., Ft. Hood, Justice Dept., Pentagon
Maybe there’s a good reason…something to do with national security perhaps?…that the feds won’t fully cooperate with the congressional investigation…


Free will and fruit flies

William E. Carroll | 28 April 2010 |
tags: free will, philosophy, scientism
If we are just a sack of chemical reactions and have no free will, shouldn't we change our legal system accordingly?


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A believer’s heart in a digital world

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 April 2010 |
tags: Digital communications, Pope Benedict XVI, social networking, technology
Cyberspace can be so cold. And impersonal. That, in spite of the glut of humans interacting digitally. That's why Italian…


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Students admit: ‘I’m addicted to my cellphone’

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 April 2010 |
tags: addiction, media, social networking
People often speak loosely about youths being “addicted” to their cellphones or iPods but research carried out at the University…


Are we sleepwalking into a surveillance society?

Geoffrey Hunt | 27 April 2010 |
tags: biometrics, privacy
Although it is undoubtedly useful, personal identity technology could potentially lend itself to the gradual erosion of democracy and support for an authoritarian, protective state.


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Church literacy

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 April 2010 |
tags: Catholic teaching, media literacy, religion reporting
Business and financial reporters are required to have a certain aptitude with their subject matter for acceptable coverage, and to…


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