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Death at Fort Hood

Every element in the media's template for multiple shootings by sick and stressed killers is wrong. Have they forgotten about Evil?
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Children are the cause of climate change says the United Nations

The United Nations is using false logic to claim that fewer people in the developing world will help fight climate change.


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At least in Oz, universal cover is good sense, not socialism

An Australian journalist explains why her country’s health insurance system leaves Obamacare in the dust.


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Pre-natal diagnostic techniques pave the way to eugenics

Ever-more sophisticated technology allows us to detect ever more genetic anomalies. What will we do with this knowledge?


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Obama’s China kowtow

Why didn't the President of the free world raise sensitive human rights issues in Beijing? Because he couldn't afford to.


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Would euthanasia damage doctors?

Legalising euthanasia will have incalculable consequences for healthcare professionals.



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It’s not censorship, it’s parenting!

Removing books that are inappropriate for our kids is not the same as banning books.


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Deciphering the Mohammed Trial

Trying the mastermind behind 9/11 in a federal court in Manhattan raises thorny questions in international law.



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Transforming and troubling

Mobile phones are spreading rapidly throughout Africa, bring the blessings of commerce, and the curse of spam.


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Have death panels already arrived?

The case against: an experienced nurse worries that Obamacare will entrench an existing quality-of-life ethic. 


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Give me ObamaCare and my grandmom is doomed?

The case for: a leading American bioethicist defends the Obama Administration’s proposals as fairer, cheaper and more trustworthy.


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