Feminist bloggers have been vociferously protesting the case of Cassandra Hernandez (pictured). This is how the case is described in Air Force Charges Victim in Her Own Rape from the blog Feministing.com:
"Hernandez was at a party, where she was drinking. She says that three male airman raped her. She went to the hospital and...
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Atheists thought that God really was dead. French revolutionary philosophers and the socialist theoreticians who followed them in the early 1800s were captured by what British socialist Graham Wallas called the liberal fallacy: the self-absorbed assumption that whatever their reasoning told them had, by definition, to be the truth and, furthermore, that everyone else...
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The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's TV Public Service Announcement "Nowhere to Hide" depicts a terrorized 10-year-old child hiding in fear of an abusive father.
The PSA can be seen here. In it, the little child hides under his or her bed (as pictured), in a closet, and in other places. The child even hides a teddy bear because the violent...
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Jonathan V. Last published an essay in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in which he expressed dismay that there are roughly a million and a half abortions each year in the United States of America. I am disturbed about it, too. However, he failed to deal with the obvious implications of all of those pregnancies leading...
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Christians throughout church history have debated the nuances of Eschatology. These debates will doubtless last until Jesus Himself decides to end them. Until then, the theological battles extolling or condemning premillennialism or postmillennialism, pre-tribulation Rapture or post-tribulation Rapture, etc., will continue. To be sure, this column is not an attempt to resolve or even...
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Background: I get as many letters complaining about Texas child support enforcement--meaning Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott--as I do about child support enforcement in the rest of the United States combined. Abbott has launched repeated, well-publicized campaigns against child support debtors, featuring many arrests.
I criticized Abbott and his campaigns in my co-authored column...
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“Enough is enough,†thundered Newark mayor Cory Booker at Saturday’s funeral of Dashon Harvey. The weekend before Dashon, age 20, and two of his friends had been forced to kneel against a wall at a nearby school playground and shot in the head, execution-style. Dashon had been a student at Delaware State University, eventually...
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Is God really just an alien computer programmer for some sort of intergalactic geek squad?
Presumably philosophers are just regular people who happen to have more free time than the rest of us due to the fact they don't date much and there's a university willing to pay them to make wild guesses in a...
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Are societal pressures preventing adults from getting what they want? PJM advice columnist Dr. Helen Smith approaches the question from two directions when she confronts the issues of a couple's desire to pass on IVF eggs to a worthy recipient,...
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The Fed attempts to stamp out the forest fires it keeps starting. Panic in world financial markets has dominated the business news of the past week. The Dow Jones Industrials are down almost 400 points below their July high. Mortgage bankers and hedge funds have lost heavily or been forced out of business. Lenders...
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Keaau, Hawaii – With Hurricane Flossie bearing down on Hawaii, an earthquake measuring a magnitude 5.3 has struck the Big Island. The US Geological Survey placed the epicenter some 26 miles South of Hilo, Hawaii. The temblor occurred at 7:38 PM local time. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Watch and...
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