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[paulstoller.com] The Return of the Know-Nothings - paulstoller.com: She has questioned the constitutionality of the separation of church and state and has pridefully displayed her ignorance of contemporary social life.  Her display along with a whole host of other extreme candidates of the Republican Party is a kind of celebration of ignorance, a celebration of know-nothingism.

[Yglesias] Yglesias » Not Rocking the Vote in Jerusalem: But in an interesting wrinkle, permanent residents are allowed to vote in municipal elections. In practice, however, they refuse to do so operating under the ideological theory that voting would grant legitimacy to Israel’s claims of sovereignty over the territory.

[Copyhype] Lawyers and the Art of Puzzling and Confounding | Copyhype: The key idea is that the phrase “reasonable expectation of privacy” is a constitutional term of art, much like other constitutional terms of art like “due process,” “free speech,” “strict scrutiny,” or “fundamental rights.” You normally can’t answer if something violates “due process” just by asking if there was a “process” that seemed “due,” much like you can’t answer if a regulation satisfies “strict scrutiny” by scrutinizing the regulation while being “strict.” In all of these cases, the phrase captures a complicated body of caselaw; You can’t just repeat the name for the test and think that the name accurately captures the doctrine.

[Blog Entries] Reforming "Politics as Usual:" Presbyterians and the Pursuit of ...: My favorite prophet is Roger Williams, the fiery Puritan defender of religious freedom, whose brand of Calvinist Christianity makes today’s evangelicals look downright liberal, but who nonetheless refused to disqualify people from the rights and liberties of citizenship just because they subscribed to convictions different from his. Serious moral disagreement and peaceful co-existence are compatible, argued Williams, and he argued that all citizens should relate to one another with civility, regardless of their philosophical differences.

[Baby Love Child] Baby Love Child » Emily Portellos, crimes against “women's ...: It may be an essentialist reaction the other way, too–women in their right minds would never kill their babies–but those who do are treated by authorities with a modicum of sympathy. New reports almost always feature police and medical and social workers asking mum to come forward She must be very scared, sad, We are concerned about her health She made need medical attention ,etc.

[Letters to the Editor] Whitman did all the right things - Letters to the Editor : The ...: California Republican gubernatorial candidate and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman answers questions form the media following the second televised debates between Whitman and California attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown at Fresno State October 2, 2010 in Fresno, California. (Getty Images)

[Fr. Z's Blog - What Does The Prayer Really Say?] Wherein Fr. Z muses about political impact of today's terror ...: This kind of ethics tends to be characterised by moral absolutism for the community to which it applies (such as Islamic ethics), consequentialism (the end is always justified by the means), and occasionally legalism (the law determines what is moral). It is a form of relativism but avoids absolute relativism (which really has no unifying social application, and is thus hard to apply in politics or law).

[The Barr Code] A Majority, If You Can Keep It | The Barr Code: The famous octogenarian was asked what form of governing structure the Constitutional Convention then meeting behind closed doors had decided upon - “a Republic or a Monarchy?”– Franklin famously replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

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