Politics

PC Morons

When a Canadian police officer teaching about appropriate attitudes towards women comes under fire for suggesting that some cultures disrespect women, or a British schoolmaster loses his job for suggesting that assimilation of immigrants causes less division than encouraging multiple cultures to retain their distinctive identities in a single location, I wonder if we (Western,

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Justice O’Connor Retires

After a long career in serving our country, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is retiring. It will be very interesting to see who is nominated – and who is confirmed – to replace Justice O’Connor. A more conservative replacement could make a lot of 5-4 decisions swing the other way, while another moderate would preserve the

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The End is Near, of Intelligent Life, Anyway

A friend, who is a grad student at a major, well-respected university – names of student and school withheld, for reasons which will soon be obvious – reports that a student in a class she T.A.’s asked for a word definition during an exam. The word: “monogamy.” Shocked, my friend asked the student if he

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