December 2011
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Latest establishment/media smears against Ron Paul →
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1. If Ron Paul wins Iowa, it doesn’t matter, nor does the Iowa caucus; but who gets 2nd and 3rd matters a great deal. 2. Ron Paul is a racist, even though among blacks he is polling HIGHER than all the other GOP candidates. 3. “No true patriot should support Ron Paul,” says Dick Morris, even though Ron Paul’s top three donors are the active duty men and women of the US Army, US Air...
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Blowback is Real
I found a very good article that tries to explain the concept of “blowback,” something that Ron Paul has been trying to talk about for a while now. The article quoted an exchange between Ron Paul, Wendell Goler and Rudy Giuliani during a 2007 presidential debate. Ron Paul was asked why he opposed foreign interventionism and his response was in light of 9/11:
Paul: Have you ever read...
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mrs-annie-odair asked: Why shouldn't women strive to do anything they want, though, including things that traditionally have been done by men? I mean, just because something has been traditionally done by a man doesn't mean that it's wrong for a woman to try to do it. If that were true, then it would be wrong for women to go to college, get a job, or do anything other than being a stay-at-home mom....
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mrs-annie-odair asked: I see that the article you just posted (titled "What Women Need") is written by a woman who's against feminism. Are you yourself against feminism? If so, then why do you think it's a bad thing for women to fight for equality and an end to patriarchy?
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What Women Need →
Frederica Mathewes-Green in her article titled “What Women Need” explains why abortion remains a heated issue in feminism. A former feminist herself, she brings an inside perspective, of sorts. Her argument is that feminists sought to be equal to men with respect to having a career and having a promiscuous sex-life. Pregnancy, obviously, would put a hindrance to that. Abortion,...
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If you want to know the TRUTH about Ron Paul's... →
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Entire sections of these newsletters are being taken entirely out of context. Sentences are completely cut off to make statements appear racist with no context to them.
It may be hard to believe that the passages you’ve seen over and over could be taken out of context, but when you read them the way they were originally written it’s pretty clear that they were.
I have known about...
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Sickening Injustice
The pretrial Article 32 hearing for Bradley Manning ended. He’ll most certainly receive a court marshal. I think it’s fair to say he’ll most likely receive life in prison. He could technically get the death penalty. There’s still a large question remaining, however: how exactly did his alleged leak of hundreds of thousands of secret documents, logs and at least one video,...
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Ron Paul's Foreign Policy is Insane?
I just wanted to narrow in a specific section of the exchange I quoted earlier today between Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann. There’s something incredibly insane here that absolutely needs to be pointed out:
Bachmann: Can I respond? And the problem would be the greatest under-reaction in world history if we have an avowed madman who uses that nuclear weapon to wipe nations off the face of...
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Facts Sure Are Annoying
Remember how during the last debate in Iowa Ron Paul got into a heated exchange with Michelle Bachmann over foreign policy? And remember how Michelle Bachmann said that we have evidence that Iran is within months of obtaining nuclear weapons they plan on using against neighboring nations and against us? And remember how crazy old Ron Paul said that wasn’t true? And remember how Michelle...
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A Foreign Policy of Nonintervention
Having just finished watching the latest debate between the Republican presidential candidates I have to admit; I think this is the most frustrated I’ve been so far. The main source of frustration for me was during the exchanges over the foreign policy debate. I’m not sure why I was so surprised, really. It’s not like any of the candidates positions have changed. They were...
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Are Colleges or Businesses Responsible for Fixing... →
I read an interesting article recently that asked a good question:
With an 8.6 percent unemployment rate and 3.4 million job openings, there’s a clear mismatch between the kinds of jobs available and the skills job-seekers actually have. But who is responsible for bridging the gap for college graduates: schools or employers?
Fantastic point. Why are there 3.4 million job openings if 8.6...
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“In my experience, students have been taught to place way too much importance on...”
– Cal Newport
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Plan B Redux
A user here on Tumblr, dellaphine, reblogged my post on the Plan B pill. She apparently did not like what I had to say:
Your flippant regard for what it takes to raise a child is, in my opinion, disgusting. It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars and 18+ years to take care of another living human being. Your flippant regard for the health risks of pregnancy is disgusting.
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Plan B? →
I read a rather disappointing article on the morning-after pill recently. I say it was disappointing mainly because of the tone of the article; it was so positive and so flippant about the use of the pill. It was as yawn-worthy as taking a mild pain killer for a headache; you’re just getting rid of an unwanted symptom. There were a few things that struck, one of which being in the first...
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Is #Occupy Student Debt Overhyped? →
If you listen to the cries of my generation in the #Occupy protests you’ll hear talk about the crushing student loan debt. College costs keep rising, students keep accumulating more and more debt and jobs just aren’t there. But is all this talk a little overhyped? Here’s a quote from an interesting article that asked just that:
In a recent story in The New York Times, Judith...
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Learning by Doing →
I read an article recently about how Harvard Business School is trying something new:
Forget about MBA programs stuck in a 20th-century model of class lectures and theoretical case study analysis: Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria is championing an experimental first-year course called Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership, which takes an innovative learning-by-doing approach that...
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The Entitlement of #Occupy →
I feel somewhat redundant, constantly posting thoughts on the #Occupy movement. I most certainly don’t want to be boring in my subject choice. I’ll make a deal: when #Occupy stops posting thoughts or quotes that make them look incredibly stupid I’ll stop calling them out. Deal? Deal.
Here is an article that, no joke, asks if joining the #Occupy protests is a better choice than...
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#Occupy what? →
I read an article from the New Yorker recently on the origins and future of the #Occupy movement. It was an interesting read and one I had been hoping to find. I wanted to see, from the inside, how and why all of this started. The article had many quotes from Kalle Lasn and Micah White of Adbusters on the beginnings of the movement. In a lot of ways the article simply verified a lot of what I had...
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What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering →
Here’s a rather interesting article about the current state of law school. I pulled out some of the most insane quotes. What’s sad is that I think the same things can be said of higher education in general:
“What they taught us at this law firm is how to be a lawyer,” says Dennis P. O’Reilly, who went through the program last year, and attended the George Washington University School...
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“Many people try to do too much because they’re worried they might miss doing...”
– Leo Babauta
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femmewave-deactivated20120205 asked: Darwinism actually states that the survival of the species depends on being social. Equally, I would argue that from a biological perspective, homosexuality could be a clever form of population control, as finite resources means we cannot reproduce infinitely. What do you think about that?
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intheshadowofyggdrasil asked: Homosexuality doesn't have a evolutionary standpoint when it is observed in over 400 species of animals? Fruit flies have a "gay gene" and if that's not a genetic standpoint, I don't know what is. See "The Johnny Depp Effect," the fact that "Homosexuality" does not mean "Not bearing children," and the group benefit of homosexuals as...