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		<title>Inconceivable!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/inconceivable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is fertility a health issue or a lifestyle choice? This month a health care refom advisory panel will meet to consider whether contraception should be offered free of charge as a form of preventative medicine, the AP reports. Healthcare reform of course poses many questions concerning how medical services are paid for and delivered. But, [...]


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		<title>Know your (state&#8217;s) rights</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/know-your-states-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal ran a piece recently about the current anti-Washington sentiment reviving an old debate over the 17th Amendment.  This Amendment, which provides for the direct election of US Senators, has been denounced by some Republicans.  A repeal of the law would involve appointing senators by state legislators. &#8220;People would be better off [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/04/is-there-a-states-rights-issue-in-the-affordable-care-act/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Is there a states&#8217; rights issue in the Affordable Care Act?'>Is there a states&#8217; rights issue in the Affordable Care Act?</a></li>
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		<title>Some election thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/some-election-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revolution will be televised After a midterm election which featured the largest pick-up of seats by any one party since 1948, most mainstream pundits have focused on the purely political slicing and dicing: is the Tea Party ascendant?  What does it mean for 2012?  How crazy is Rand Paul? But elections are also moments [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/30/the-ethics-of-the-house-ethics-committee/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The ethics of the House ethics committee'>The ethics of the House ethics committee</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/06/08/politicians-and-party/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Politicians and party'>Politicians and party</a></li>
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		<title>Fear and loathing redux</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/26/fear-and-loathing-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radley Balko at Reason magazine argues that the close association between democratic politics and crime policy results in a vicious cycle of fear-mongering, excessive incarceration, and intergenerational poverty. He cites a Boston Globe article that reveals a tendency for undue and irrational pessimism and fear among the population. I explored the problem of irrational fear [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/03/fear-the-quack/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fear the quack'>Fear the quack</a></li>
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		<title>Would you like a melting pot or a salad bowl?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/19/would-you-like-a-melting-pot-or-a-salad-bowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that multiculturalism has “utterly failed” amidst growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Germany. In the Netherlands, anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders was recently acquitted of discrimination and hate speech. Both of these mark serious departures from what was formerly the European consensus on multiculturalism. Given that immigration is both necessary and inevitable in [...]


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		<title>I am shocked and appalled</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/18/i-am-shocked-and-appalled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear and loathing in law and politics Risk-perception expert David Ropeik writes at Project Syndicate that nuclear energy remains controversial in Germany in the wake of Chancellor Merkel’s decision to extend the operating lives of the country’s nuclear plans. A 2006 BBC poll finds that in France some 56% of the public opposes nuclear energy, [...]


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		<title>Party with the animals</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/14/party-with-the-animals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week in California, a Green Party gubernatorial candidate was arrested for attempting to enter a debate she was not invited to.  Candidates were invited based on their showing in the polls, but the candidate, Laura Wells, thinks the polls are biased.  From her blog: The polls are a fraud against the voters. I [...]


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		<title>How to buy an election</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/13/how-to-buy-an-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean that it&#8217;s possible? With the November elections looming, campaign donations are heating up. Sharron Angle, Republican Senatorial candidate for Nevada, received $14 million in the last quarter alone, to give one example.  The topic of money in politics always raises the worry that a politician will “buy an election,” or that [...]


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		<title>You know you&#8217;re right</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/12/you-know-youre-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facts and opinion in a liberal democracy A recent video produced for the “10:10” campaign, which seeks to cut carbon emissions by ten percent a year for the next ten years, has come under intense criticism.  The video begins with an elementary school teacher explaining the 10:10 project to her class, and asking for her [...]


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		<title>Don&#8217;t worry (about the Constitution)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at The National Review, Jonah Goldberg criticizes the &#8220;creepy logic of many liberals today,&#8221; who believe legislators should not worry about the constitutionality of their laws during legislation, instead deferring such judgments to the courts.  This is an interesting question, but let us not exaggerate its importance.  Writes Goldberg: Does anyone, anywhere, think legislators should vote for [...]


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