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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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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/12/14/personal-responsibility-and-the-nanny-state/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Personal responsibility and the nanny state'>Personal responsibility and the nanny state</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/14/it%e2%80%99s-a-woman%e2%80%99s-world-%e2%80%93and-much-more-in-iceland/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland'>It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland</a></li>
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		<title>Play the game</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/02/play-the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free expression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video games, value, and free speech The Supreme Court will soon hear a case concerning the state of California’s right to regulate the sale of violent video games to minors.  Writing for The Washington Post, game designer Daniel Greenberg thinks that the First Amendment should protect video games.  His argument relies on the value of [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/16/fight-fire-with-fire/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fight fire with fire'>Fight fire with fire</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/10/fish-on-the-first-continued/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fish on the First, Continued'>Fish on the First, Continued</a></li>
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		<title>Are firemen like doctors?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/20/are-firefighters-like-doctors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How deep does the analogy go?  Not deep enough to justify universal health care. At the Washington Post blog, Ezra Klein discusses the parallel between firefighters letting someone’s house burn because he didn’t pay $75 for fire insurance—which happened a few weeks ago in a rural area of Tennessee that doesn’t guarantee fire protection—and letting [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/11/24/subsidizing-spiritual-healing/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Subsidizing spiritual healing'>Subsidizing spiritual healing</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/26/more-on-healthcare-and-choice/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: More on healthcare and choice'>More on healthcare and choice</a></li>
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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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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/06/15/should-president-obama-do-more-re-iranian-elections/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Obama and the Iranian election'>Obama and the Iranian election</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/13/i-know-not-for-whom-i-vote/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: I know not for whom I vote'>I know not for whom I vote</a></li>
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		<title>Clotheslined!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/12/clotheslined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should people be allowed to hang their laundry out to dry? The BBC has an amusing perspective on a trend in the United States toward foregoing the use of mechanical driers in favor of drying clothes on the line. Outdoor clothesline drying is prohibited by many landlords and community associations on the basis that it [...]


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		<title>Who are you, Israel?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/11/who-are-you-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communitarianism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli cabinet has approved a motion requiring new citizens to declare their loyalty to a “Jewish and democratic state.”  The controversial amendment to the citizenship law has been denounced as discriminatory by some. […]Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi said that Israel is &#8220;discriminative in its policies and laws against all who are not Zionists.&#8221; [...]


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		<title>Guest Post: The dignity of the prostitute</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/06/guest-post-the-dignity-of-the-prostitute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Human dignity&#8221; demands that we must (never) legalize prostitution Last week, a judge in Canada’s largest province struck down the country’s federal laws criminalizing prostitution.  Judge Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court ruled that prohibitions on prostitution infringed Canadians’ constitutional rights to freedom of expression and to security of the person.  If the decision [...]


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		<title>I don’t sanction that</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/30/i-don%e2%80%99t-sanction-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the United States has imposed sanctions on key Iranian officials for human rights abuses dating from the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the summer of 2009. The sanctions consist of travel bans and asset freezes. As far as diplomatic tools go, sanctions like these –small, targeted ones- are mostly symbolic in [...]


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		<title>The death penalty may be constitutional, but is it justified?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/the-death-penalty-may-be-constitutional-but-is-it-justified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court has refused to overturn the execution of a Virginia woman who conspired with two accomplices to murder her husband and stepson. The legal debate that has emerged around the case concentrates mostly on whether the woman, who is borderline mentally disabled, deserves a harsher sentence than her accomplices, who each [...]


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		<title>Should identity and politics ever mix?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/16/should-identity-and-politics-ever-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that France’s Senate has overwhelmingly approved banning Islamic full-body coverings. The heart of the issue is the integration of Muslim immigrants, who have been arriving in France and other European countries in large numbers for the last three decades but have often visibly failed to assimilate. Undoubtedly, the Paris riots of 2005 [...]


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