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#4 Why do you vote how you vote? And how do you know you’re right? Why I don’t vote
Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons As 2011 comes to an end, I am reposting some of my favorite pieces of the year. In this post, I make some observations about voting as well as how we struggle to form objective opinions about the things which we vote on, and instead, simplify issues while jumping…
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#5 – Justification for favoring the death penalty and being pro life
As 2011 comes to an end, I am reposting some of my favorite pieces of the year. In this post, I discuss politics and views on life. Originally published September 19. Read a couple of interesting articles last week in the Washington Post. Both discuss the death penalty. The first article, “Like Rick Perry, most…
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Reaction to NCAA sanctions against Ohio State
I have been critical of the way in which Ohio State handled the tatoo scandal, and I said that Tressel needed to resign a month before he actually did it, so I’m not one to give the Bucks a free pass. That being said, I feel that giving the team a bowl ban for next…
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The death of Chris Hitchens
I was very saddened to learn this morning of the death of the great writer Christopher Hitchens. For over a year, I had paid close attention to his battle with cancer, knowing all along that it was going to be a fight which he would ultimately lose. The end came yesterday for the 62 year…
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Why both parties are so useless when it comes to fixing the economy
Throughout the last several weeks, I see a constant stream of news stories about the state of the economy of various European countries. The whole continent is in a crisis with over a dozen countries on the brink of having their credit ratings lowered. Cities all over the United States and across the world have…
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