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...firearms." This was a turnabout from the government's long-standing reading of the amendment's scope as being limited to state militias, which has reflected a 1939 Supreme Court decision. As a result, federal prosecutors are being swamped by court motions from defendants who quote Ashcroft in their argument for having federal gun charges against them dismissed. Among them: convicted American Taliban John Walker Lindh...
While Howell points out that nine other states have no income tax, Widmer of the Taxpayers Foundation says this argument is misleading. Six of those states compensate with higher real-estate and sales taxes, and the other three (Nevada, Alaska and Wyoming) benefit from rich natural resources or gambling revenue...
Mansfield says he believes discussion and debate in the public sphere can help professors bring innovative approaches to their scholarly arguments. “You can, in preparing a political argument, learn things you wouldn’t learn if you were only trying to answer other professors,” he says, “so it forces you to sharpen your thinking and come to the point in a way that scholarly thinking cannot...
With regard to the second contention, the argument seems to imply that all those who believe that no state’s foundational ethic should be exclusive and ethnic in nature, and act upon that belief, are guilty of something morally equivalent to “effective” anti-Semitism, because they are “delegitimizing” that state. One can hold this belief without prejudice to which community is involved: To say that Israel should not be a “Jewish” state is not effectively anti-Semitic any more than saying India should...
...Gomes isn’t content to offer an apolitical reflection on this question; he has an agenda. After quoting a verse from Jeremiah in which the Lord delights in “love, justice, and righteousness,” Gomes goes on to assume without argument that a war in Iraq would run contrary to these values—as though he has found, along with the case of Nazi Germany, an obvious tension between commitment to God and commitment to country. That conclusion does not follow in any straightforward way from the Scripture Gomes cites, and to lump...