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...course, it's a bit more complicated than that because of the funky nature of AIG's insurance. Other types of insurance do not carry the same risks because when one claim pays out, it does not snowball. AIG's insurance on foreclosures and other defaults is not like insurance for accidents and disasters; while earthquakes in California are not correlated with earthquakes in New York, foreclosures are spiraling out of control together, fueled by a widespread recession...
Some cootie-phobic students’ wishes are coming true: Many public schools are reverting to single-sex classrooms where boys and girls are segregated. Supporters of the 445 such classrooms nationwide insist that separating the two sexes will allow students to learn better. For the most part, they claim that females will be more likely to speak up in a classroom where there are no males and that males will focus more on learning and less on showing off to the girls by causing trouble. In general, we are in favor of innovative education methods. Yet reverting to single...
...time when we need greater unity.” A senior U.S. cardinal called it a “sad victory of politics over science and ethics.” Others, many of whom support stem cell research, responded with particular fervor to Obama’s claim that he was putting science before politics. The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer called the address an “outrage” and “morally unserious in the extreme...
...Some promoters of this folly claim that their stake in its reinstatement consists of the elevation of our public discourse by giving both sides of any issue a fair trial in the public square. This is indeed a noble pursuit. Certain hypocrisies, however, expose the true motives of the doctrine’s supporters...
...domination by the right wing. Indeed, one never sees liberals calling for the Fairness Doctrine to be applied to the opinion page of the New York Times, MSNBC, or the blogosphere; the dearth of right-wing commentary in these outlets is not a mere coincidence. Moreover, one cannot even claim that the justification for this selectivity is the distinction between editorial and news content, for the reactionary bloviators of talk radio make no bones about their political opinions...