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...real cost to the court’s credibility, its integrity and the rule of law.” Amid all of their hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over the perceived disregard for “precedent,” the Times, however, never bothered to defend the procedure whose prohibition they bewail...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: First, Do No Harm | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...stigma of atheism is to disappear, however, atheists must have the courage to defend what they believe. And, as Richard Dawkins puts it, they must work to raise the public consciousness to the enormous prejudice that many atheists face everyday...

Author: By Jimmy Y. Li | Title: Coming Out Of The (Atheist) Closet | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...humanism is only one of the many ethical ways of life that atheists may follow. It is up to each individual to explain, and if need be, defend his or her own secular philosophy. Only when more atheists stand and speak up for their beliefs will people begin to shed their erroneous assumptions about atheism and decry bigotry against atheists. One can only hope that the “Pissed Catholic Mother” is of a dying breed...

Author: By Jimmy Y. Li | Title: Coming Out Of The (Atheist) Closet | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...this context, moderate Democrats who had been initially inclined to soft-pedal their support for gun control might find it in their interest to defend the principle more forcefully. "Conceivably, the Supreme Court in Parker could do for gun-control advocates what Roe v. Wade did for pro-life advocates," says Robert J. Spitzer, political scientist at SUNY Cortland and author of The Politics of Gun Control. "It could be a catalyzing event." Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would have to reassure the political center that they supported modest forms of gun control, but Democrats would be freer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forced into a Gun Debate | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...Blaming Bush for the failures at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is a bit unfair, and I am not one to defend him. There isn't a veteran out there who doesn't know that the military health-care system was a mess long before Bush became President. The blame for Walter Reed must rest primarily on the shoulders of the Army, whose policy of hiding problems rather than correcting them finally caught up with it. Jim Kindred, Chief Warrant Officer Four Army National Guard (ret.), CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bidding Adieu to France | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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