Word: logical
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SOME BISHOPS HAVE SAID PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS SHOULD NOT RECEIVE COMMUNION. BUT THEY DIDN'T EXTEND THAT CALL TO DEATH-PENALTY PROPONENTS. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS LOGIC? If you look at the history of the church on moral issues, there's always been great emphasis on anything to do with sex. But it's gotten easier; the Pope has taken leadership on the death penalty and put it up there with other pro-life issues. And well, you know, the bishops try to be obedient to the Pope, so that's a real calling card...
...Alicante on Jan. 30, then last week. "It looks as if ETA is impeding Batasuna's political moves," says Patxi Zabaleta, leader of Basque nationalist group Aralar and a former defense lawyer for ETA prisoners. But Batasuna refuses to criticize its armed brethren. The attack "responds to the perverse logic of this conflict and it shows that a solution is needed," says Pernando Barrena, a Batasuna spokesman. Alberto Surio, political commentator at San Sebastián's daily El Diario Vasco, says the attacks show that the terrorists "want to negotiate from a position of strength, to establish their...
...Tehran is simply following the strategic logic that drove the proliferation of nuclear weapons over the past half-century: The Soviet Union saw acquiring nuclear weapons as a matter of survival because the U.S. had built and used them to decisively tip the balance in a conventional conflict. France, Britain and later China acquired them because they sought strategic independence from the U.S. and the Soviets respectively. Israel built nukes as the ultimate strategic trump card in the face of the numerical strength of surrounding Arab armies; India pursued them because its prime strategic rival was not Pakistan, but nuclear...
Following typical horror film logic, David and Emily leave their New York City apartment for a big creepy house in a desolate upstate New York town. Relocating away from the city is supposed to help Emily purge her memories of the tragedy. Lo and behold, shortly after arriving at their new place, things start to get worse...
...Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School Dan W. Brock challenged the logic behind Romney’s comments yesterday, saying that Romney’s distinction between types of cell development is arbitrary...