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...Tenner's gently skeptical fascination with what he calls "the perversity of everyday objects and systems" seems unlikely to overturn the neo-utopianism of the Wired generation, that's all the more reason to attend closely to it. For though his history of technological "revenge effects" ranges freely over the past two centuries, most of his examples take a healthy dose of air out of today's overinflated enthusiasm with high tech...
Gnostic cosmologies would overturn biblical traditions. The God of the Old Testament became evil incarnate. For if Satan could tempt Jesus with earthly power and riches, did that not mean that the world was Satan's to give? In time, Jesus would be the spirit of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, giving Adam and Eve a chance to escape from their dastardly creator with a taste of the fruit of the tree of knowledge...
Keyes received the loudest applause of the afternoon after stating that his first act upon election would be to "restore the rights of the unborn child" and overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that now protects the legality of abortion...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Was it the wise protecting the wise? Asked to overturn Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's decision to protect the northern spotted owl, the Supreme Court denied the case without comment. At issue was whether some 6.8 million acres of federal lands in Oregon, Washington, and California could be classified as "critical habitat" by Secretary Babbitt under the Endangered Species Act without first filing environmental impact statements required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Backed by the local timber industry, lawyers for Douglas County in southwestern Oregon said Babbitt couldn't cut that corner. They sued the Interior...
Gingrich has changed the center of gravity. From Franklin Roosevelt onward, Americans came to accept the Federal Government as the solution to problems, a vast parental presence. Ronald Reagan preached that government was the problem, but his Administration focused mostly on the Evil Empire; it did not overturn the grand centralizing legacy of New Deal and Great Society. Newt Gingrich wants to reverse the physics, make American government truly centrifugal, with power flowing out of Washington, devolving to the states...