Some time ago, I wrote about whether or not health care workers should be allowed to withhold services or treatment due to moral or religious beliefs. My belief remains that health care providers should not be allowed to assert their own morality on to the patient — as long as the patient has expressed informed [...]
Among conservative evangelicals there has often been a subtle argument that in order to defeat Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, Americans must adopt the same religious fervor seen in our enemies. The most overt display of this philosophy was seen recently in Jesus Camp, where children’s minister Becky Fischer remarked: “I want to see young people [...]
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed S.1927 – The Protect America Act. The act passed early Saturday morning by the Senate gives the president unfettered power to surveil any person, or persons, within the United States as long as he ‘believes’ that his is also surveilling someone outside the country as well. The [...]
I had trouble sleeping last night; so enraged about my previous post that I just ended up laying in bed trying to relax and fall asleep. Around 4:00 I finally started to drift off and I noticed an odd sensation heat and fur pressed against my face. I opened my eyes to see this, and [...]
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This evening, the Democrat controlled Senate voted to give Mr. Bush unprecedented powers of surveillance. In a vote of 60-28 — in the middle of the night — they decided to cave in to the fear that this administration has bullied the American people with for the past six years. As [...]
Recently proto virtual-world Second Life banned in-world gambling using it’s native currency, Linden Dollars. This really shouldn’t have come as a shock to anyone, given the government’s recent war against online gambling. Linden Labs, who administers Second Life, could not take the chance that the feds would come and seize their business. States have lobbied [...]
