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Pragmatism Please
There is no science, the study of which is more useful and commendable than the knowledge of the true interest of one's Country; and perhaps there is no kind of learning more abstruse and intricate, more difficult to acquire in any degree of perfection than this, and there fore none more generally neglected. Hence it is, that we every day find men in conversation contending warmly on some point in politics, which, altho' it may clearly concern them both, neither of them understand any more than they do each other. --Benjamin Franklin - 1729 Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. --David Hume - 1741
What does Brownback mean by "religious organizations" in this new law for Kansans?
Does he mean places like Catholic churches, schools and hospitals or is he including the wedding dress store, owned by a Christian, as well? I read the law (EO 15-50) and it's not clear to me. Maybe "religious organization" should have been spelled out in "Section 3: Definitions" but it's conspicuously missing from there.
5 AnswersPolitics6 years agoPOLL: Do you believe that Super PACs should be allowed to accept and spend unlimited amounts of money on political causes?
Please state your political affiliation if applicable.
3 AnswersPolitics6 years agoWhat do these three distinct entities have in common?
The Financial Services Act of 1999 repealed part of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, removing barriers in the market among banking companies, securities companies and insurance companies that prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and an insurance company.
The only thing I can think of that ties the three together is risk management. In fact, I suspect risk management takes president over our savings for the bank, our dividends/growth for the securities company an our health for the insurance company. Is there anything else they all have in common?
2 AnswersPolitics6 years agoIs this correct in Indiana, Arkansas, etc.? If a mixed race couple comes into my bakery and they want a wedding cake, I can't?
refuse service unless they want me to paint a picture of them on that wedding cake showing their blackness and whiteness?
Please help! I'm truly unclear on where to draw the line and please don't simply answer "It's about religious freedom, not discrimination" without explaining how your interpretation does not, in some cases, have the effect of discrimination.
I would very much like to understand how this works. Thanks.
11 AnswersLaw & Ethics6 years agoDo you enjoy being manipulated by cable news or does your confirmation bias keep you from seeing it for what it is?
If you don't watch cable news, you're answer won't be helpful but thanks for stopping by.
4 AnswersPolitics6 years agoIs Sony the victim in their decision to not release "The Interview" Their attorney, David Boies, was on...?
Meet the Press this morning arguing that it was the distributors (movie theaters) that whimped out, not Sony.
SECOND QUESTION if you're interested...
David Boies, lead counsel for Vice President Gore in the 2000 election case and counsel for the plaintiffs in the California Prop 8 case really tried to bring home the point that North Korea was the culprit. He used phrases like "state sponsored criminal act," "threat to national security," "state sponsored attack" and "national security threat." He was redirecting every question to that specific idea, much like a politician always tries to get to his stump in an interview.
Do you think Sony stands to get some money from the US Government if it's ruled a matter of National Security instead of Sony security of if it's ruled that the act was "State sponsored?" I'm not sure but David Boies wasn't there for the fun of it. He had a mission when he decided to be on MTP. Does anyone know?
4 AnswersPolitics6 years agoIs Sony the victim in their decision to not release "The Interview"?
Their attorney, David Boies, was on Meet the Press this morning arguing that it was the distributors (movie theaters) that whimped out, not Sony.
SECOND QUESTION if you're interested...
David Boies, lead counsel for Vice President Gore in the 2000 election case and counsel for the plaintiffs in the California Prop 8 case really tried to bring home the point that North Korea was the culprit. He used phrases like "state sponsored criminal act," "threat to national security," "state sponsored attack" and "national security threat." He was redirecting every question to that specific idea, much like a politician always tries to get to his stump in an interview.
Do you think Sony stands to get some money from the US Government if it's ruled a matter of National Security instead of Sony security of if it's ruled that the act was "State sponsored?" I'm not sure but David Boies wasn't there for the fun of it. He had a mission when he decided to be on MTP. Does anyone know?
2 AnswersLaw & Ethics6 years agoWill the US commit to the agreement by all 196 nations present at the climate change meeting in Peru or will it just be another Kyoto?
Many of these countries are going to need technical help while others are going to need humanitarian help. Some island nations are going to be underwater and we probably can't stop it.
Meanwhile, the prime producers of the carbon already in the atmosphere (US & Western Europe) are at odds with the current top producers of atmospheric carbon: China and India. We in the West already had our chance to pollute and they now want their turn to do the same. Fair is fair, right?
I live in the West but it seems to me the problems facing us today, logically speaking, need to be solved based on current carbon emmissions practices, not on what happened in the past. If China doesn't like it, they should look inward for the cause. No Western country stopped them from joining the Industrial Revolution. Those decisions were made within China.
What do you think?
6 AnswersPolitics6 years agoChris Rock asked me to take responsibility for my ancestors so were there German slave owners in America?
Link to the interview conducted last Sunday: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/1/chr...
12 AnswersPolitics6 years agoDo you believe the birth control pill was a major contributor to the advancement of women's economic freedom?
Five years after the introduction of the pill, 41 percent of “contracepting” women had a prescription, according to The Power of the Pill, a 2002 analysis by Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz. Today, four out of every five sexually active women in the U.S. have taken oral contraceptives at some point in their lives. As birth control became widely available, women began delaying marriage and investing in their education without fear of pregnancy or commitment to abstinence, which led to higher female employment rates and better careers. As of 2011, when the U.S. Department of Labor last released data, more than half of employed women worked in skilled professions. While factors such as feminism and antisexism laws also helped, the Harvard study found that the pill has had a singularly profound effect in advancing women’s economic freedom.
BloombergBusinessweek 12/04/2014: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-04/bi...
Original NBER paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7527.pdf
5 AnswersPolitics6 years agoIf we just made all the changing rooms, showers and restrooms coed, would that solve the transgender bathroom issue?
Would a transition like that be harder for men or for women?
9 AnswersPolitics7 years agoWhich one of these music players would you choose for your Android?
MediaHouse, UPnPlay, Skifta, ArkMC,
BubbleUPnP, Pixel Media, or 2Player 2.0.
My new wireless network bridge (Linksys RE6500) has wireless music playback capability and Linksys recommends the above listed players for DLNA streaming.
I'm also hoping to pick up the extensive music collection on my 3TB media server with my phone, and push that to the Linksys from within the same player as
well.
5 AnswersMusic & Music Players7 years agoDo you want to keep our net neutrality or do you want a two tier Internet where we get the slow tier?
The FCC makes the final decision but they are listening to the public before deciding. So, do you? Do you like the Internet we have now which is "net neutrality" or do you want the slow side of a two-tier Internet?
7 AnswersPolitics7 years ago
