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Thu 16 Oct, 2008

What is Censorship?

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Yesterday I participated in a televised panel discussion on censorship, related to a program sponsored by our public library to promote reading. I was predictably the voice most in favor of censorship because I promoted the public discourse about what materials should be available in our communities and which should not. To me, such public discourse is not censorship, but the free application of the democratic process. Continue reading

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Fri 10 Oct, 2008

UK’s Slide Down the Sexual Slippery Slope

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The largest teacher’s union in the UK wants to remove the law making it illegal for a teacher to have sex with a student who is of the age of consent. Is this fairness under the law, or is it a slippery slope that may lead to abuse? How reasonable is the slippery slope argument? Continue reading

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Wed 1 Oct, 2008

Cheaters Never Prosper

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Ok, “cheaters never prosper” is a cliche. But so is “every law was meant to be broken,” yet we hear this saying much more often – in word or idea. Our country is currently suffering from the greedy cheating of people associated with the Annie Mae and Freddie Mac companies. In 2002 we heard about a number of scholars who had plagiarized or otherwise misrepresented themselves and their scholarly work… Continue reading

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