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To Judge or Not To Judge Mark Sanford

Writing for South Carolina’s Sun News, journalist Isaac Bailey offers us cutting commentary about how his State’s General Assembly recently failed to impeach governor Mark Sanford.

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A Lack of Judgment

What the lead-up to the Fort Hood massacre reveals about our culture

What happens when we reserve judgment?Last month, Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and wounded several others in a massacre at Fort Hood.

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Whatever Happened to Suzette Kelo?

What do a wasteland full of weeds, Pfizer, and the Supreme Court have in common? The answer is the power of eminent domain. In the 2005 case of Kelo v.

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The Alternative to Non-Discrimination Law

In my previous post I argued that non-discrimination laws were immoral. But you might still wonder what we can do about the many irrational employers who might discriminate in the workplace. Without such laws won’t many employers consider race and sex unfairly? Won’t there be businesses that choose not to hire certain individuals based on their sex, like women for instance? Or simply choose not to pay them as much as men?

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Campus Media Response: Thank Goodness Life is Fair

Drawing the line on study drug morality
The Yale Herald
Yale University

Madam—
In your article, "Drawing the line on study drug morality," the idea that “life isn’t fair” is often mentioned with regard to differences of intelligence, money, attention capacity, etc. If the simple fact of disparity is unfair, what then would constitute a fair life? What kind of equality would produce a just world? The implicit ideal in the “life isn’t fair” mantra is the idolization of equal condition.

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