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The Voting Conundrum

Being that I’m a “does it have to be a box” sort of thinker, I’ve long struggled with how important voting is. Is majority rule actually the best way to do things?

Proposition 8, Health Care Reform – Unconstitutional? | The Faster Times

The thing that annoys me most about many tea-bag-partiers isn’t so much that they disagree–honest debate is expected, but that they so …

Fear and Loathing of the Right to Free Speech

The provisions in the first amendment protecting various freedoms hasn’t exactly been working how it was intended.

A Judgement on the Gay Marriage Thing

You know, I like to think of myself as a fair-minded individual. In the past few years, courts, and now state legislatures, have begun approving of same-sex marriages. Given the numbers of conservative-minded folk in the United States, is it no wonder that there has been a vocal backlash of sorts? I have to say, I’m totally amazed that this is really an issue at all.