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So, Danny wants a bit of background and explanation on class actions and the reforms just passed, and can’t get a straight answer from the media and/or the politicians. That’s a fair request, and since I’m not [...]

Well, sorta. Like I alluded to earlier, Congress passed some Class Action Reform legislation about a week and a half ago. Proponents say it’s going to get rid of (some of? most of?) the inequities in the class action system, while opponents say it’s going to cause all sorts of bad things [...]

Perhaps never in the history of the United States has there been so many people mobilized in such a large, organized and systematic way, to do so little. Most analysts believe that the religious right is the group most responsible for President Bush’s reelection and the Republican Party’s solid victory. And yet they elected these [...]

Now, see, Mike — this is why you don’t write well-reasoned and largely correct posts to start off a debate — nuthin’ happens! Hard to have a discussion when the main point of contention is just how much I agree with you… *grin*
That said, I do think I have a slightly different spin [...]

Copied straight off of the front page of NYTimes.com:
“Bush Presses Putin on Rollback of Democratic Reforms By ELISABETH BUMILLER 4:21 PM ET: Both leaders also said today that they had agreed that North Korea and Iran should not have nuclear weapons. “
Does anyone else find this headline hilarious, or is it just me? Isn’t it [...]

Capital punishment is wrong. It is immoral, it goes against the basic principals upon which our judicial system was founded, it is cruel, it is bad for society, it is bad for victims’ families, and it should have no place in a society that claims to be modern, civil, or Christian.
First of all, capital punishment [...]

The press and the public have been pretty rough on Barry Bonds lately over his alleged steroid use. There have been suggestions that he make his test results public, that he take lie detector tests, that he do all sorts of things to finally answer the question about whether or not he has used or [...]

So, looks like this conversation has petered out for now, although I’ll probably pick it up again at some point. For now, I would encourage all of you to check out Hiren’s comments, if you haven’t already, and to participate in his informal poll about intellectual discrimination.

During the Cold War, the United States military was designed to deter a Soviet invasion, in conjunction with NATO, and to thwart communist expansion into the third world. Over time, the relative importance of these missions shifted as did the specific concepts of what force makeup would best accomplish those goals, but at least the [...]

There has been much discussion in the Warning Track and here regarding the general proposition that academic institutions are not liberally biased despite the uncontroverted evidence that a significant majority of professors vote Democrat.
Two general arguments have been proffered to refute this assertion: 1) proponents of the liberal academia theory cannot provide evidence linking the [...]