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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
Thinking about the election tomorrow, this quote jumped into my head and won’t go away. From where things stand right now, it seems almost a foregone conclusion that Barack Obama will be the next President of the United
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By taxing “the rich” to fund Obama’s pet projects, Obama does as most Democrats do in believing that they know better than I do what is and isn’t the right thing for me to buy.
Do I really need to go into the benefits of collective bargaining, and how it yields better prices when the purchasers cooperate?
Ayn Rand's "night watchman state" is a fantasy. It's not even an interesting one, not anymore.
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> resolved by judges.
And judges routinely make the mistake of believing that they should be the ones to solve them. The catch is, most of the time, if an issue is truly contentious, it doesn't actually belong in a court.
The job of a judge is a fairly simple one. "Say what the law is." Contentious issues normally only exist when there is no law or when people believe that the law needs to be something different. In neither case will saying what the law is resolve the conflict ( ... )
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> Is a fetus legally considered human?
This isn't hard. In a total vacuum of abortion law, the second question doesn't matter (though the answer is "no"), and the answer to the first depends on the law.
In general, a fetus is not, and has never been, considered a person under the law. This is evidenced by the fact that, in the law, when protections are assigned to the fetus, the fetus is called out separately by name. This special handling is a strong indicator that the fetus is not included in the general definitions for the rights of and crimes against people.
As to whether or not killing a fetus is murder, well, Michigan's MCL 750.322 considers it manslaughter. That's technically different than murder (MCL 750.316, 317), but probably close enough.
> Because all of them were better than nothing
Is any decision made by a court better than no decision ( ... )
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-Garran
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