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Sunday September 15, 2013 · 11:46 AM PDT

2013/09/15 · 11:46

DarkSyde's diaries, most recently Obamacare 303, have done a great job laying out the hows, whys, and wherefores of the insurance exchanges the ACA created. Unfortunately, the comments section had a few gems of unhelpfulness, and I want to talk about the issues they raise.

Stay tuned for some anger, and follow me below the Sigil of a Million Names.

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Tuesday April 20, 2010 · 6:08 PM PDT

2010/04/20 · 18:08

Blackwaterdog's diary used some strong language, and received some strong responses. I'm going to take a crack at the general issue, but with what I consider a milder argument.

The argument goes like this: in the American voting system, you should support the candidate more likely to act on your behalf, even if you don't think he's doing anything about it right now.

See below for reasons why.

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Thursday July 03, 2008 · 4:52 PM PDT

2008/07/03 · 16:52

The American Family Association has apparently decided to boycott McDonald's for, well, sponsoring an ad during a gay pride parade. You can find out more at http://boycottmcdonalds.com/

But, I have just one question.

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Thursday September 13, 2007 · 3:03 PM PDT

2007/09/13 · 15:03

Guiliani attacks Democratic health plans as 'socialist'.

"We've got to do it the American way," Giuliani said during a town hall forum in Rochester, New Hampshire. "The American way is not single-payer, government-controlled anything. That's a European way of doing something; that's frankly a socialist way of doing something."

Old news, but today it raised a pair of questions that I'd like to ask of any conservative who agrees with Guiliani:

First, do you think that the poor should be entitled to police protection? In other words, should your tax dollars go toward protecting the poor to the same degree they protect the rich?

Second, if George W. Bush instituted a draft tomorrow with the same high standards for recruitment (that is, anyone who could pick up a rifle), would you go serve your country? In other words, would you be willing to risk your life for the sake of every American, rich or poor, entrepreneur or "welfare queen"?

The Power of Frames: Abortion

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Wednesday June 20, 2007 · 6:01 PM PDT

2007/06/20 · 18:01

I am not a doctor or a medical professional. I only know what I've read. But I know misinformation when I see it, and one glaring example of this is the oft-repeated mantra of the opponents of abortion rights: "life begins at conception". I'm not going to argue the usual opposite, which is that "life begins at birth".

I'm going to argue that life doesn't "begin" at all.

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Does life begin, or only differentiate?

148 votes Vote Now!

Does life begin, or only differentiate?

Life begins at conception

9 votes

Life begins at birth

21 votes

Life begins when God breathes the breath of life into an embryo

3 votes

Life begins at some other point of the fertilization process

11 votes

Life continues and differentiates itself from its parents

104 votes

Dear Disgruntled Voter...

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Monday February 26, 2007 · 7:44 AM PST

2007/02/26 · 07:44

I know you. I've seen you. You are the disgruntled American voter. You are the man or woman staring at your television, reading a roll call of Republican scandals and broken campaign promises. You are watching mudslinging attack ads from both sides each time the election cycle comes around. You are seeing a failed war, a botched Presidency, and a rubber-stamp Congress that has just been replaced. And you are asking yourself, "what should I feel about this?"

The first thing you should feel is disgust. But let me tell you why you should not do what disgust suggests, which is abandoning the political process.

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