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Alex Pfeiffer The Daily Caller 6/26/2015 …Thomas’ dissent focused on the idea of negative rights, “As one later commentator observed, ‘[L]iberty in the eighteenth century was thought of much more in relation to ‘negative liberty’; that is, freedom from, not freedom to, freedom from a number of social and political evils, including arbitrary government power,’” […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: "disparate impact claims", 1968 Fair Housing Act, due process, gay marriage, human dignity, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, same sex marriage, slavery | Category: Civil rights, Racism, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Bob Schieffer Face the Nation CBS News 7/28/2013 What can be said about the Anthony Weiner story that hasn’t been said before? Actually, several things. One: It is not funny, it is sickening. Two: It is important. The mayor of New York is not only the most powerful municipal post in America, but because New […] July 28th, 2013 | Tags: Anthony Weiner, Feminism, Huma Abedin, human dignity, morals, Peg Brunda, power, sexual predators | Category: corruption, Elections, Media, New York, Politicians, Social networking websites | Comments are closed
Eminent bioethicist Leon Kass on the dangers of a world increasingly indifferent to matters of human dignity. Sohrab Ahmari The Wall Street Journal 4/19/2013 …Dr. Kass says his critics misunderstand the role of repugnance in his thinking. “It’s not that repugnance is always right,” he says. “There was once repugnance at interracial marriage, and there […] April 20th, 2013 | Tags: abortion, Boston Marathon, cloning, Columbine, Darrell Scott, evil, genetic engineering, human dignity, infanticide, Kermit Gosnell, Leon Kass, morals, psychopharmacology | Category: Ethics, Human Rights, legislation, Medicine, Michelle Obama, Politics, Progressives, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
“The evil in this world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” ~Albert Camus Brady Boyd Conservative Daily News 8/28/2011 I was born in San Francisco, grew up in Marin County just 30 minutes away and now live in San Francisco. […] August 28th, 2011 | Tags: government welfare, human dignity, Josef Stalin, liberalism, welfare state | Category: Entitlements, Government programs, Politicians, Progressives, Socialism | Comments are closed
Mike Lester Rome News Tribune via AEEC 12/30/2009 Click to view at full size. H/T Jimmy Z Zulz, Facebook January 15th, 2011 | Tags: autonomy, freedom, human dignity, independence, Janet Napolitano, sovereignty | Category: 4th Amendment, Department of Homeland Security, Humor, Progressives, terrorism | Comments are closed
William Jacobson Legal Insurrection 11/30/2010 In response to a ” a dear friend who runs a large charitable foundation” and who branded the tea party movement “a group of racists, xenophobes and bigots,” Rabbi Shmuley writes in The Jerusalem Post, Why the Tea Party resonates with human dignity: Lost in the debate about the morality […] November 30th, 2010 | Tags: human dignity, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Category: Government, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
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