Month: March 2006

Women and ‘Gendercide’

Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human’s beliefs and activities make sense in terms of his or her own culture. Six-thousand girls per day are mutilated in their genitals. 6-0-0-0. Meanwhile, 600,000...

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Madison, Liberty, and Executive Power

James Sensenbrenner asked the Justice Department a simple question: “Some have questioned whether President Carter’s signature on FISA in 1978, together with his signing statement, was an explicit renunciation of any claim...

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Dissenting Drums

[Crossed at Kos http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/26/192931/225] Every Friday, starting at Pioneer Square in Portland, OR – a group of people from Portland Peaceful Response Coalition, Portland’s No War Drum Corp,...

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