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"Human beings tend to assume that whatever group they happen to comprise is self-evidently the best, God's chosen ones -- and everyone else's equally passionately held belief that they are the chosen few is simply delusional. You'll never hear a crowd chanting, "They're Number One!"" (Posted in response to the caller on 2/14/12 who mentioned Pinker's book, 'The Better Angels of our Nature

Parents do not own their children, and therefore have no right to aggress against them. I should hope that in a free society, we would have the decency to defend the most helpless among us from the predations of their wards. For now, however, that job is sadly left to the state, just like so many other matters of interpersonal justice. Perhaps it would be better to focus on actual victims of state excess, and not the so-called ‘rights’ of petty aggressors to victimize their physical inferiors.

It seems in the United States we have gotten to the point where there are no more murders and we may instead focus on the Fashion Police! Compare what's considered "Indecent Exposure" AND read how people are doing 40 hours of "community service" for sagging pants...

MicCheckWallStreet, an offshoot of the Occupy movement, staged the demonstration at 5pm. The group's website declared that it is "time we declared independence from Citizens United" – citing the supreme court case which effectively ruled that corporations can make political contributions. A video posted to YouTube shows two people tossing the cash – which MicCheckWallStreet said was in $1 and $5 bills – out of a window above downtown Seattle. The group had signalled its intentions on its website, asking for donations to a wepay.com account.

FAIRFAX, Va. - A man charged with indecent exposure after two women said they saw him naked inside his own home was acquitted Wednesday by a Virginia jury.

Erick Williamson, 29, has argued since his October arrest that he should not be punished for being naked in the privacy of his own home.

John Bush, a local activist from Austin, Tx. was previously banned from speaking to Austin City Council for a year, previously. Finally, Council realizes they can't be dictators forever - and allow the man to speak. Ownage ensues.

A Santa Clara mosque held an Introduction to Politics program for some of the Muslim High School students in our Community. A representative from each of four political parties was invited to speak about the origins and philosophies of their party. Not being able to find an actual representative, I was invited to speak on behalf of the Libertarian Party. First, explain the non aggression principle. Second, apply it to a subject that affects the audience you’re talking to. I chose public school.

As awful as war is, it's still being fought by human beings, and they don't just check their humanity at the door. Sometimes, right in the heat of battle, sympathy and simple human kindness breaks through. Spontaneous truces occur when groups of soldiers decide they just can't take it anymore.
The result is a series of stories that you should bookmark for the next time you're in a bad mood.

WASHINGTON - Advocates of a Colorado campaign aimed at legalizing marijuana through the ballot box are directly targeting the most difficult voters to win over on the issue: parents. "Please, card my son," the billboard reads, which went up Wednesday across from the Denver Broncos' stadium and displays a father with his arm on his son's shoulder.