The Folly of Pacifism
Pacifism is the position that states that one should not oppose violent aggression with the most effective means of opposing it - i.e., force.
December 28 2007 | Anti-war | No Comments »
Archive for December, 2007
Judge Imposes Additional Sleep Penalties On Libby
Los Angeles Judge Lance Ito has requested former White House official Scooter Libby be asked to serve additional “sleep time” on top of the already hefty thirty month sentence imposed by Ito’s California court.
Citing “occasionally successful correctional findings” spotlighted in a Swiss study on sleep penalties, Judge Ito ordered the Libby jury, which has officially recessed, to reconvene at his Bel Air home this Friday evening to discuss the imposition of sleep penalties in the Libby case.
“I think it’s certainly bizarre, said Austrian skier Heinz Twist, who had intended only to visit Hollywood for a three day vacation before a sherrif’s deputy requested he serve on the Libby jury. “I don’t dislike America, or Judge Ito, but I’d really rather get back home to my family in Austria.”
Other jurors expressed similar frustrations. Lawrence Libby, who is the defendant’s brother, and was also forced to serve on the jury which convicted the Vice President’s former Chief of Staff of nineteen counts of perjury, said “I don’t want to go. But I will go. I want to see Judge Ito’s house.”
Regarding the odd choice of sleep penalties in the Libby case, Judge Ito commented, “The Swiss don’t send people to jail; they send them to sleep. The end result is there’s far less prison-overcrowding, and generally when people wake up, so much time has gone by that they forget they’ve committed crimes altogether.”
In other news, more on atheism.
December 18 2007 | George Bush | No Comments »
George Reisman and Dishonesty in the Abortion Debate
Seeing a human being where there is none and consequently murder where there is none, serves to destroy the lives of women, and of families, who cannot afford the burden of an unwanted extra child, which they are nonetheless forced to accept because the possibility of abortion is denied them.
Thus stated George Reisman, Pepperdine University Professor Emeritus of Economics.
If George Reisman had stated that the unborn child was not human, that would be an honest debate. But by stating that the unborn child is not human, he reveals himself to be not only the worst kind of propagandist - dishonest - but also ignorant of basic biology.
For a more educated look at the arguments for and against abortion, click here.After all, the species of the unborn human is has never been in question. The personhood of the unborn human is subject to debate, as is the right of the unborn to be in the mother’s womb.
December 02 2007 | Abortion | No Comments »