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On this Independence Day weekend, let’s talk about Rights

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, Culture, Education, government, History, Progressive "Thought"Leave a comment

What do you think about when someone mentions "rights"?  Is the first thing that crosses your mind something like "abortion rights", or "voting rights"?  Or is it something like "unalienable rights", which is a phrase from the Declaration of Independence?  What does "unalienable" even mean?  First of all, here are some definitions of "rights" from …

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Progressives. This.Is.Who.They.Are.

On By rushbabe49In Culture, Health care, Progressive "Thought", Random Musings About Life2 Comments

Thanks to James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal (in his Best of the Web newsletter yesterday) for excerpting this "Pravda on the Hudson", AKA New York Times, Op-Ed, by someone called Todd May.  The title of the column is "Would Human Extinction be a Tragedy?"  Emphasis mine. One might ask here whether...it would...be a …

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