Month / November 20, 2009

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  • Feeding Frenzy #1

    The voters of Maine took away the right to marry, as the tyranny of the majority strikes again. It’s truly disturbing that fundamental human rights are being decided by popular opinion. Let’s meet the most prominent opponent of Homo sapiens marriage: Maggie Gallagher. Gallagher is the president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which…

  • The Importance of Gubernatorial Elections

    Recently, New Jersey and Virginia played host to the only two gubernatorial elections of 2009. Some pundits believe that these elections were a referendum of Barack Obama while others argued the results were simply following historical trends. The assumption that the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey were a referendum of Barack Obama was…

  • Emily and Kasper: On Abortion

    Kasper stepped into the aisle of the small plane to St. Louis, holding his laptop case close as he slid down the aisle to find his seat.  One of the last to board the plane, Kasper wasn’t surprised to see two other people already in his row.  He was shocked, however, to see that Emily…

  • Church and State

    If God were to offer political commentary, I—and I’d have to imagine most everyone else—would be hard pressed not to tune in. As an end in and of itself, politics is about as engaging, and important, as any particular thing can be: it is the dialogue through which society organizes itself, the discussion through which…

  • Issue 11.3