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The NRA Has Lost Its Right to a Voice on Gun Laws
The aftermath of Newtown and the long awaited response from the NRA gave me the chance to reflect on the ideas of a natural “moral sense” about which philosophers have long argued. Thinkers like Hutcheson, Hume, and Hobbes all debated whether man was born with a sixth “sense” that allowed him to detect the “moral” […]
Local News: Shilling for the GOP
The threat of our first big snow storm of the season had me tuning in to our local news at 10 pm last night. While there was certainly some of that “I love a snow day” stuff that all students, administrators, and teachers feel when the barometric pressure over Kansas starts falling, I am also […]
The Grumblings 