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From the Land of the Magna Carta: Filming Muslim proselytizers in Jolly Old England earns you a loud, angry death threat delivered in broad daylight on a public street in front of a policeman to no consequence. Religious zealots fear nothing apparently. Christians did the same thing in a Muslim neighborhood in Dearborn recently. The police arrested them though.
No one will sell sodium thiopental to American states for use in executions: Hmm...sounds like a "business opportunity" for someone out there.
Just a few weeks' worth of light meditation can change the structure of your brain: Exercises for your brain.
The Mexican revolution of 1910-1920: Nothing at all like the one that's going on there now, unfortunately.
Kalamazoo is a "pinnacle of educational achievement in Michigan" says NG blogger: Well yes, but as the blog post mentions, having a group of "anonymous millionaires" foot the bill for the post-secondary education of all Kazoo high-school grads sure does help though, doesn't it? Still it's good news of sorts.
The class-warfare aspect of the immigration debate: "Opponents could be dismissed instead of debated with. After all, who are you going to believe in a political debate, a truck-driver or a professor?" And who is going to be hurt more by the immigration of a vast underclass of low or unskilled workers? Professors, media stars, big-shot lawyers, and transnational corporations or factory workers, carpenters or secretaries? [emphasis added]
Would we be safer if people were required to report odd behavior or signs of mental illness to the state?
"In short, [William] Galston wants a system that compels Americans to keep a close eye on their odd relatives, friends, neighbors, students, and employees, reporting them to the authorities when their strange ideas escalate into 'a delusional loss of contact with reality.' That distinction may prove hard to draw."
