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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
If biofuels mandates are a 'crime against humanity' than basically any action which doesn't minimize food prices is a crime against humanity.
Unless you are willing to make the totally supportable, but in my mind deeply morally wrong, argument that 'property is theft,' or an argument that we have an obligation to not value a commodity more than a poorer person, than this is an awful argument.
Past awful. It is awful the way the idiots who talk about 'post carbon' are awful.
If you want to argue that wealthy nations and wealthy people have a moral obligation to not let poorer people starve than have at it. But growing crops for fuel is no more a crime against humanity than growing, say, coffee rather than maize is a crime.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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