TalkLeft: Justices Have Doubts on Executing Juvenile Offenders There is a lot of good information in this post: The opinion noted “a ‘national consensus’ repudiating executions of juveniles, in part because of poll data and also because no state has lowered its minimum age for execution since 1989 while five states have raised the age [...]
Archive for October 22nd, 2002
Talk Left on Juvenille Death Penalties
Posted in Politics on October 22, 2002 | Comments Off
Joan D'Arc on Islam and Dmeocracy
Posted in Politics on October 22, 2002 | Comments Off
Body and Soul Seems that Islam is not all that hostile to democracy: * Last February, women in Bahrain were given the right to vote and run for office. They will be voting for the first time in the country’s history this Thursday. They’re given a “miniscule” chance of electing a female representative to Parliament, [...]
Folding@home has a success
Posted in General on October 22, 2002 | Comments Off
ScienceDaily Magazine — Folding@home Scientists Report First Distributed Computing Success Now, for the first time, a distributed computing experiment has produced significant results that have been published in a scientific journal. Writing in the advanced online edition of Nature magazine, Stanford University scientists Christopher D. Snow and Vijay S. Pande describe how they %u2013 with [...]
Why I would vote for Davis
Posted in General on October 22, 2002 | Comments Off
TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 20. The Left Coast Goes Lefter. William Bradley. I don’t live in California, so I don’t know all the ins and outs of the Govenor’s race, but this article caught my eye. Look at some of the things that have happened under Davis in California: The farmworkers bill was just the [...]
College Prices Rise
Posted in Politics on October 22, 2002 | Comments Off
College Tuitions Jump As States Trim Budgets (washingtonpost.com) I have talked about this before, but it is always worth mentioning: Squeezed by state budget cuts and dwindling endowments, four-year public colleges and universities raised their tuitions and fees by an average of 9.6 percent for the current school year — the largest price hike in [...]
Cohen on Bush's real danger
Posted in Politics on October 22, 2002 | Comments Off
Their Little Secret (washingtonpost.com) In too many respects, the Bush administration operates as if it — and not Congress or, for that matter, the American people — owns this entity called “the government.” It has told Congress to buzz off when it asked for documents telling whom Vice President Cheney met with in formulating the [...]
WaPost: "For Bush, Facts Are Malleable"
Posted in General on October 22, 2002 | Comments Off
For Bush, Facts Are Malleable (washingtonpost.com) All three assertions were powerful arguments for the actions Bush sought. And all three statements were dubious, if not wrong. Further information revealed that the aircraft lack the range to reach the United States; there was no such report by the IAEA; and the customs dispute over the detectors [...]
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