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The Unintended Costs of an Armed Society IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Japanwest-Carriage

Tod Kelly August 6, 2012

(Note: This post is NOT part of our current Democracy Symposium. If you want to follow the...

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J.L. Wall July 27, 2012

At the New Yorker, Rollo Roming argues that calling James Holmes and/or Jerry Sandusky “evil” raises more...

Politicizing the Tragedy in Aurora IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-thyssen.the-west-facade-of-the-church-of-saint-mary-in-utrecht-4

Conor P. Williams July 21, 2012

However we usually define tragedy, there’s something uniquely debilitating about those catastrophes that break into our lives...

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25Tel Aviv is burning thanks to Bibi’s desire to stay out of jail for corruption. This is like saying…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25Remember the dynamic that existed between the "you should be able to make fun of Islam" people and t…
LeeEsq in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25I do remember that.
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25Islam is given a massive exception to the requirements of liberalism that other religions are not. Y…
InMD in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25Oh I agree 100%, and Ukraine was actually what I was thinking of when I wrote the comment. But I als…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25Vigilantism is going to end up going to very, very bad places.
LeeEsq in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25We aren't doing this, Israel is at the moment. I am rather pissed at the big exception to the rule a…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25Two Democratic state law makers and their spouses assassinated in their homes in Minnesota: https://…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25Sign ideas for today's No Kings rallies: "Legalize Pot Federally" "End Daylight Saving Time"
North in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 6/9/25You can object to their feeling as much as you want- it's still how they obviously feel; not that I…