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Oregon’s assisted suicide law was essentially upheld by a 6-3 Supreme Court (Kennedy majority opinion [pdf]), by invalidating an “Interpretive Rule” issued by then AG John Ashcroft, which sought to invalidate the Oregon law by interpreting the Controlled Substance Act to prohibit doctors from prescribing drugs that assisted in suicide because they had “no medical [...]
Panda Thumber Timothy Sandefur profiles Jacob Bronowski, of whom I’ve never heard. Bronkowski was a WWII era renaissance scientist, with an acute ethical sensitivity, as demonstrated by the below snippet:
Bronowski explained why evolution was such a profound idea. Does not evolution simply reduce human nature to an accident, the interviewer asked? [Bronowski answered] “On [...]
Via Pharyngula, Greg Saunders picks up on an interesting set of similarities in the initial coverage of the tragic West Virginia coal mining collapse. Beside the clever observation that identical photos can be used to convey opposite messages, he makes the more important point that much of the initial ‘they live’ coverage attributed that fact [...]
Evangelicals are waging war on the First Amendment outside Dover, so now that the Thomas More Center has rendered Intelligent Design a lame irreparable sham, it’s a suitable time to turn attention to less secure frontlines. In Indiana, the state legislature had traditionally opened each session with a non-demoninational prayer; which, over time, grew “systematically [...]
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