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[13 Jul 2009 | 7 Comments | ]

What is Seen and Not Seen,
Wesley James Young:

The most important point about health care is whether or not the sick are being healed. The current debates over insurance schemes are disingenuous to this self-evident truth. Insurance does not guarantee treatment[1], as you may know from the many complains about long waits in European countries for treatment.

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[18 May 2009 | 17 Comments | ]

This week, we thought we might try something a little different, an experiment in collaborative article assignments and cross-party comparison. We asked two of our columnists, Wesley James Young and David Imbriaco, each to answer three questions. Wesley has been known to affiliate with the RU Republicans, while Dave is an avowed liberal, as anyone who has followed their staunch debates on the our comment boards in the past weeks will know. We hope this article will prove the first of many successful collaborations on the parts of our two …

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[3 May 2009 | 15 Comments | ]

What is Seen and Not Seen
On Wednesday the 29th, it was my privilege to attend a lecture given by a skeptic of man-made global warming, Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. It is  likely your reaction to such a view will be either vehement opposition to the idea that anyone can disagree with the “inconvenient truth” of Al Gore’s movie or of the sudden realization that maybe one is not alone in one’s doubts.

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[27 Apr 2009 | One Comment | ]

What is Seen and Not Seen
The law is a very Newtonian concept until the professional quibblers, lawyers and judges are invited to dilute it into a rhetorical baryogenesis.

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[13 Apr 2009 | 4 Comments | ]

Recent news items have so prodded my nature that I am almost moved to rant in a manner that would make Coriolanus seem temperate. I am referring to the many reactionary remarks on recent acts of violence and a plan for the legislature of Iowa to allow for homosexuals to marry. I suspect some may accuse me of Apophenia, but there is a connection in these events. That connection is property rights.

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[30 Mar 2009 | 20 Comments | ]

Having spent some of my time criticizing the ideas of others and theorizing about the source of various flaws in our tutoring services, I feel it time to make clear from where my arguments originate.