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Have death panels already arrived?

Nancy Valko | 13 Nov 2009 | comment 5
tags: Obamacare, death panels, bioethics

The case against: an experienced nurse worries that Obamacare will entrench an existing quality-of-life ethic. 
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Give me ObamaCare and my grandmom is doomed?

Summer Johnson | 13 Nov 2009 | comment 6
tags: bioethics, death panels, Obamacare

The case for: a leading American bioethicist defends the Obama Administration’s proposals as fairer, cheaper and more trustworthy.

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A continent where Communism lingers on

Pedro José Izquierdo | 13 Nov 2009 | comment 2
tags: Communism, Ecuador, Latin America, rationalism

The fall of the Berlin Wall restored common sense to Europe, but what about Latin America?


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Lessons from a beauty pageant

Carolyn Moynihan | 13 Nov 2009 | comment 3
tags: Carrie Prejean, Christian, family values

For all her courage under fire, Carrie Prejean was never the right choice to front family values.

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A Christmas Carol

Leticia Velasquez | 11 Nov 2009 | comment 4
tags: Christmas, films

Jim Carrey is brilliant in this retelling of the classic Christmas story -- this time with stunning computer-generated effects.

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Heil Herr Heidegger?

Richard Umbers | 11 Nov 2009 | comment 20
tags: Julian Savulescu, Martin Heidegger, Peter Singer, philosophy

An attack on a flawed philosopher shows the deficiencies of political correctness.

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The other 1989s

Fred Halliday | 9 Nov 2009 | comment 5
tags: 1989, Communism, Eastern Europe

While the break-up of the Soviet empire brought freedom to Eastern Europe, elsewhere the consequences were often destructive and deadly.

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Why we remember

John Robson | 9 Nov 2009 | comment 15
tags: Flanders Fields, Remembrance Day, war

Remembrance Day is not a pacifist occasion but a recollection of  our solemn contract with those who have fallen.

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Departures

Walter Pless | 5 Nov 2009 | comment 5
tags: Academy Awards, death, Japan

It's hard to infuse death with luminous beauty, but Japanese director Yojiro Takita succeeds magnificently in this year's best foreign film.

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Toddlers and TV sets don’t mix

Kevin Ryan | 5 Nov 2009 | comment 6
tags: character education, education, IQ

The folly of trying to teach babies by plonking them in front of a television has finally been confirmed.

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On burying the dead

Carolyn Moynihan | 5 Nov 2009 | comment 10
tags: death, funerals

The last of the corporal works of mercy seems to be in terminal decline.

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