freedom

This thread is a branch from this one: Why Do Conservatives Hate Obama? Rather than further derail the original topic, I decided to post this as a new thread: Actually, prices did rise universally across the country, in a sense. They rose in every state, and the average rose. (If this...

I believe that my lab instructor is making an error about the correct number of degrees of freedom he wants us to use in our chi-square analysis. We are using the chi-square test to evaluate our Drosophila melanogaster inheritance observations. He is having us calculate the 'observed -...

A fairly old thread I noticed recently asked "What is is like to be a non-believer" and I would just like to illuminate on the point. Many people can remember, as a child, being afraid of the dark. It was always something just under the bed or in the closet. When the demons came for me I...

Many people suppose there is an intrinsic moral distinction between restrictions on a person's options caused by other people and restrictions on a person's options caused by "natural forces" such as biology or the laws of physics or whatever. I don't see the logic behind this. Surely, to the...

In the U.S. we're proud of the freedoms that so many soldiers have died to protect. One of those freedoms is freedom of the press which keeps ordinary Americans aware of what is happening in the world and in our country. It's a right that our forefathers thought essential to the Democratic...

US Protocol crumbles on Hu visit. Okay, so it's not surprising that the Chinese, with their dreadful human rights record, would pull the plug on this woman. [SIZE=2] And I can just about see that a good host would apologise for embarrassment caused to a guest. And I guess that someone...

It seems that things are running a bit amok up north. and this Sounds a bit like thought crime. I am a strong believer in freedom of speech and I find this PCness very, very troubling.

NPR just ran a story on "Intelligent Design and Academic Freedom". Mostly centered around Sternberg publication of an intelligent design article...http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5007508

Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Hospitalized Poor guy. You can't just haul him halfway around the world, drop him in a field of flowers in a free country, and expect him to take it well. Hope he clears up. :(

Walter jones, NC congressman who led the drive to change the name of "french fries" to "Freedom Fries" regrets making the change. "I wish it had never happened." :p I'm sure he's sorry he made himself look like a moron. With the help of God's hand, of course.

"I believe the US is the greatest force for freedom that the world has ever seen" Discuss

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4458873.stm ...full article Let's see if the christian brown-shirts will stand us for religious freedom in this case. I won't hold my breath.

Eagan (MN) Blogger Fans Canadian Scandal I've learned something today about the (lack of) freedom of the press in Canada. From the Star Tribune article: edited to add this quote:

And I'm not talking about Thailand. I just came from a convenience store and this young guy and his girl were in there. They had that look and sound in their voices like you do when you first get out of bed. They probably...you know...then decided to go out and get something to eat or drink...

For you who might have a different insight to these subjects, what is your opinions of the site http://www.cfpf.org.uk and it's many pro-survival statements and claims of psychic phenomena being sanely explained by the field of subatomic physics? They quoate a few astrophysics and have a strong...

The trend of removing science from education is now at full speed. The government of Florida wants to allow students to sue individual professors who they personally disagree with. They specifically mention the persecution of students who believe in intelligent design. Worse, they want to...

Is there freedom in America? What are your conclusions on this? Like many past experiments, is America a failed experiment?

The last thread seemed that members were more concerned about the content of speech then the right and the forum it is presented in. Lawrence Summers President of Harvard University in a speech given in a public forum with the expressed intention to ferment debate has caused an uproar. The area...

Jounalistic integrity is dead. It's all about being the first to get the most sensational story published, getting the highest ratings, selling the most newspapers, and landing the most high-profile interviews. Facts, truth, and ethics are completely meaningless. There are no checks and...

Can freedom ever cause others to lose their freedom? Outside the realm of direct harm, can anything I do take away your freedom? This seems to be a reoccuring theme in arguements with libretarians, and I was wondering if I could get a direct answer. It seems natural to me that freedom would have...

Source I dunno, the America I'm proud to be a citizen of respects the rights of everyone to voice their opinion.

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/Releases.aspx?ID=4843 Heres one of those values the democrats are brain dead about. It has lost them the last 3 elections.

From the south park creators Trey Parker and Matt StoneTEAM AMERICA Marionette puppets are used throughout the film to mock terror threats, and media figures who dominate the nation's airwaves. But Parker and Stone save most of the mocking for left-wing pundits and Michael Moore. "Bush is not...

Click here (audio file) for an article regarding Corrine Brown's comments being stricken from the record of the House of Representatives. This is weird for an Aussie to read, because in Australia we have what's known as 'parliamentary privilege'. This means you can pretty much say what you...

You can advertise anything you want, except what the owners don't want you to. So much for freedom of speech. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/12/1089484302820.html?from=top5

I was aware of some wackey laws there: The mind wobbles.

Bush wants to be done with the prison Abu Ghraib in Iraq. How should the new and improved prison be named?

Source Change is always difficult, but the world we give to our children will be different from the world we recieved from our fathers.

The End Of Academic Freedom? I think you're being a bit paraniod.

...was the promise that President Bush made in his last press conference, but why didn't he use the term 'democracy'...? Democracy does NOT equal Freedom, and Freedom does NOT mean Democracy. In MY view "Freedom" means FREE to do any damn thing one wishes, which in my view may also be...