Questions Raised About Ashcroft's Fundraising. by TChris Did John Ashcoft tell a fib to the Federal Election Commission? By renting out a political mailing list,… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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it seems he is fine with law breaking when it is him breaking the laws. the whole bush administration seems to have an 'above the law' vibe to it… but this is particularly ironic.

virii is not a 'proper' plural of virus, which is apparently viruses…. which sound icky to me, to use another improper word….

apparently the u.s. had a man prosecuted for throwing snowballs at our embassy in norway.

Susan Moller Okin.

edited personal report from ct

An obituary will appear in tomorrow’s edition of the Stanford Report. Here is the press release:

Susan Moller Okin died of unknown causes last week at the age of 57. Okin was Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and professor of Political Science at Stanford University. At the time of her death she was on leave with a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[Crooked Timber]

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oh, this is too bad, her book was interesting, we read it in my graduate class on the principles of justice…..

Pure Freedom. Like Josh Chafetz I scored a mere 21 out of a possible 160 on the Libertarian Purity Test. I might have gone a bit higher if some of the questions had been better specified. For instance one question asks, “Would… [Matthew Yglesias]

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i scored a 32…..

31-50 points: Your libertarian credentials are obvious. Doubtlessly you will become more extreme as time goes on.

Today is International Women's Day. “The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.”

–Abigail Scott Duniway, suffrage organiser [Purse Lip Square Jaw]

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International Women's Day…. A day worth nothing.