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societies and their mythoi: More Republican constitutional bupkis
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. More Republican constitutional bupkis. The US constitution seems very clear that taxes should be used to benefit the United States: pay the debts; provide for the common defence and the general welfare. But it’s never that clear: whose debts? 8212; Article I (Section 8),. By their very nature. Authorized by the Constitution. Such as national security, and the care of those who cannot care for themselv...
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societies and their mythoi: The bad history boys
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. The bad history boys. When Rick Santorum makes assertions based on a conservative political stance about the place of Christianity in US history, the relationship between the State and religion, and religious freedom, it is often bad history but history that needs more checking than cheap jibes at Barack Obama. Was the USA always “a moral enterprise” as Santorum thinks? 8212; Newt Gingrich, Speech.
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societies and their mythoi: Abortion and godlings
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. The desire to favour ideology over compassion for women. Has surfaced in Ireland in very distressing way. A pregnant woman (Savita Halappanavar) was admitted to University Hospital Galway (UHG), where she was found to be miscarrying and soon was in severe pain. Savita died of septicaemia a week later. Why did Savita die? According to an article in. Who had not been born. Who had been born. This varian...
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societies and their mythoi: Economic faith, economic reason
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. Economic faith, economic reason. It is far more difficult to combat faith than it is to combat reason and knowledge. A faith that there can be such a thing as a “free” market, or unambiguously “private” property, is difficult to shake. As I have noted elsewhere. The History of Astronomy. The theory of moral sentiments. And what are the economics of that outcome? I’m not sure of the nature of ...
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societies and their mythoi: Throwing all into confusion
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. Throwing all into confusion. Considering the mischief caused by Tea-Party Republican representatives, and the resulting confusion about how to end the shutdown, here is Rawlins Lowndes’s realistic view of the proposed US constitution of 1787, as collected in the. Whilst all authority in it [the federal republic] will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into...
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societies and their mythoi: The rites of job creators
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. The rites of job creators. In June 1993, shortly after Bill Clinton became US President, the US unemployment rate was 7.0%. Under Clinton the unemployment rate dropped dramatically to 3.9% in December 2000, and the top rate of taxation had increased from 31% when he entered office to 39.6%. Around the time of the US 2008 presidential elections:. On NPR, Grover Norquist. The 1991 tax cuts were accompan...
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societies and their mythoi: Insanity we trust
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. In the aftermath of the killings in Newtown there have been many calls on the Republican side for control not of. 8211; welcome to the US health care morass, encouraged by Republicans. How do we know who has mental problems? As a Republican web site. Wrote, rather unsympathetically:. There are many types of “deranged” persons – schizophrenics, paranoids, and the list goes on. Par...How can we possibly...
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societies and their mythoi: The emergency room as the safety net
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. The emergency room as the safety net. Commoners in need should obtain help and support at the caprice of those affluent enough to get a tax deduction for money given to legally-recognized charities, and the commoners should be thankful. 8212; What conservatives really mean by “charities should be responsible for providing health care to those who can’t afford it”. 3 March 2004) [My. Having health care...
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societies and their mythoi: What begat marriage?
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Societies and their mythoi. A Social Enquiry blog. Social Enquiry: The analysis of knowledge in society. In nearly all early societies:. The mother of a child was certain. The father of a child was never certain. Men usually controlled most of the property in civic society, and then these men died. Here is the fundamental question: who controlled a man’s property when he died? Which persons had the civic rights to a dead man’s property? Paternity was hardly ever 100% certain and so civic. I think that be...