Libertarians insist that the political spectrum is not a straight line, with "right-wingers" on one end and "left-wingers" on the other. Instead, it is a circle, where extremists on opposite poles touch?and share a desire to impose their particular brands of political correctness on the rest of us. Extremists may disagree on ideology, but they share a real fondness for authoritarianism.
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Assault on Judges
The nation’s founders realized that judges wouldn’t always be right, but they nevertheless insisted that they be independent. In the system they created, majority rule stops where the Bill of Rights begins. If judges weren’t shielded from the political passions of the day, the founders knew the Bill of Rights would quickly become the "Set of Suggestions."
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Redemption and Rehabilitation: Charitable Choice and Criminal Justice
Unlike social services like job training and placement, day care or medical assistance, such drug and prison programs are not merely faith-based, they are faith-infused. It is not accidental that so many prison programs are called “Ministries.”
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Social Responsibility, Accountability and U.S. Welfare Reform: The Context of America’s Faith Based
Accountability is problematic when there is not clarity of expectations or agreed-upon goals, and that lack of clarity has long been a characteristic of social welfare in the United States.
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Writing as Thinking
Until you can express a thought clearly and cogently, that thought does not yet exist.
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