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Casas was an interesting guy. I read somewhere, however, that he suggested importing Africans as slaves as a replacement for the enslavement of the indigenous population. Complicated, as are most interesting historical figures.
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The flies and honey and vinegar thing is not about human rights, but rather about rhetorical style. As to the Dec of Rights of Man and Cit. Read it. Many times. The folks who wrote it would have very likely have read some documents written in …
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I've read some of the links people have contributed. I've got some more thinking to do. Two things jump out of my early thoughts, though: 1) the Magna Carta was about *noble* rights vis a vis the king, not human rights (although nobles were hum…
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Of course I realize that the Nobel Prize is not a US award. Neither is it simply Swedish: at least this year the award was given in Oslo (if I recall correctly it is a joint Norwegian/Swedish thing). But let me restate my point and hope it makes …
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Is the world a perfect place? No. Is someone doing something to make it better? Yes. There are many, and I am one, who will grant that Saudi and China should be called out. You may have noticed that Bush is doing that (not as fast as I'd li…
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I had hardly expected the tone, Scott, but I guess I should have. First of all: of course she should have the right to say whatever she likes, but she's the dense one if she doesn't realize that the greatest defender of her right is the country …
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Happy to oblige! [url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/12/11/2003079153[/url]
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Howdy. Two things: 1) Do "the kids" read Rolling Stone? (If "no", then does Kerry think they do? If he does, and is wrong, then it is not a good sign for him.) 2) Couldn't Kerry's wirty dord have been the sort of thing people in his positi…
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I am taking a weekend break from failing 10th graders who plagiarized. I alerted them on Thursday and am just letting them consider their fates until Monday.