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The US Supreme Court recently affirmed a fundamental constitutional right — in this case, the right of a detainee to challenge the government’s grounds for confining him. Senator McCain responded by saying: “The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this …
The British generate a little less than ten tons of carbon per person each year; in the United States the number is about twice that.* It is heartening to know that even in the smallest Cotswold villages people are expected to recycle and to segregate different sorts of waste. Epicurus, of course, had to dispose …
British registrations of 4 x 4s (SUVs) fell more than 18 per cent last month, part of a Europe-wide collapse. Were Epicurus alive today he would be appalled that these monsters were ever designed in the first place in an era of climate change.  Where I live they are overwhelmingly used by young women who …
– The carbon footprint of roses from Holland – which are almost always grown in heated greenhouses _ is six times the footprint of those shipped from Kenya. – Watching a plasma TV for three hours every day contributes 250 kilograms of carbon to the atmosphere each year, but an LCD TV is responsible for …
This from Greta Akpeneye, head teacher and a former “loony Left” Lambeth councillor: IQ and other test identify not ability but rather the level of socialization and indoctrination into limited notions of desirable knowledge and ways of understanding the world, which can be typified as “middle class”. Access to this “culture” enables access to academia …
