25 days ago by anticant

The Director General of the Security Service, Jonathan Evans, has jumped with both feet into the increasingly heated debate about British use of intelligence obtained through torture. In a centenary speech at Bristol University yesterday (15 October), he made a valiant effort at having it both ways. ...

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26 days ago by Rajat Kumar

The current moment of globalization is witnessing an extra ordinary movement of people across the borders across the national or international borders whether legitimate or illegitimate. In post-colonial world the distinction between the issue of trafficking and migration, and trafficking and sex wo ...

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37 days ago by Sue

Product Description This book is designed to introduce readers to the fundamental nature of law, to give them an overview of general legal principles, and to help them develop a special understanding of the historical development of criminal law and its contemporary form and function in today’s Amer ...

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64 days ago by cavedog14

Human beings are, by our natures, creative, social, and morally-oriented. That makes it particularly shameful that our politics tend to be so divisive, polarized, and disillusioning. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about our political debates is that we manage to use them to pit our most treasure ...

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70 days ago by cft

In response to the simple-minded attempt of Richard B. "Dick" Cheney to defend himself by claiming that torture is good for America, the former Republican presidential candidate and former P.O.W., Senator John McCain replies that Cheney's torture programs made the United States less safe and also th ...

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90 days ago by rbrtmnt

The following rant/epistle emerged from a discussion about what exactly is the truth about the health-care reform bill. The question was honestly posed, from the perspective of a disinterested youth—or, to be more accurate, a youth looking for something worth being interested in. This is precisely t ...

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101 days ago by richard jehn

Christians Largely Mum on TortureBy Ray McGovern / July 31, 2009Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.Who but the cowardly crew ...

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123 days ago by theologusmoralis

In her piece “ Without a Doubt: Why Barack Obama represents American Catholics better than the pope does” Kathleen Kennedy Townsend presents a case for how Pres. Obama can teach Pope Benedict about politics and what a Catholic politics could look like as well as how Pres. Obama fits better with Amer ...

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209 days ago by Hercules

Briefing. From CFNews:GCSE pupils could be analysing sexually explicit lads' mags as part of a Media Studies course, it has emerged. Teens could compare the 'style and tone' of magazines such as Nuts, FHM and Zoo, notorious for displaying semi-naked women on their covers. The latest edition of Zoo f ...

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211 days ago by Hercules

Briefing: is it just me or are bishops saying more interesting things these days? Cardinal O'Brien tells the Scottish executive that if you wreck society - undermine the family, forbid schools to exercise discipline, encourage under-age sex etc. - you should not be surprised when things even liberal ...

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