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article: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I wanted to comment on this statement: It is not the judiciary's job to make decisions based on mainstream American values. It is the judiciary's job to make decisions based first on the US Constitution and secondly on US law. The filibuster refered to is...

Please put your comments in this thread instead of clogging up the What's The Harm thread

I think it's best to keep the original thread "clean" of comments and derailments and post them in another thread, e.g. here. This story posted by Loki is the saddest thing I've ever read. By far. Damn, I'm just speechless. I wanted to add something to this but there's no words to describe how...

JREF Admin: Comments on recent reports There have been several reports of posts in this section of the forum over the last few days; these reports have contained serious accusations and allegations ranging from racism to libel. Because of (what I perceive) the serious nature of these reports I...

Todays El Pais has a bit about an anti inflammatory drug called Vioxx. It seems that it may have caused up 140,000 heart attacks in the USA alone – NOT counting the rest of the world . Wonder when the world will wake up to the fact that antibiotics do NOT vanquish inflammation . They ONLY...

"Not only does science know why the tsunami happened, it can give precious hours of warning. If a small fraction of the tax breaks handed out to churches, mosques and synagogues had been diverted into an early warning system, tens of thousands of people, now dead, would have been moved to...

I am a sceptic, but find myself torn by the notion that some bereaved people clearly find comfort in the nonsense spouted by mediums. Who are we - sceptics - to deny a bereaved parent, say, the comfort of believing that their dead child is "no longer suffering". When railing agaist frauds...

Given how this forum showed it's disinterest in anything that might actually help the black community the last time Bill Cosby spoke, it will be interesting to see how quickly this one drops. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040702/ap_en_mo/cosby_comments_9 " Cosby made headlines...

FFI comments quoted in the Commentary: This amazingly good point would seem to have relevance to Christianity as well--given the environment, how is it that horribly exaggerated stories WEREN'T spread around recklessly?

Jerry Falwell was interviewed on CNN where he described what he thought was the most appropriate method for teaching evolution: the evidence for and against evolution should be presented to the students, along with other models, and the students decide for themselves. The funny part is the...