A Stitch in Haste

–A Special Guest Question: How Will the Imperial Presidency End?
–What percentage of the "Master Settlement Agreement" with tobacco companies are the 46 participating state governments actually spending on tobacco prevention?
–How accurate is the TSA's new "behavior detection" program?
–How many websites has Iran's radical Islamic government blocked as "immoral and anti-social"?
–Who wrote the following?
A nation whose [...]

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–Who said the following, and why?
We're moving to, perhaps, our first anti-Christian president; it's beyond post-Christian.
–Which Western European nation may soon forbid female Muslim judges from wearing headscarves? (Via Religion Clause.)
–Meanwhile, which Islamic nation has sentenced a physician to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes (which might kill him and has been described [...]

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–A Special Guest Question: "What's more harmful to society — two well-dressed men getting married and settling down, or two idiots tying the knot and cranking out any number of additional idiots?"
–How much did U.K. taxpayers fund a quango to tell them not to buy sandwiches for lunch?
–Special Follow-Up Question: What's a "quango"?
–Is it reasonable [...]

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–What are Malaysia's Islamic theocrats, the National Fatwa Council, poised to forbid Muslims from doing in that country? (Via Religion Clause.)
–A Special Guest Question: Should Women Pay More for Health Insurance?
–What fraction of teachers in the U.K. believe that creationism and "intelligent design" should be taught as science?
–Who said the following?
You don't ever want [...]

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–Which company did the BBC dub "the most controversial Olympic sponsor so far," and why?
–Who said the following?
Barack Obama could be running against the devil and you'd still have high turnout among values voters.
–A Special Guest Question: Is YouTube Homophobic and Sexist?
–Which European city now requires people to take drug tests before they can enter [...]

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–Which nation with a socialized medicine regime recently denied an immigration application from a South African emergency physician, on the grounds that his daughter, who suffers from cerebral palsy (but whom the physician intends to have remain in South Africa), would pose "a burden on the health-care system"? (Via Kevin, M.D.)
–Special Follow-Up Question: Where is [...]

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–Is it a proper function of government, especially state government, to require a single man to obtain health insurance that includes maternity care, or an tea-totalling abstainer to obtain health insurance that includes substance abuse services? (Via Cato@Liberty.)
–What are the tax implications of Sarah Palin's new GOP-funded wardrobe?
–Since when does a supposed "economic superpower" have [...]

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–Is it a proper function of government to sentence a 20-year old man to jail, and caning, because his father is displeased with his "idleness"? ("He is not listening to words and he is bringing shame to my family. I am tired of his nefarious deeds. Please put this boy in prison so that I [...]

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–Is it a proper function of government to ban Google image searches in the name of enforcing copyrights?
–Does a "right to health care" include a right to a yacht ride? ("It's about showing young people there's something good in life and they can make lifestyle choices which hopefully mean they will go into higher education.")
–Why [...]

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–A Special Guest Question: Who is Joe the Plumber?
–Is it a proper function of government to fine a sick 12-year old child for vomiting in the street?
–A Special Guest Question: What Could Change the Election?
–Whatever happened to "gridlock is good for the budget"?
–Who said the following?
I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the [...]

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