Tag: seth
member name: Seth Williams
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August 17, 2008 09:51 PM EDT --
A mere year and two days ago, my wife and I purchased an old home in an even older New England town. While the exact date of the house isn't known, my neighbor informs me that he's seen etchings . . . more
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December 21, 2005 05:56 PM EST --
When writing for or commenting on the internet, sometimes it comes in handy to know a little HTML. HTML stands for "Hyper-Text Mark-up Language", and it is the code underlying every webpage. . . . more
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March 03, 2006 10:02 PM EST --
Well, it's not often that I scream at the TV, but I found myself willing to make an exception for Howard Dean's performance on MSNBC yesterday. He was on talking about the latest ginned-up outrage . . . more
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November 14, 2005 06:06 PM EST --
Libertarianism is based on the idea of negative liberty: that no individual should suffer coercion; all should be free to do as they will so long as it does not interfere with others. This is a deeply . . . more
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November 16, 2005 12:34 AM EST --
Without a doubt, Abraham Lincoln is my favorite President. I revere Lincoln because he was a moral man who loved freedom—he believed that if we allow the freedom of others to be denigrated we open . . . more
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December 13, 2005 12:27 AM EST --
Recently President Bush acknowledged 30,000 Iraqis have been killed since the US lead invasion 3 years ago— that's an average of 10,000 dead Iraqis per year of occupation. While this number jells . . . more
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February 19, 2006 07:38 PM EST --
The article "The Problem with Oil" took a look at the nation's oil balance sheet and illustrated the scope of the problem America is faced with. America imports over half of the crude it . . . more
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August 18, 2008 11:24 PM EDT --
Doug H's photo sparked a fun discussion thread, which lead me to remember this good old tounge twister:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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August 12, 2008 08:17 PM EDT --
Here's a gem:
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-Thomas Jefferson
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December 26, 2005 02:14 PM EST --
There's an argument one often hears employed in arguing against the war in Iraq that goes something like this: if we overthrew the Ba'ath regime in Iraq because it was bad, why don't we overthrow . . . more
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December 29, 2005 01:45 AM EST --
Earlier today Fox News reported that the ACLU has filed a lawsuit against behavioral profiling at Logan Airport in Boston. A quick Google search revealed several stories between last November and now mentioning . . . more
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January 11, 2006 01:14 AM EST --
On his blog, Eugene Volokh discusses the "annoy someone and go to jail" law recently passed by Congress--which states that anonymous comments on the internet that annoy someone can be punnishable . . . more
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January 17, 2006 10:43 PM EST --
Conservatives are advocates of limited government, and the Republican Party is the contemporary home of American conservatives. The classically conservative view is that the federal government's proper . . . more
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February 14, 2006 07:50 PM EST --
NOTE: the following is the result of an assignment I had for one of my politics classes at university. It fairly well sums up a lot of what I've had to say before about the Iraq war by applying the . . . more
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May 06, 2006 09:13 AM EDT --
There has been a lot of pixels spilt over Rep. Pat Kennedy's recent run-in with the law for driving under the influence (yes, being on drugs--perscription or otherwise--is being "under the influence"). . . . more
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October 26, 2005 06:17 AM EDT --
After four years in Laos, I'm finally returning to my home country, the United States of America. A friend challenged me to think of three things I learned from my time here, three things I'd do . . . more
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November 04, 2005 03:40 PM EST --
The Reverend Martin Luther King Junior once said "If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer." . . . more
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November 19, 2005 06:31 AM EST --
The history of the martini, as with several other popular cocktails, is a murky one. All manner of things from an opera star, to rifle, to a town in California has laid claim to being the genesis of the . . . more
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December 01, 2005 02:05 PM EST --
In light of the recent partisan sniping and resulting media firestorm about a withdrawal timetable for American troops in Iraq, I have an open question--maybe more of a challenge--for the war opponents: . . . more
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December 19, 2005 12:18 AM EST --
It seems that you can't escape it--turn on the radio and you hear about it, turn on the TV and you see it, or talk to a relative and they mention it: Bush authorized the NSA to do some spying within . . . more
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