Author: Don Quixote

Why are so many people who are unwilling to do anything to stop Iran from getting and intentionally using nuclear weapons so freaked out at the possibility of a nuclear accident?

Who is at fault in the NFL labor dispute?  And how will it all end?

[Because this thread is still going strong, I’ve moved it up to the top of the blog this morning — Bookworm.] Zachriel raises a new and very interesting point: “A strong an prosperous America leading free nations is a good thing. Dominance of one nation by another is undemocratic and

One more thread and then I’ll relax for awhile (unless something catches my interest, of course). Zachriel said at one point that our invasion of Iraq offended all nations who support international law.   It is arguable, of course, that the invasion did not violate international law and was merely an

Zachriel asserts that hospitals have a moral obligation to treat all patients who come through their door (or at least those with serious problems, I’m not sure which).  He appears to feel, though he has not asserted it quite this way, that government has some sort of moral obligation to

We’ve been having a great discussion on another thread about the left and the right, thanks largely to a visit from Zachriel.  I’m not sure how much we taught each other.  We got a bit sidetracked into discussions about whether Pelosi is a socialist, although Zachriel couldn’t come up with a

Back before Obama’s health plan passed, I said to BW that if it ever passes we’ll never get rid of it.  People will start to see it as an entitlement, and you know how hard entitlements are to get rid of.  Sure enough, opposition is rapidly easing.  So now what

I’ve heard that when the Constitution was read in the House, very few Democrats stayed to hear it.  Does anyone know who the Democrats were who did stay?  And has anyone approached them about changing parties?

   DQ here.  The current Reader’s Digest uses freedom of religion to argue for the Ground Zero mosque with the following sentence in the concluding paragraph of the six-page article:  “From the Islamic perspective, freedom to worship is part of the divine plan.”  In which Muslim-dominated countries is this divine

Quick question.  In a comment on another thread jj already has decided that the Republicans are not going to do what they were elected to do.  I’m not ready to pass judgment, but I fear and suspect this will be the case.  So, my question, especially to the Tea Party

Taking a short break from brief-writing and thought of a question you might be interested in.  From the day we were married, my wife and I have always viewed everything we have as “ours.”  I was thinking about this the other days, as I thought about “our” trying to raise

Sports fans like me have always watched events in which people got hurt.  In some cases, hurting the opponent is the point (boxing, MMA).  But the events were played by people dedicated to their sports who were striving to be the best they could possibly be at their level, be

I’m spending the holiday weekend working on a legal brief that has to go out on Monday.  I don’t have enough energy to do anything serious, so let’s have some fun.  If you were going to create a TV program (Oprah is looking for some shows for her new network, you

Sadie strikes again (thank you Sadie!) with another excellent topic suggestion, asking each of us as the new year begins to look back to the best and worst moments of last year and forward to predict the best and the worst of the year to come. I’ll start.  On a