https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/patricia-conlon-murder-joshua-troutte
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Rights of aliens in Kent
Even alien enemies, resident in the country, may sue and be sued as in time of peace, for protection to their persons and property is due, and implied from the permission to them to remain, without being ordered out of the country by the President of the United States. The lawful residence does, pro hac vice, relieve the alien from the character of an enemy, and entitles his person and property to protection.60 The effect of war upon the rights of aliens we need not here discuss, as it has been already considered in a former part of this course of lectures, when treating of the law of nations.61
https://lonang.com/library/reference/kent-commentaries-american-law/kent-25/
Sweetened Drinks Are Linked to Chronic Liver Disease and Liver Cancer
It is widely known that consuming sweetened drinks can contribute to obesity and insulin resistance. A recent prospective cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has further revealed detrimental health effects linked to sweetened drinks, particularly concerning liver disease. The study showed that individuals who regularly consume sweetened drinks face an astonishing 85 percent higher likelihood of developing liver cancer and a 68 percent higher risk of mortality from chronic liver disease than those who consume fewer sweetened drinks.
Monday, August 28, 2023
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Is the injured health this man experienced after eating McDonald's three times a day for 30 days good or bad?
See this extended trailer of Supersize Me (starting at 4:09):
3. Is it good or bad for children to live in poverty?
Friday, August 25, 2023
The Great Tragedy.
“Before Luther defected from the Catholic Church, nearly the whole West was of the same faith and religion, and in whatever direction a man might go, he would always find his brethren. All were then in light.
Thursday, August 24, 2023
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Wife charged after husband shoots lover dead
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17874088
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LegalCenter/story?id=2998744&page=1
Arlington wife who lied about rape convicted in lover's death
Wife who lied about rape convicted in lover's deathThe Arlington woman, whose husband shot the man to death, faces up to 20 years behind bars
Monday, August 21, 2023
What the Word Torah Means
The noun torah is rendered in a causative conjugation, which is just a way of saying that it literally means to cause something (or someone) to move straight and true.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-does-the-word-torah-mean/
Sunday, August 20, 2023
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Sunday, August 13, 2023
Pythagoras: sinfulness of eating beans
Cicero related a theory that beans had been forbidden because they disturbed the mind, but also indicated some skepticism:
Now Plato’s advice to us is to set out for the land of dreams with bodies so prepared that no error or confusion may assail the soul. For this reason, it is thought, the Pythagoreans were forbidden to indulge in beans; for that food produces great flatulence and induces a condition at war with a soul in search of truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (c. 44 BCE). On Divination 1.62. Translated by William Armistead Falconer (1923). Perseus Digital Library.
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/43992/pythagoras-sinfulness-of-eating-beans
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Happiness in Kant
The problem of determining surely and universally which action would promote the happiness of a rational being is completely insoluble.”
https://aporia.byu.edu/pdfs/hughes-the_role_of_happiness_in_kants_ethics.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysical-Principles-Virtue-Metaphysics-Morals/dp/B00262TVHS
Monday, August 7, 2023
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Friday, August 4, 2023
Warren Harding’s Real Scandal Was His Conservatism
Was a war that led the Bolsheviks to power in Russia—and very nearly in Germany, where communists did establish a Bavarian Soviet Republic for a time—a victory for the United States?
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
George Orwell
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? ~George Orwell