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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Top 20 Most-Read Posts of 2011
Title Views Statistics on Capital Punishment 38,124 The Causes of Poverty (3): Overview 28,673 Segregation, A Collection of Images 27,091 Statistics on Discrimination of Homosexuals 26,137 Statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Correlations 25,242 Human Rights Quote (48): Aids Disaster … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas …
(source unknown) … and as usual we’ll take a short holiday break. Daily posting will resume on January 2nd. In the meantime, why don’t we – tongueincheekish - reflect on some of the human rights issues thrown up by the Holidays? After all, … Continue reading
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Tagged ayn rand, christianity, christmas, consumerism, holiday, human rights, libertarianism, religious liberty, Santa Claus, war on christmas
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Human Rights Cartoon (69): The Other Invisible Hand
(source) More on the invisible hand and on charity. More human rights cartoons.
Posted in comedy, human rights cartoon, poverty
Tagged cartoon, charity, christmas, human rights, invisible hand
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Human Rights Video (24): Gender Discrimination
An interesting talk about gendercide, gender differences in child mortality and in literacy and education, human trafficking, maternal mortality etc. More human rights videos are here.
The Causes of Poverty (53): Poor Economic Growth
As an update of this previous post, here’s some more information about the nature of the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. In a recent paper, Lane Kenworthy has compared growth and income data for 17 developed countries. Specifically, … Continue reading
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Tagged cartoon, economic growth, GDP, government transfers, progressive taxation, redistribution, trickle down, welfare state
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Political Graffiti (168): The Free Minds of the People
(source) More on Thomas Jefferson here. More political graffiti here.
Posted in activism, freedom, political graffiti
Tagged free minds, freedom, government restriction, graffiti, thomas jefferson
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Terrorism and Human Rights (37): Torture is Social and Political Suicide
(source) When democratic governments consider the option of torturing someone, the stakes are usually high. They won’t consider it just for some marginal benefit. The paradigmatic case is the ticking time bomb that’s about to kill thousands or even millions. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, democracy, institutionalization of torture, political suicide, politics, rats, ticking bomb, torture squad
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (108): Environmentalism
(source) More on ecology. More jokes.
Posted in comedy, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged ecology, environment, green, humor, joke, types of environmentalism
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What Are Human Rights? (35): Freedom of Expression is Freedom of What Exactly?
Another way to frame the question in the title of this post is: what falls under the header of “expression”, and what not? Only if something is justifiably called expression can it enjoy the protection of the right to free … Continue reading
