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Prevention and Pre-EmptionWhen is starting a war not aggression?By Christopher HitchensPosted Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:33 AM PT It is said that during the 1973 Yom Kippur War—known on the other side as the Ramadan War—an Israeli military spokesman was asked for the fourth or fifth time whether the Jewish state would use nuclear weapons if its ground forces continued to suffer defeat. He repeated the official mantra—"Israel will not be the first country to deploy nuclear weapons in this region"—and then stepped back from the microphone (which he believed to have been switched off) and whispered to himself, "And...

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THE SELF AS GOD IN GERMAN PHILOSOPHY All of which is only another way of saying that . . . it is our affair to participate in this redemption by laying aside our immediate subjectivity (putting off the old Adam), and getting to know God as our true and essential self. H E G E L The movement of thought from Kant to Hegel revolved in a fundamental sense around the idea of man's self-realization as a godlike being, or alternatively, as God. A radical departure from Western tradition was implicit in this tendency. the centuries-old ruling conception of...

Home | e-mail The first question many people ask is: "Why guns?" Some ask more generally, "Why advocate ownership of weapons?" The answer is far from simple but it is logical. Read on. We, humans, have the enviable position at the top of the food chain. Although individuals occasionally fall prey to wild beasts, as a species we are safe, except from ourselves. Being an omnivore of modest size, we got to this privileged position through our use of tools. Tools we use are not limited to guns: equally simple mechanical devices have done much to improve the quality of...

<p>OAK PARK, Mich. -- A man who police say castrated another man on his kitchen table faces possible charges.</p> <p>Police on Saturday found the apparently willing victim, a 48-year-old Birmingham man, sitting on a curb in bloodstained blue jeans, Oak Park Detective Lt. Bruce Smith told The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak.</p>

Citizen Muckraking How to Investigate and Right Wrongs in Your Community With 6 billion people on the planet and 270 million living in the United States, who can blame anyone for thinking that one person can’t make a difference? But don’t believe it for a second.In two decades as an investigative journalist, uncovering impropriety around the nation and abroad, countless times I have seen individuals persistently ask unpopular but entirely reasonable questions about matters affecting their daily lives: the air they breathe, the water they drink, the food they buy and eat, the schools their children attend. And frequently their...

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TRANSFORMATION THROUGH SELF-AWARENESS by Theodore J. Nottingham You and I are not simply men and women who pay our bills, bring up families, experience joys and sorrows and finally pass away like a dream that suddenly ends. We are much more than this. In our bodies that grow old, our spirits are made in the image of the Creator. We are not simply our picture on our driver's license or our social security number. We are the spiritual children of the eternal Creator. But we limit ourselves to our nationality, our gender, our age. Nationality, for instance, can be...