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Throughout my ethics class’s viewing of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth , I was caught off guard by just how poor the case for human-caused global warming really is. Assuming every claim Gore makes in the movie is true, we are perfectly capable of dealing with things such as climate changes and rises in sea levels. My surprise was partly due to a

Tiananmen Square never seems to leave the news. People jailed during the uprising are still being released from prison, records previously guarded as state secrets are coming to light, and books on the topic keep coming out. China’s status as one of the world’s fastest growing economies, ever transitioning toward a market model, draws our

Lou Dobbs has made himself a crusader for the middle class on his CNN show. He’s just written a book, War on the Middle Class , in which he describes government, corporate, and special interest groups which have unofficially declared war on the middle class and told working people where to go. I, for one, am totally stunned at his book and his

Recently, Anderson Cooper and one of his correspondents, Gary Tuchman, condemned price gouging in New Orleans as if they were reporting an inherently unjust practice that no reasonable person would accept. So, once again, it needs explaining why price gouging is not only not bad, but is essential to the welfare of everyone involved. Without it,