Recently, a group of teachers are calling for the banning of schoolchildren's homework, fearing the homework will make them stressed and unhappy. And others in support of the homework ban contend homework espec
I don’t see anyone calling for a law banning discrimination against tall people, and I presume that is because the problem is so trivial that any government solution would do more harm than good. Otherwise I agree with your comments. By the way, I am 6’4″ and often bump my head. ...
... A state may be in civil war, with two or more groups or armies fighting for contro...1628 Words 7 Pages 47. Dante, Boccaccio & Machiavelli Dante, Boccaccio & Machiavelli: From Belief to Amorality by Way of SlapstickReading these three books-Dante's Inferno, Boccaccio's Decameron,...
What some call “book banning,” many see as making responsible choices about what books are available in public and school libraries. “Is it censorship that you’re unable to go to your local taxpayer-funded branch and check out a copy of the [fradulent document] ‘Protocols of the Elders...
Faced with a new generation of bots that can masquerade as humans and mass-produce intimacy, democracies should protect themselves by banning counterfeit humans — for example, social media bots that pretend to be human users. Before the rise of A.I., it was impossible to create fake humans,...
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it" [Nadine Gordimer Censorship and Its Aftermath]"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide" [Rebecca West The Strange Necessity]"Wherever books are burned, in the end people too will be...
Despite the 1954 law banning political campaigning by tax-exempt groups, many churches are clearly political. Every fall, the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group, organizes “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” encouraging pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit and none have suffered consequenc...
Feb. 24, 2004 - President Bush Announces Support for Constitutional Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage "President Bush backed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Tuesday [Feb. 24, 2004], saying he wants to stop activist judges from changing the definition of the ’most enduring human ...
1961: Illinois Becomes First State to Repeal Law Banning Sodomy “Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to get rid of its sodomy law. It did so in 1961, when it adopted an overall revision of its criminal laws.” —“History of Sodomy Laws and the Strategy that Led Up to Toda...