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Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant

Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant

By Aaron T. Knapp • on July 14, 2009

Devra Davis nearly died from taking a popular painkiller. She later discovered that previous lawsuits exposed that the manufacturer knew the drug could be lethal, but used judicially approved secret settlements to conceal the information from the public.  Alarming?  It should be.  The story is not unique.  There are heaps of reported instances in

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Parties Without Partisanship

Parties Without Partisanship

By Aaron T. Knapp • on May 12, 2009

How can you have postpartisanship when there are two dominant political parties?  The answer lies in a distinction.  Yes, another one of those pesky intellectual distinctions.  The distinction is between partisanship on the one hand, and party-affiliation on the other. Party-affiliation is a function

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The Vision Requirement

The Vision Requirement

By Aaron T. Knapp • on March 31, 2009

In a time of big crisis, America needs leadership and vision.  We need something to believe in. In a recent Time magazine article, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House during the Clinton era and the father of modern

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