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[Progressive Democrats of America Blog] But violence and the wallowing in vengeful conflict that has characterized our national discourse and international policy of Endless (and Fruitless) War is not the only mode of expression and resolution available. In fact, violence begets violence - as we have seen - and leaves no room or time for peace and other expressions of conflict and growth.

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[Caseytime.com] Casey Muratori's Weblog: This doesn't seem to be part of the global discourse.Yet it seems self evident that, if we want to spend time arguing overthe rightness of things like creationism, we should have first come toan agreement about why we should even care if it is right. Otherwise,we're spending a lot of time arguing over the answer to an irrelevantquestion.

[Volokh.com] The Volokh Conspiracy - -: UPDATE: And here's an unintentionally ironic comment from John Sebert, consultant to the ABA, last seen shilling for the ABA's new "diversity" racial preference requirements, defending the use of LSATs in admissions in today's Chronicle of Higher Education (temp link): "It's sort of a consumer-protection issue," he said on Monday. "We want to be sure that law schools aren't admitting a substantial number of students who are unlikely to be successful in their program or in their attempts to pass the bar." So why is it okay for law schools to admit African American students with scores that guarantee that many of them "are unlikely to be successful in their program or in their attempts to pass the bar"?