MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'amnesty'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:30:59 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4883557&cid=t_376672_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWkpgfn881yw%2F By Jim HarperThis weekend, New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat wrote a piece full of common sense thinking about immigration control and the E-Verify federal background check system. “Common sense”—or “what most people think”—is an interesting thing: When generations of direct experience accumulate, common sense becomes one of the soundest guides to action. Think of common law, its source deep in history, molded in tiny increments over hundreds of years. Common law rules against fraud, theft, and violence strike a brilliant balance between harm avoidance and freedom. When most people lack first-hand knowledge of a topic, though, common sense can go quite wrong. Such is the case with ”common sense” in the immigration area, which is not a pro... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4883557 Tue, 31 May 2011 17:28:25 +0100 4883557 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245289&cid=t_376672_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLMErsLDZ_9E%2F By Daniel GriswoldIn a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to consider bills such as the DREAM Act, approved by the House last evening and on tap for a vote in the Senate as early as today. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would offer legal status to students who came to the United States illegally before they turned 16 and have lived here for more than five years. To gain legal status they would need to complete high school, and then two years of college or military service. Once implemented the act would legalize about 65,000 students a year. If our immigration policy was more in line with what I’ve been advocating for years, we would not have the large population of illegal immigrants that we do today because more legal alternatives would have been available. A... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245289 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:44:18 +0100 4245289 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4179360&cid=t_376672_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F11%2F18%2Fone-third-of-a-college-class-caught-cheating%2F I must be getting old. When I was in college, and then again in graduate school, there was a simple expectation. I was there to learn, the university was there to help me learn. They do that through centuries’ old methods — teaching in classrooms, testing on that material, and occasionally having some hands-on experiences in the laboratory or on computers. This isn’t rocket science (unless you’re studying rocket science). So why was I so surprised when I watched the video (linked to below) where a professor teaching a management class discovered a statistical anomaly while grading his classes’ midterm exams. His startling findings? Rampant cheating. Because a kind of amnesty was offered to the class of 530 students, over 200 students eventually admitted to ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4179360 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:49:27 +0100 4179360 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3876851&cid=t_376672_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F08%2F17%2Fstop-violence-against-women%2F : Amnesty International Stop Violence Against Women campaign commissioned by Amnesty International. Other images from the campaign are here. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: amnesty international, niklas alm vostro, sofia cederström vostro, stop violence against women, sweden, volontaire (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3876851 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:41:01 +0100 3876851 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3729847&cid=t_376672_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fwomens-rights-iranian-woman-to-be-stoned%2F image via The Huffington Post Let’s face it: The Middle East is a dangerous place to be if you’re a woman. Just last week we learned about innocent women locked up in an Afghanistan prison for fabricated crimes, and today we read on The Huffington Post about an Iranian mother of two who could be stoned to death at any moment. Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani was accused of adultery in 2006 and received a punishment of 99 lashes. Her case was then re-opened, and she was put on trial for the alleged murder of her husband. Even though she was acquitted, the judge handed down her death penalty order – even though there was no evidence. Last week, Amnesty International called for Iran to halt all executions, but the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty says tha... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3729847 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:51:53 +0100 3729847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3665958&cid=t_376672_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8ioEw_gRbHc%2F By Daniel GriswoldFormer Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson tries to answer that very good question in an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s a question my conservative Republican friends should ask themselves as the party tries, once again, to turn public opposition to illegal immigration into political success at the polls. Robinson correctly observes that Reagan would have had nothing to do with the anger and inflamed rhetoric that so often marks the immigration debate today. “Ronald Reagan was no kind of nativist,” he concludes, noting that Reagan was always reaching out to voters beyond the traditional Republican base, including the fast-growing Hispanic population. It’s worth remembering that Reagan signed the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which ope... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3665958 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:32:07 +0100 3665958 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1198052&cid=t_376672_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F03%2Frise-up-little-blogger%2F I remember last year, when the A-listers de-linked all the smaller blogs from their rolls, in what double-talking Atrios christened Blogroll Amnesty Day. The small blogs responded in true opposition by filling their own blogrolls with the links of those who had been kicked off the big blogs, in a classy demonstration of support [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1198052 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:18 +0100 1198052