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 'egalitarianism'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:52:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560249&cid=t_172627_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOrBan6QDHlc%2F By David BoazAt the Britannica Blog I write: Many commentators have seen a shift to the right in American politics over the past two years — the reaction to spending, bailouts, and Obamacare; the rise in conservative self-identification in polls; the 2010 elections. But there’s another trend going on as well. I described it in 2009 as a “civil liberties surge.” And this week there’s new evidence. A new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds long-term growth in support for legal abortion, gun rights, marijuana legalization, and gay marriage. The graphs on all these topics from Pew are pretty impressive, as is another one from the General Social Survey included in the Britannica post. I go on to note: These new poll results should be no surprise. Pa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560249 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:06:57 +0100 4560249 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625482&cid=t_172627_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Ftm7cso7dmCk%2F By David BoazWhat is it with modern American liberals and taxes? Apparently they don’t just see taxes as a necessary evil, they actually like ‘em; they think, as Gail Collins puts it in the New York Times, that in a better world “little kids would dream of growing up to be really big taxpayers.” But you really see liberals’ taxophilia coming out when you read the reviews of the new movie Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe. If liberals don’t love taxes, they sure do hate tax protesters. Carlo Rotella, director of American Studies at Boston College, writes in the Boston Globe that this Robin Hood is “A big angry baby [who] fights back against taxes” and that the movie is “hamstrung by a shrill political agenda — endless fake-populist ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625482 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:07:47 +0100 3625482 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3153397&cid=t_172627_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Ffuture-reasons-for-interrogation-by.html 1. Tzitzit while ovarian.2. Female etrogging.3. Giving tzedakah while under the influence of X chromosomes.4. Studying Torah . . . while female!5. The tallit was too cute.6. Singing. Singing is just bad. All singers should be arrested a priori.7. Mitzvot are disruptive in general to the status quo. All the more so when done by women.8. Arrest them all! Let Ovadiah Yosef sort them out. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3153397 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:15:00 +0100 3153397 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424074&cid=t_172627_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fnow-happiness-is-right.html A Pew Poll measuring the "happiness" of the American people is out, and good news for me, people get happier as they age. But that is not why I brought it up. Rather, I was taken by the analysis of the poll presented by science writer Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Director of the on-line science journal LiveScience.com, which, I think, indirectly illuminates the left wing politics that I worry now permeates the science sector to the detriment of both science and society.Britt mostly focuses on how happiness is aided by material prosperity, which is undoubtedly true, but which I doubt is the primary source of life satisfaction and joy. (According to a 2006 Pew Poll other factors include religious belief, marriage, living in sunny climes, etc.) But this is the paragraph that hit me as decidedl... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424074 Tue, 19 May 2009 15:05:00 +0100 2424074 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1283405&cid=t_172627_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fdestroying-oxford-and-cambridge.html They can afford University feesThree weeks ago, Wat Tyler got himself into hot water by pointing out the number of immigrants coming in to this country over the last ten years and observing that certain groups of those immigrants have more children than others. Dr Crippen is going to take a similar hot bath having read the latest bit of Marxist-Leninist crap emanating from the government.Oxbridge cash is cut over failure to widen accessAlexandra Frean and David ThorleyThe Universities of Oxford and Cambridge will see a drop in government funding next year for failing to attract students from working class backgrounds. Cambridge’s grant will fall by 39 per cent from £608,355 to £371,445, while Oxford’s will fall by 37 per cent from £671,846 to £425,733.Last year 56 per cent of stu... 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