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4 Nov 7:48 am
REASON TV: Reason Foundation Co-Founder Bob Poole on Ayn
Rand.
17 Aug, 2008 5:54 am
News release: "The Reason Foundation's 17th Annual Report on the Performance of State Highway Systems
measures the performance of all...
20 Feb 11:53 am
... self-rule, but "the problem was that the Indian political leaders had this very Fabian Socialist idea," says Shikha Dalmia, a senior analyst at Reason Foundation and native of India. "And that completely thwarted the entrepreneurship of the country." For
decades would-be entrepreneurs staggered under the weight of corruption and bureaucracy. Want to import a computer for your business? You'd have to get permission from a ...
17 Sep, 2008 5:09 pm
Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation has an interesting Wall Street Journal column explaining some
of the reasons why we should be deeply concerned about John McCain and Barack Obama's...
17 Nov 11:00 am
... for all their hard work to get the agreement and the organization to this point. The Open Web Foundation was formed to address the needs of
the growing communities that are developing specifications outside of the traditional standards process. Communities ... make their necessary patent claims that cover an implementation
of the specification available on royalty free terms that are reasonable and non-discriminatory. The actual terms of that agreement are left to the parties to work out on their
...
8 Jul 9:48 pm
... fundamental right of equality-dignity, which was sufficient ammunition for its conclusion that Section 377 was unconstitutional. In fact, it is for this reason that the bench felt it was unnecessary to deal with the argument based on the fundamental freedoms in Article 19. Could not ... same-sex and opposite
sex partners. Therefore, this aspect of Naz Foundation could be particularly vulnerable on appeal. To bolster its reasoning that Section
377 is hostile to gays, the bench cites Justice O'Connor' ...
6 Jul 9:05 pm
... 17's unprecedented constitutional prohibition on "untouchability" -- a term deliberately left undefined in the Constitution. Naz Foundation
extends the command of Article 17 to abolish new avatars of disability based on sexual identity or ... protecting the sanctity of the home, bedroom, (or, perhaps, in this case, the
closet). This subtle, but skillfully reasoned, aspect of Naz Foundation is its most attractive constitutional feature. I suspect that it
is this feature that will ensure the case is ...
31 Dec, 2006 11:00 pm
... activities. Universities and other recipients in turn have to compete against each other for funds from the many foundations. I believe that such competition and
decentralization of support encourages a more efficient use of resources by ... conservative founder David Packard. I do not know of any large foundations that moved from being
very liberal to becoming conservative. The two main reasons for this shift in philosophy are 1) that the children of successful conservative self-made businessmen ...
8 Jul 2:08 am
... under this section could receive a whipping, in lieu of imprisonment, under the Whipping Act of 1864. In this respect, Naz Foundation is a
bit of a disappointment, as I had fully expected it to discuss the statute's Victorian background and why it had been ... misuse as it is not enforced against homosexuals." Now, besides
the high court's cogent reasons for rejecting this unsubstantiated statement, there was an additional justification for not accepting it. Under our federal scheme of governance,
...
11 Nov 5:07 pm
... fact a conflict between that true conception of the central promise of American life and the conception forwarded by the Heritage Foundation, because if the wealthy elite is able to continue consolidating their stranglehold over the wealth of this ... (WalMart) type business owners. And
they can clearly afford to pay some tax. The Heritage Foundation in items 6 and 7 is simply trying to pull on heart strings. In fact, there is
no reason at all to let the Walton billions accumulate and consolidate ...
31 Dec, 2006 10:51 pm
... founders tend to be more liberal than their fathers. In both cases the main reason is probably that while the creators of the major
foundations invariably are successful businessmen, and business values are conservative, foundation staff are ... extent that
foundation spending substitutes for government spending, the comparison is of two inefficient forms of enterprise, and the foundations
may be the less inefficient form. I agree with Becker that the fact that a person like Bill Gates or Warren ...
2 May, 2007 4:23 pm
... there are five reasons why virtual worlds merit this attention or why foundations have a reason to educate themselves about
virtual worlds and visual technologies. This is, by no means, a summary of the meeting or reflective of any consensus among ... activists with researchers. The list of rationales is
longer than what I have catalogued but there is a symbiotic opportunity for foundations to catalyze social justice in virtual world communities and, in turn, for virtual world
communities to play a ...
10 Nov 10:58 pm
... fact a conflict between that true conception of the central promise of American life and the conception forwarded by the Heritage Foundation, because if the wealthy elite is able to continue consolidating their stranglehold over the wealth of this ... (WalMart) type business owners. And
they can clearly afford to pay some tax. The Heritage Foundation in items 6 and 7 is simply trying to pull on heart strings. In fact, there is
no reason at all to let the Walton billions accumulate and consolidate ...
23 Feb 5:55 am
... from Madoff investments is serious, the matter is not the primary thrust of this installment. Irrespective of whether or not private foundations are penalized for their
investing with Madoff, the are numerous significant governance and compliance principles that may be ... in the best interest of the 501(c)(3) Entity Integrity - the obligation of a
fiduciary to act consistently, reasonably and in good faith and to maintain confidentiality of proprietary information of the 501(c)(3) Entity Loyalty ...
11 Oct 3:54 am
... right to privacy and dignity under Article 21 and is discriminatory under article 14 and 15. For strategic reasons, Naz Foundation
followed the second option above. And the judges endorsed this line of reasoning. The net result ... , and may therefore be devoid of any "intelligible differentia". Secondly,
the alleged differentia appears to have no reasonable nexus to the object sought to be achieved by the legislation. To reiterate a point made earlier, the state has no business
regulating private ...
10 Sep, 2007 11:38 am
... far as I can tell there is no extended discussion of the moral philosophers who have worked on the foundations of normativity and the on the question whether human rights can
be affirmed from a plurality of moral and religious perspectives ... incredulity about secularist moral conceptions. After hearing from Perry, I should make it clear that I have no
reason to believe that Perry was intentionally aiming at disrespect or that what I interpret as a lack of charity was intentional distortion on
his ...
9 Mar 7:59 am
... of penalty excise taxes for imprudent investments and/or the potential for "clawback" by the trustee for the Madoff assets if the private foundation received substantial and disproportionate payments as compared to the average return for all other investors. While 501(c ... to the prospects for
recovery of monies and progress with related civil and criminal cases. A second reason is that the new requirements for disclosure in 2008
Filings will make it necessary for a 501(c)(3) Entity to generate new ...
14 Aug, 2006 6:44 am
... can arise. In other words, I embark on a journey to understand the reasons for a peculiar recurrence in attempts to overcome the limitations of human normative
foundational frameworks. For that purpose I will start with the insights of a 19th century German ... the constant thirst, the lust, for murder. The substance of deconstruction
is process - the process of murder, of the crucifixion of foundations of substantive assumptions and belief, of permanency of norms and law, an endlessly repetitive ...
10 Sep, 2008 10:27 am
... clarity"-a simple vision of good and evil that activates deep seated fears in much of the electorate. Democrats, in contrast, appeal to reason with their long-winded explorations of policy options for a complex world." Read the whole article, and/or take the Morality Quiz here. There are
several quizzes available there, but the first to take is the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. Here is our own result: "In the graph below, your scores on each foundation are shown in green. The scores ...
12 Jul 1:45 pm
... Although the judgment uses different terms under homosexuals synonymously, there appears to be no confusion with regard to its reasoning. The use of different terms in
different paragraphs is justified according to their contexts. Q.4: Did the ... this provision which applies to them and which is a source of much harassment- this is what the court is
suggesting in Naz Foundation. B. The Court was also confronted with several actual cases of harassment by the police against homosexuals by
abusing S ...
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