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Democrat Mark Martinez can’t run for Douglas County sheriff, new election commissioner rules • Nebraska Examiner Democratic candidate Mark Martinez's campaign says county election officials had assured them he met the requirements to run.

The Democratic candidate who was challenging the GOP sheriff of Omaha has been tossed from the ballot: nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/03/13/d...

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...

RIP Jürgen Habermas. I never met him, though I did hear him lecture once. I remember over a decade ago being elated upon discovering that he had cited an article I had written....
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Sigh.

Empirical Logic: Ger. empirische Logik; Fr. logique empirique; Ital. logica empirica. The treatment of logic on the basis or from the point of view of a sensationalist or other markedly empiricist theory of knowledge.

This is Jeanine Pirro answering one question today.

Especially (2) any theory which explains the facts of the universe by referring them to the action of two independent and eternally coexistent principles. Cf. PLURALISM
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Dualism (in philosophy). (1) A general tendency to divide any genus of objects of philosophical thought into two widely separate categories, as saints and sinners, truth and falsehood, &c.; opposed to the tendency to look for gradations intermediate between contraries.
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Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe?

Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban.

Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion.

If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?

Who can we trust but Gail to make such brave and accurate insights?

Ground forces in Iran would be the final betrayal of everything MAGA believed he wouldn't do

Hegseth: Why do the headlines say inflammatory things like “war intensifies”?

Pentagon official press release 3 days ago: Hegseth says war intensifies

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Winning. 😓

Donald Trump said the US does not need Ukraine’s help with anti-drone defence in the Middle East, but Kyiv’s experts are already in the region at the request of the Pentagon, say people familiar with the matter.
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Breaking news: European countries including France have opened talks with Tehran seeking to negotiate a deal to guarantee safe passage for their ships through the Strait of Hormuz, according to people briefed on the efforts. ft.trib.al/MjGIZ7Z

how inextricably he considers the study of Dialectic to be bound up with virtuous living. Aristotle, on the other hand, set this matter right.
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So little did they separate philosophy from esthetic and moral culture that the docti furor arduus Lucreti could clothe an elaborate cosmogony in noble verse, for the express purpose of influencing men's lives; and Plato tells us in many places
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expect that researches into differential equations, stellar photometry, the taxonomy of echinoderms, and the like will ultimately affect the conduct of life—but forthwith in the person and soul of the philosopher himself, rendering him different from ordinary men in his views of right conduct.
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Now those narrators are a cloud of the sanest and soberest minds of antiquity -- Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, Plutarch, Lucian, AElian, and so forth. The Greeks expected philosophy to affect life -- not by any slow process of percolation of forms, as we may
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However, disbelieve the stories if you will; you cannot refuse to admit that they show what kind of man the narrators expected a philosopher to be -- if they were imaginary legends, all the more so.

Susan Haack (1945-2026) - Daily Nous Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami, has died. Professor Haack was well-known for her work in philosophy of logic, epistemology, pragmatism, and philosophy of law. ...

Philosopher Susan Haack has died.

Sheesh. Your H.R. department needs an H.R. department of its own to come and straighten it out.

After watching the prosecution of this war, is anyone still confused about how the felon managed to bankrupt a casino? Dude could eff up a wet dream.

It’s disgusting that they’re treating killing people like they are teenagers playing Call of Duty. 😡

Fake News

Good for him: "For that play to be associated with bombing human beings makes me sick,” Bell told The Washington Post. “I don’t want anything to do with images like that.”

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People need to learn how to be on their phones with headphones. JFC