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Asian American names are “too hard to deal with”
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is probably more worthy of mockery than scorn: A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.… The exchange occurred late Tuesday as the House Elections Committee heard testimony from Ramey Ko, a representative of the Organization of…
pondering the omnipotence paradox
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Aziz Poonawalla
Consider the classic omnipotence paradox, expressed as a logical conundrum thus: Posit an omnipotent God who created the Universe. Can God create a stone He cannot lift? If the answer is yes, then there exists a stone that God cannot lift, hence God is not omnipotent. If the answer is no, then God cannot do…
Madison, WI – terrorist target?
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Aziz Poonawalla
I live in the Madison area, and had absolutely no clue that any of this drama was playing out until I overheard someone talking about it the next morning: A pilot who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight school and was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets, was taken…
Better to be Jewish in Bahrain than Shi’a
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Aziz Poonawalla
Bahrain is aggressively courting it’s tiny remnant of a Jewish community: In the tense landscape of the Middle East, there is little room left for Jewish Arabs, a tiny minority in this country as well as in places like Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. But in Bahrain, the king, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, has taken unprecedented…
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