Brendan Foht

@bfoht

all I'm saying is give Reason a chance Send reasonable things only to me by electronic mail: bfoht at thenewatlantis dot com

Washington, D.C.
Joined November 2011

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    Just to be clear: Trump brought out a grieving family to use as a part of a political performance meant to demonize immigrants as being inherently violent when the research clearly shows that immigrants, both documented & undocumented, commit less crime than native born Americans

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  2. Jan 29

    I guess I could have listened to it in online DC anyway, but it's good to be able to listen again to Attention Surplus Disorder, Calgary's long-running late-night prog radio show

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    Jan 27

    “The case for banning human cloning has never been stronger: Scientists no longer need cloned human embryos to make patient-specific stem cells, and cloning to produce children remains one of the last taboos in American society—for now.”

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    Really something that many who pride themselves on skepticism of excessive govt power don't even question how denying felons—who served time, who are trying to rebuild their lives—the right to vote is supposed to be a legitimate restriction

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  5. Jan 27

    I'm just glad that it was the actually good critically-acclaimed-scary-movie Get Out, and not the actually terrible critically-acclaimed-scary-movie It Comes At Night that got an Oscar nomination

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  6. Jan 26

    for all the Americans discovering this Jordan Peterson character: why not give Canada's much less ridiculous famous Jungian a try?

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    Jan 25

    the fundamental point, which always needs reiterating, is that "illegal immigration" is a bankrupt concept in many cases, since the Church holds that out of need there are very many who have the right to migrate - which is often unjustly denied to them

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  8. Jan 25

    FAIR seems to say that it doesn't serve the interests of American citizens, which is weird, because it's American citizens who sponsor their relatives these guys seem to say the problem is that it's making America too crowded (?!)

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  9. Jan 25

    does anyone have any idea why "chain migration" (i.e. family reunification) is considered a problem at all?

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    Jan 24

    The implicit idea here is that the millions of families that DACA helps don't count, and that Democrats only want to help them because of some abstract philosophical commitment

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  11. Jan 22

    and the fact that skirting ethical obligations to the most vulnerable gives countries a more efficient way to do research doesn't justify a race-to-the-bottom in ethical standards

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  12. Jan 22

    the vulnerability of patients (including, especially, the terminally ill, the less educated) is a reason *for* rigorous informed consent, not an excuse for ignoring it

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    Jan 11

    Good tweet. I would add, since Dems aren't making the argument: chain migration is good. People lead happier & more successful lives if they bring family with them.

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    15 Dec 2017

    If you want to hear me angrily rant for an hour, ask me about DC, Bloomingdale, and the affluent homeowners who want to seal the neighborhood in amber to inflate the value of their homes.

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    9 Dec 2017

    the Washington Post's Dave Weigel is the latest journalist to be targeted on the President's twitter account

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    1 Dec 2017

    Another example of racism in Canadian history

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    28 Nov 2017

    A preemptive strike won’t eradicate N Korea’s nuclear weapons and it will make a nuclear war more likely. Going to war to stop missile tests is a very bad idea. Me in :

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  18. 28 Nov 2017

    tfw you're a buffered self, master of the meaning of things, invulnerable to cosmic forces and demons &c

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    27 Nov 2017

    My take: children prying their legs from alligator mouths is actually an argument for more parental supervision.

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    Melania has hired the Blair Witch to do holiday decor, and sorry haters: I, for one, think it hits the perfect note of solstice doom.

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