United Way. On Gun Ownership And Policy, 'A Country Of Chasms' Hide captionGun enthusiast Paul Gwaltney at Blue Ridge Arsenal, in Chantilly, Va.
Gwaltney, an NPR listener, agreed to host a discussion about guns with friends and colleagues. Becky Lettenberger/NPR Gun enthusiast Paul Gwaltney at Blue Ridge Arsenal, in Chantilly, Va. Sports Ethics: Mapping the Issues. Sports Ethics: Mapping the Issues By Kirk O.
Hanson and Matt Savage Between the recent disciplining of Olympic badminton teams for intentionally losing in early rounds to obtain a more favorable seed, to the "bounty scandal" involving the New Orleans Saints, to the cover-up of child sexual abuse occurring at Penn State, the field of sports has been a fertile one for ethical analysis lately. And of course, there are the perennial ethical issues in sports, such as doping, recruitment violations, and cheating. But what do we really mean when we talk about sports ethics? This set of materials was developed to answer that question.
What Role Does Ethics Play in Sports? Kirk O. August 2012 Photo by Photomatt28 available under a Creative Commons license of www.flickr.com. Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends. In Historic Move, States Legalize Marijuana. Now What? By Nicole Flatow "In Historic Move, States Legalize Marijuana.
Now What? " For the first time in history, two states passed laws yesterday to legalize and regulate marijuana for recreational use. The successful ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington, backed by numerous law enforcement officials, signal exasperation with the failed War on Drugs, and a willingness to better tailor the legal system to states’ public safety and public health goals. A similar measure in Oregon did not pass. Both laws will legalize possession of less than an ounce of marijuana for individuals 21 and older, and set up mechanisms for regulation of marijuana similar to alcohol. Federal government officials have not yet indicated how they will react to these laws, but they have been increasingly aggressive in their crackdowns of dispensaries that sell medical marijuana – though not patients who consume it — in the 17 states where it is legal (Massachusetts became the 18th last night). Using NCAA Academic Performance Metrics Effectively: No Slam Dunk - Chicago Policy Review.
Authors describe the implications of certain NCAA academic performance metrics With big-time college sports programs reaping millions in television and sponsorship deals, the need to keep the student in student-athlete has never been more important.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) uses three different performance metrics to track the academic progress of student-athletes. However, the NCAA delegates the challenge of determining which metrics to use, or the weights to assign to them, to university administrators. In an article for The Journal of Higher Education, Larry LaForge and Janie Hodge describe four policy issues that higher education policymakers are likely to face when they determine the parameters of academic performance among student-athletes. A Giant Statistical Round-Up of the Income Inequality Crisis in 16 Charts - Derek Thompson. Now we are engaged in a great tug-of-war over a few points in the top tax rate in Washington.
But even if the White House pulls hardest, it won't amount to much of a victory for the long-suffering middle class. The sources of their income stagnation are too deep, too varied, and too long-term for Clinton-era tax rates to cure them. "There is a huge amount of focus on progressive taxes in our policy world but progressive taxes are not much of a solution to this," said Lawrence Mishel, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. "We need to get unemployment down rapidly. We need to greatly change our labor standards. He's right: The middle class crisis -- and its resulting income inequality -- is the most important economic story of our time. Here we go: The income of a typical working-age family grew considerably in the late 1990s. Adding to the mystery is the remarkable de-coupling of productivity from real hourly compensation for all workers, including college graduates.
Locke and unload: Why the NRA doesn't understand rights - Opinion. When the NRA finally broke its silence one week after the massacre of children in Newtown, its searing screed blasting everyone else for the carnage, and blaming everything but guns should have surprised no one.
Its proposed "solution" - protecting schools with armed guards - is ludicrously misguided in multiple ways, not least by the simple fact that Columbine High School was protected by two armed guards, to no avail, not to mention the statistical record, highlighted in a report from the Children's Defense Fund, which shows that "the 5,740 children and teens killed by guns in 2008 and 2009 would fill more than 229 public school classrooms of 25 students each" - a rate of more than two Newtown massacres a week. But if we want get to the core of the NRA's madness, it helps enormously to consider its warped worldview on the one hand - where "the only way to stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun" - and its complete misunderstanding of rights on the other hand.
Locke and key.