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Amanda Blackhorse, a Navajo who successfully moved a federal agency to withdraw trademark protections from the Washington Redskins because it considers the team's name derogatory, lives on a reservation where Navajos root for the Red Mesa High School Redskins. She opposes this name; the Native Americans who picked and retain it evidently do not.
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In today's regulatory state, agencies often do pretty much as they please, exercising discretion unconstrained by law.
In today's regulatory state, agencies often do pretty much as they please, exercising discretion unconstrained by law.
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Thomas Sowell is correct that "some people are in the business of being offended, just as Campbell is in the business of making soup,"
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People offended by this might be similarly distressed if they knew that "Oklahoma" is a compound of two Choctaw words meaning "red" and "people."
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When two Oregon bakers chose, for religious reasons, not to provide a cake for a same-sex wedding, an Oregon government official explained why tolerance meant coercing the bakers: "The goal is to rehabilitate." Tolerance required declaring the bakers' beliefs and practices intolerable. We are going to discover whether a society can be congenial while its government is being coercive regarding wedding cakes and team names.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will062814.php3#.U7IqGd0--yM
Jewish World Review
June 28, 2014
Are you offended?
By George Will
By George Will
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