This isn't just liberal propaganda, it's the assertion of non-partisan groups like The Urban Institute, Kaiser Family Foundation and CBO.
At its end, the ideas of the Enlightenment (which championed reason above tradition) are in retreat, as fundamentalism, ethnic nationalism, the self-assertion of non-western cultures and the failings of western societies render Enlightenment ideologies decreasingly influential.
So I was pretty happy in 2005 when IBM, in an obvious PR stunt to get buddy-buddy with the open source community, made its Statement of Non-Assertion of Named Patents Against OSS, ostensibly saying that it would permit open source projects to use any of the items covered by those patents without risk of penalty or lawsuit.
Whatever one thinks of these and other assertions of Presidential non-enforcement power, Judge Kavanaugh did not invent the idea.
Against a background of assertions that non-microbial environmental exposures and other factors cause ALL, this synopsis draws attention to the very plausible possibility that infection(s), perhaps in the context of multifactorial or complex systems, do contribute to childhood ALL.
As several philosophers have written in to point out, it was not Carl Hempel's assertion that "all non-black objects are non-ravens" that was novel ("The non-denial of the non-self", September 2nd).
The decision by the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals will be welcomed by multinationals as well as by many foreign governments, who have protested that U.S. assertion of extraterritorial jurisdiction over the non-U.S.
Whether that polarization has been based on religious views or the assertion of personal freedom, it has been non-productive and even dangerous.
Others claim that the main driving force behind non-Malay involvement in Malayan politics, and their assertion of certain rights, was the increasing number of local-born non-Malays.
The belief is that there is no escape from ideology, and therefore no possibility of non-biased assertion in the public arena.
The most significant assertion of Indian involvement was made during a meeting of the non-aligned states in Sharlm-el-sheikh in 2009.
