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needs philosophers. This thought has been nagging at me for a year now, and recently it's been growing like a tumor. One that plenty of folks on the 'net would love to see kill me. People don't put much stock in philosophers these days. The popular impression of philosophy is that it's just rhetoric, just frivolous debating about stuff that can never properly be answered. "Spare me the philosophy; let's stick to the facts!" The funny thing is, it's philosophers who gave us the ability to think rationally, to stick to the facts. If it weren't for the work of countless philosophers,

WATERTOWN — “Shop With a Cop” in Jefferson County is still happening this year, despite the program making a change due to COVID-19, all due to first responders and the local businesses supporting it. The parade of honking fire trucks and lit-up police cars won’t happen, and first responders won’t be teaming up with children like in the past, but the program lives on. Instead of “Shop With a Cop,” it’s “Shop By a Cop” this year, where a first responder was given a Walmart gift card to use on behalf of a child. “Shop By a Cop” is sche...

Pressure on china to level this playing field? >> we're going to continue to work looking at our trade law, what we have to enforce trade agreements. we're going to continue to really pressure chinese leaders, whether it's coming from congress or from the administration on this indigenous innovation policy and meeting their agreements under the wto, world trade organization agreements. >> reporter: taking action against china is not risk-free. fred brooks of the peterson institute says as the biggest economy in the world, the chinese have a lot of clout that they can and will retaliate. >> giv...