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I only care about the deficit when it is politically expedient and fits into my pre-conceived notions of where this country ought to head, sorry.
Preemption is not a great argument against the law. It is perfect from a constitutional perspective, but the policy implications of such a law are...
Long article, but a good read. Thanks for posting. I think an important addendum to this article are studies on social mobility in the U.S....
I like all this distraction. It might even allow something like comprehensive immigration reform to get passed. I mean probably not, but it sure...
All of those offhand examples are simplifications because simplification lends itself more toward short form posts on a message board. As I...
I'm glad we as a people have finally woken up about this. Both parties keep electing people who campaign on promises of security. We naively...
Kojirou, I cannot prove that we entered WWII because we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. I also cannot prove that we entered WWII because of the...
Why are people upset about this but not upset at all by the fact that we gerry-mander specifically with partisan politics in mind? That stands out...
It did happen during the Bush Admin and liberals did not start create a media spectacle and carpet bomb the airwaves about it....
There is no functional difference. If you are promoting someone in the public sphere, you are campaigning for them. If you link to an article...
Yeah items that require intricate circuitry and metal will be safe for quite awhile. The sex toy industry is screwed though.
It is good to see that you are against something that made it into the bill at the behest of Republicans. Write Senators Cruz and Cornyn to urge...
Ted Cruz has some good ideas and bad ideas. I agree with him that we should be raising the visa cap per year. The rest of his ideas are bad....
Wouldn't it be better if everyone was raised with their own version of history and culture: some were taught that the world is 6000 years old;...
It's easy to fall into the trap of saying that any sort of tragedy shouldn't be politicized. Whether you lean one way or the other politically...
The Sci-Fi nerd in me says that Planetes is the best anime ever. It's about garbagemen in space cleaning up debris. Given recent news reports...
It is easier to show causation and create a story when you have a couple of perps running around killing people based on an extreme ideology. It...
It's called the Southern Strategy and it is the strategy that Republicans have been using for the last couple decades to divide people based on...
Asians are screwed in the utmost by unspoken affirmative action for white people at many top universities....
That takes the realization that many things which we accept as the natural and right state of things are based on our cultural outlook. That type...
