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Are you serious? There is a ton of research on the topic. Read the book "The Dragon's Gift." You can just look at economic growth rates of...
Of course they're loans. What country is just going to straight up give away enormous amounts of money as a gift with no expectations of any...
So what? The results speak for themselves. Less than a decade of Chinese investment has done more good for many African countries than decades of...
America's natural environment was horrendous during the Industrial Revolution and in the years following. And we still managed to clean it up....
You realize that what you're describing is the literal definition of bigotry? Merriam-Webster: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes...
Can you read? Do you even know what the words you are typing mean? Of course my last observation was an anecdote, but unlike Sweet Lou I never...
What are you talking about? Your anecdotal evidence means nothing. America is one of the easiest developed nations for immigrants to access, both...
Except this particular situation isn't about white people and black people. It's about black people and non-black minorities. The guy here could...
It's already been done in certain states. Like the UC system has essentially been an income-based affirmative action program for a decade because...
There's a thing called the Gini Coefficient that most international NGOs use to measure inequality with 0 being complete equality and 1 being...
I thought they ran out of ammo? Didn't the curly haired douche that got Noah killed say something about having the extra ammo?
Again, I was not discussing the legality or merits of Obama's hypothetical executive order. I even said in my previous post that I was assuming...
Hmm...what else is meaningless? I don't know...maybe posters implying that Obama is being dictatorial or is acting like an emperor because he's...
Don't know if its worth mentioning, but Obama has been really restrained as far as executive orders go. In fact, he's on the low end among recent...
Nominally, its a question of numbers. Closing a school on a religious holiday requires a secular rationale in order to pass constitutional muster...
Why doesn't her mom or dad just sponsor her as a family member? I'm not sure what the wait times are for Mexico (I suspect pretty long), but its...
You do realize that a lot of rape statistics out there, particularly those from countries with questionable criminal justice systems, are based on...
For anyone interested, this is a short statistical analysis of racial disparity in drug arrests for possession done by the BJS:...
While it probably is true that some black people have been prosecuted more severely for drug offenses based solely on their race, the huge...
Well, it depends on what sort of time frame you're looking at. Theoretically, the jobs (mostly manufacturing in the case of outsourcing) could...
