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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. – James Madison
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults because I think a general government necessary for us, and believe further that this is likely to be well-administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you were free of self interest... and very few of us can make that claim... the world would look like a seething madhouse of runaway appetites. -- les visible
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A taboo question for Israelis »
Posted by: berkeley 3 hours, 4 minutes ago in Political Opinion
If anybody treated us like we're treating the people in Gaza, what would we do?
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Why "Healthcare Reform" Is Not Reform »
Posted by: berkeley 3 hours, 21 minutes ago in Political Opinion
2. The sickcare system diverts ever greater sums of national income to a handful of cartels, in essence diverting trillions of dollars away from preventive ...
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Solutions to Mexico's Drug Crisis - WSJ.com »
Posted by: berkeley 3 hours, 37 minutes ago in Political Opinion
To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of ...
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Craving terrorist melodrama »
Posted by: ameliog 3 hours, 50 minutes ago in Political Opinion
As dumb as our political discourse typically is, it gets dumber by many magnitudes whenever there's a terrorism-related scare (of the Islamic variety).
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More on Jim DeMint and Republican Super-Hypocrisy »
Posted by: ameliog 3 hours, 54 minutes ago in Political Opinion
The hypocrisy of the Republicans on the recent failed terrorist attack in Detroit is mind-boggling, even by their own super-high hypocrisy standards. When the Bush ...
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- Happy New Year 2010 »Posted by: rightfromwrong 5 hours, 19 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment
I wish you all a very peaceful and blissful New Year 2010. Lets resolve our differences and try to see oneness in all.Hope you ...
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Toxic water in Iraq - Hundreds of National Guardsmen potentially exposed to toxic chemical at Iraq water treatment plant in 2003 »
Posted by: bubba2 6 hours, 27 minutes ago in Political News
During 2003, more than 700 soldiers passed through the Qarmat Ali plant in Iraq, mostly Guard units from Indiana, Oregon, South Carolina and West Virginia ...
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- Otis Redding Singing My Girl »Posted by: rightfromwrong 7 hours, 17 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment
Otis Redding Singing My Girl from The 60s Ready Steady Go
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NJ Senate President calls on Janet Napolitano to resign »
Posted by: Temlakos 7 hours, 42 minutes ago in Political News
The president of the New Jersey State Senate sent a letter today to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, suggesting that she should resign on account ...
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Shoes vs. Underwear: The GOP's New Terror Double Standard | Crooks and Liars »
Posted by: mesodude 8 hours, 34 minutes ago in Political News
The similarities between failed airplane bombers Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are striking. Each Al Qaeda convert was radicalized in London. Reid and Abdulmutallab ...
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Sen. Hatch admits GOP standard practice was to run up deficit »
Posted by: mesodude 8 hours, 39 minutes ago in Political News
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow believes she has found the smoking gun proving Republicans' hypocrisy on health care and the budget deficit: an admission by Utah ...
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Massive US Corruption Scam in Obama´s Afghanistan War »
Posted by: hyperbola 9 hours, 45 minutes ago in News
As President Obama prepares a massive military buildup in Afghanistan, a House subcommittee has launched an investigation into whether Defense Department contractors are paying off ...
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Zionists/Fox/Murdoch again producing phony war propaganda for Americans »
Posted by: hyperbola 9 hours, 56 minutes ago in Religion
U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on ...
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Detroit Airliner Terror Incident - How Convenient! »
Posted by: hyperbola 10 hours, 12 minutes ago in Political Opinion
I am not one that sees conspiracies everywhere, but I do like a good Convenience Theory. Like the one that is coming together out of ...
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Federal court restricts Taser use by police »
Posted by: ameliog 11 hours, 43 minutes ago in News
Ninth Circuit ruling - allowing an officer to be held liable for injuries a man suffered after being Tasered - sets a precedent that may force agencies ...
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