Forum: Politics
12-21-2005, 06:34 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 243
Re: President had legal authority to OK taps
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My understanding is that the NYT bruhaha is about eavesdropping on communications between U.S. citizens and foreign contacts. More info on what you are stating would be appreciated.
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Forum: Politics
12-21-2005, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 243
Re: President had legal authority to OK taps
The shoddy argumentation evidenced in your link is characteristic of Bush apologetics. There is no dispute or controversy over whether Bush can eavesdrop of foreign communications without a warrant....
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Forum: Politics
12-09-2005, 07:29 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 301
Re: Harold Pinter on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq
"Democracy - A form of government in which the people elect their lawmakers"
Then Iraq under Saddam was a democracy and Israel isn't. Saddam was elected and the residents of the territories have...
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Forum: Politics
12-09-2005, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 249
Re: Peggy Noonan on Imigration
Some people no doubt "oppose" illegal immigration for no other reason than its illegality, and to the same degree oppose illegal tax deductions, traffic violators and the like. But "illegaltiy" is...
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Forum: Politics
12-08-2005, 11:11 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 301
Re: Harold Pinter on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq
"Those words mean very specific things."
Perhaps they should but the propaganda apparatus has turned them into buzzwords. "Terrorism," for example, is by definition something the U.S. never does...
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Forum: Politics
12-08-2005, 10:56 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 249
Re: Peggy Noonan on Imigration
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Taxing is meant to raise revenue, period. Not to control other peoples lives, businesses, who they hire, or what they spend their money on. The GOP doesn't target taxes like this because...
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Forum: Politics
12-08-2005, 10:18 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 301
Re: Harold Pinter on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq
I understand your argument to be this: If a country is led by a sadistic leader, then that country is fair game for conquest by the U.S. and it is ridiculous to argue that any such effort could be...
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Forum: Politics
12-08-2005, 09:43 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 309
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Forum: Politics
12-08-2005, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 249
Re: Peggy Noonan on Imigration
The non-sequitur queen at it again. Typically without a shred of evidence, Noonan contends that today's anti-immigrant zealots are a new breed concerned primarily with abstract rule-of-law issues...
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Forum: Politics
12-08-2005, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 301
Harold Pinter on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq
The following paragraphs were excerpted from Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. (http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html )
The essence of his charge is...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 02:25 PM
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Replies: 147
Views: 879
Re: The Crusades
I note that you don't and can't even deny the following statement from my last post:
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The fact remains that you advocate cruelty (land confiscation, war, etc.) toward innocent members of...
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Forum: Politics
12-02-2005, 03:08 AM
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Replies: 147
Views: 879
Re: The Crusades
This is another tacit agreement: instead of responding to the evidence, you resort to meangingless denials. The fact remains that you advocate cruelty (land confiscation, war, etc.) toward innocent...
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Forum: Politics
12-01-2005, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 147
Views: 879
Re: The Crusades
I take your refusal to address my proof of your racism as tacit agreement with my position.
The rest is all silly fantasy and hypocrisy. Of course I've never said anything suggesting that it's...
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Forum: Politics
12-01-2005, 05:47 PM
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Replies: 147
Views: 879
Re: The Crusades
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"The historical context that led to the crusades, however, should not be forgotten: Muslim armies forcibly speading Islam over ever-growing swathes of forcibly conquered lands."
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Forum: Politics
10-07-2005, 03:48 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 268
Re: Understanding Sharia
So you think "the policy of the Bush administration" (1) is to create secular, rights-oriented democracies; (2) together with the undeniable promotion and backing of the proposed Iraqi constitution,...
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Forum: Politics
10-06-2005, 04:07 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 268
Re: Understanding Sharia
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My campaign of extermination would be simple, invade Muslim countries one by one and install democratic, secular, regimes. This is the policy of the Bush Administration . . .
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Forum: Politics
09-20-2005, 02:56 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 284
Re: Constiutional thought question
It would be unconstitutional under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, the same provision under which federal courts review legislation regarding reproductive rights and privacy. You might...
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Forum: Politics
09-16-2005, 12:06 PM
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Replies: 75
Views: 464
The \"well-regulated\" unbridled freedom
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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State . . ."
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The "obvious purpose" of the Second Amendment therefore has nothing to do with any rights...
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Forum: Politics
09-01-2005, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 266
Re: Israel foreign aid
The quote's apparently a hoax. After making the usual rounds in the fringe community, a slightly different version of it appeared when Georgie Anne Geyer put it in one of her columns, prompting the...
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Forum: Politics
08-29-2005, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 77
Views: 375
The racist, skinhead, neo-nazi Minutemen
Here are some nifty pictures (http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/08/minutemen-home-for-extremists_08.html) of nazi Minutemen at a rally, flying their swastika flags, hassling jews, etc. Check out...
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Forum: Politics
08-29-2005, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 181
Re: Illegal Immigrants
Your limited concern about "illegal ones" who just happen to be foreign is telling. "Illegal" immigrants are just people who violated immigration laws. Yet you deal every day with all sorts of law...
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Forum: Politics
08-28-2005, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 135
Typical GOP Fraud
Most Americans lean toward the left on most issues. Conservatives therefore have to garnish their legislation with focus-group tested slogans that appeal to values of fairness, equality, concern,...
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Forum: Politics
08-27-2005, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 149
Re: west bank
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Sharon refused negotiations altogether, well before the suicide bombings began, and continued to refuse them whenever they stopped
This is a lie. Arafat and Barghouti announced the...
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Forum: Politics
08-27-2005, 08:20 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 149
Re: west bank
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A dozen people who follow and write about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a living
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There's a simple test for this: find the offer that Barak supposedly made and...
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Forum: Politics
08-26-2005, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 386
Re: \"Oh. He didn\'t know!..\"
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"if we are so imperialistic, why haven't we expanded our territory more?:
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Under this defintion the British in India or the Soviets in Eastern Europe were't "imperialists"...
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