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- Has the US lost its place as the "most superest" of superpowers?
- You Say You Want A Revolution?
- "Newsweek" cover story exposes well-funded global-warming denial machine
- Why should the State and Federal Government collect data on race?
- A Question for Atheists concerning ignorance
- Please delete
- California Electoral Vote Split Proposal
- Illegal Immigration is Congress' Fault?
- The Electoral College
- Bush's War Czar says the draft is on the table
- Tangible benefits of space exploration?
- Our obligation to Iraq
- Republicans vs. Democrats
- What's the most likely candidate for 51st state of America?
- The U.S. and Judicial Appointments Now.
- Left vs. Right common ground
- Huckabee finishes 2nd in Ames. Is he now viable?
- The Widow's Mites
- What defines someone as a "man/woman of letters
- What caused the recent stock market crash?
- Democrats: Please Don Not Nominate Hillary!!
- Erasing History - Who? When? How?
- The Ineffective Dissemination of Monotheism
- Rove to resign his WH posts
- Health care
- Did the Greenland colonists really starve to death rather than eat fish?
- What a difference a decade makes...Cheney's assessment of invading Iraq
- U.S. Comptroller General compares our situation to the fall of Rome
- Prove the big bang...
- Would Obama/Richardson be too progressive to win?
- LA Times religion reporter ends up losing faith
- Thoughts on Morality (origins) and non-PC statements.
- What Drives the Political Slant of Daily Newspapers?
- Political Celibacy
- Can we have the Placebo Effect without falsehood?
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre (now in Technicolor!)
- Petraeus report will actually be written by the White House
- Should this Methodist church be obliged to allow gay civil unions on its property?
- U.S. to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a "terrorist" organization
- Anybody believe this? We're virtual, not real?
- Why isn't there a law against dogs peeing/pooping in other people's yards?
- Would it be immoral to create virtual people who suffered?
- What taxes SHOULD churches pay?
- Jose Padilla Found Guilty
- What are the limits on the President's war powers?
- German physicists claim to have broken lightspeed barrier
- Castro's 81st birthday passes with almost no public celebration
- Simulated people, Christianity, and God's rationale
- Prove that you have "dreams".
- What the hell? Why are we giving Israel $30 billion?
- News shouldn't be protected from Youtube, etc.
- Fred Thompson would ban abortion, gay marriage
- Fred Thompson would ban abortion, gay marriage
- Brit, Euro cell phone systems vs US
- FISA court orders Bush to release secret orders on wiretapping to the ACLU
- I wrote a gun control Op/Ed for my student newspaper.
- Does China have any legitimate claim over Taiwan?
- If Hitler had a modern history book...
- Could tax policy stabalize the markets?
- Politicians keep bringing up "The Draft." Would people even go if conscripted?
- Real ID and state rebellion...
- Are some political ideologies/parties more immune from corruption and such?
- War on Drugs or War on Terror: Which should we lose to win the other?
- ...the Prime Directive
- From Russia with love: Stalin was "the most successful leader of the U.S.S.R."
- British generals tell Brown to withdraw troops from Iraq without delay
- 53% of U.S. foreign policy experts now oppose the surge
- Should a State Agency be Required to Accommodate Religion?
- The states should stay out of primaries
- How many people take Global Warming totally on faith?
- How will the troubles in the subprime market affect renters?
- When is enough enough in the Utah mine rescue?
- Leahy: Cheney told (majority) Pub senators they were "not allowed to issue subpoenas"
- During W Admin, 1/400 of taxpayers got almost one-half of economic gains
- Venezuelan legislature approves Chavez' reforms (abolishing presidential term limits)
- DoJ says records re missing WH e-mails are not subject to public disclosure via FOIA
- Are there examples of powerful nations that did not become expansionist?
- Bush says it was a mistake to pull out of Vietnam
- NAACP on Vick and African American celebs in general. Huh?
- The New Republic taken in again?
- Jena Six: Thoughts?
- Is my proposed political system better? (For US Congress)
- Pakistan court rules exiled former PM Nawaz Sharif can come home
- The New Iraq NIE
- A Sam Nunn/Michael Bloomberg candidacy?
- Re the RCC's recent "responsa ad dubia"
- Josh Marshall: "the president now has very different interests than the [U.S.]"
- Pub lobbying firm with close WH ties is working to undermine Maliki's government
- Scientists recreate Out-of-Body Experience
- Are they going to announce Castro's death today? [08-24-2007]
- Gen. Peter Pace will recommend that US forces in Iraq be cut in half next year
- War
- Gonzalez to resign, be replaced by Chertoff?
- Will we ever come to understand one another?
- "Opus" comic strip suppressed
- which party is more underhanded?
- Mother Teresa's collected letters ...
- Ivory-billed woodpecker. Worth the cost for the hunt?
- Is it better to die or live in misery, rather than do something icky?
- In response to primary date change, DNC strips Florida of its 2008 delegates
- "Rolling Stone" exposes "The Great Iraq Swindle"
- Might Dr. Javier Solana be THE anti-Christ?
- Dingell Proposes Elimination of Mortgage Interest Deduction for Houses > 3000 Sq Ft
- SDMB views on punishment for speech
- Lmitations of speech
- Affirmative Action Backfires Have racial preferences reduced the # of black lawyers?
- Rape Babies deserve to die?
- During the "surge," internal refugees in Iraq have more than doubled (to 1.1M)
- Bush getting bad political advice
- I stab you and destroy your kidney, should you get one of mine?
- National identity card for US
- Let's discuss Solictor General (Acting-AG) Paul Clement
- Politicians who disapprove of something morally but still fight hard for it?
- One Life Over Another
- Crossbow vs Gun what if question
- Comprehesive Campaign Reform - in 3 words
- US Troops will not attend inquests into british 'Friendly Fire' deaths
- Could Gonzales succeed himself as the next AG?
- Invasion and Elections
- Bush wants $50 billion more for the war. Will he get it?
- Fired U.S. attorney says the orders came from Bush himself. (But how does he know?)
- Female-on-male rape and pregnancy
- KURSK: Worst German Military Disaster?
- Robert E. Lee- Brilliant tactician or traitor?
- Military Brass Distance Themselves From Iraq Choices
- Should Sen. Craig lose his job/committee posts for restroom cruising?
- Would you have a designer baby?
- Why are Americans (and some Canucks) SOOOOO conservative about metric?
- Latest idiotic "Won't SOMEBODY PLEASE think of the CHILDREN?" moment [school rules]
- Teamsters seek injunction to bar Mexican trucks from the U.S.
- Bush Admin planning post-Labor-Day "product rollout" of war-with-Iran hysteria?
- Would it make sense to standarize wills and make odd bequests irrelevant?
- How America might have avoided - part of - the current wave of Anti-Americanism?
- Fred Thompson to announce his candidacy for POTUS September 6
- Senator Larry Craig: how long before he's history?
- What's up with the states so eager to change their primary dates?
- Is ennui an inevitable consequence of eternal life?
- Should Bush bail out mortage holders?
- Offshore accounts - why are wire transfers to them permitted?
- All things "Gray Rape", Date Rape, and Drunk Sex. . .
- Recession and Inflation Imminent?
- Why do politicians take junkets?
- A very specific question about Randi's million-dollar challenge
- Tony Snow. Good guy or douchebag?
- Does anyone have a NCCAF game that is
- MEXICA TRUCKS in USA-Possible Internationa Incident?
- Drunken Consent.
- Talking warts away
- Could an American state secede?
- Are we developing the wrong new weapons?
- Man arrested in connection with ignoring "bag checker" at Circuit City
- Koran Translations...
- Newsweek: Shi'ites have ethnically cleansed Baghdad
- Do you think "intellectual property" has gotten out of control vs. "fair use"?
- Rape, and the lasting effect it has on humans emotionally
- What is the evolutionary advantage of the placebo effect?
- Venezula's currency plummets in value
- The 75% Solution and The Propaganda Offensive
- Evolutionary Basis for Religion
- Chavez rattling his sabre, re: Falklands.
- If Consciousness is just a chemical reaction do you think we got Gypped?
- California EV Ballot Initiative: Constitutional or Not?
- Paying to avoid war
- Immigration is a human right?
- Suppose the Iranians Did This?
- How often does the military really defend our freedom?
- Should We Be Driving Wider, Shorter Cars?
- Intelligent Design
- Now Sen. Craig says he may not resign after all. Can he do that?
- Inevitable - The Whoppie defends Vick
- Arctic ice twice the area of the UK melted last week
- What Could Halt Chinese Economic Growth?
- How would the legalization of drugs affect drug testing in the workplace?
- Study links food additives to behavioural problems in children
- U.S. officers: Iraq's police force should be disbanded
- Comedian gets the hook for using the N-Word
- Theodicies in the Bible and other scriptures
- Congressional Research Service report: Iraq government near collapse
- Court rules FBI cannot issue "National Security Letters" under USA PATRIOT ACT
- Isn't it time to make a few unilateral gestures to Cuba?
- IMHO all recreational drugs should be legalized for terminally ill people.
- Trivial pursuit and human extinction
- Anybody else concerned by Bush's statement to S Korean Pres?
- "Battery-like device", a.k.a. ultracapatitor...plausible?
- Republicans, The Priesthood and repressed homosexuality (interalized homophobia)
- Operation Northwoods
- Use of Arrest Statistics in Police Department Management
- Bush's one great gift to us: Obama.
- Atheism and sexuality.
- POTUS 2008: the character question
- Knowledge begets responsibility which begets guilt
- Can't Be a Cop AND a Pornstar, Says Ninth
- IF "paranormal" was observed, would it be parnormal?
- Petraeus' approach to counterinsurgency is a cure worse than the disease
- Why is southeast Asia so advanced?
- The Global Warming Crowd and No Nukes c. 1977
- Is the N-word worse than "the N-word"
- Should ordained ministers be excluded from public office?
- Be all that you can be
- How is “winning” the war in Iraq going to defeat Muslim extremist terrorism?
- Shouldn't the war discussion include getting more allies involved?
- Which harmed US more, 9/11/01 or 3/20/03?
- What would be the implications of automated armed forces ie robot armies?
- Cannibalism
- Why don't Americans care about Canada?
- YAGWT - Yet Another Global Warming Thread
- Moral Responsibility if Free Will is Unconscious
- Is Free Will ever a Conscious Event
- Ted Olson for AG?!!
- Did Israel really destroy a Syrian/Iranian military installation?
- Why are people hesitant to use race as a description?
- Pros and cons of patriotism
- The self is not physical, but symbolic
- Are the new forms of trade political?
- NYT gives MoveOn deep ad discount. Does this harm the Times' reputation?
- The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns
- What's the big deal about the Jets getting their signals stolen?
- Is restoration of famous artworks (the national treasure kind) a good idea?
- Repudiations: MoveOn 'Betray Us' ad v. Boehner's "Small Price to Pay" comment
- The leap of faith into absolutes
- Greenspan pulls a Powell.
- 911 Conspiracy theories and Global Warming
- Where the First Humans Black?
- Would time travel save us from religion
- Physicists: Will the laws of physics will work tomorrow?
- Public Schools
- Knowledge via Study Only - Experience NOT Necessary?
- When me becomes I
- Testing people's honesty...
- Kerry vs McCain on Meet The Press
- "Black" = Unaccomplished?
- Blackwater U.S.A. told to leave Iraq
- Will a judge throw the book at OJ because of who he is?
- Resolved: Fred Goldman is an asshole
- Minuteman controversy
- Fed Rate Cut
- No outrage here about the UF taser incident at the Kerry speach?
- Did This Guy Doom The Titanic?
- State Dept. IG accused of blocking probes into contracting fraud in Iraq, Afghanistan
- Unintended effects of biofuels (e.g., ethanol)
- God Bless America, now with 100% more vitriol!
- G. Gordon Liddy-Hero or Criminal?
- The US will tend to totalitarianism with probability 1
- I am interested in disinterested knowledge
- Ontario Election Referendum
- Ethics of using this news video (drunk guy, abusive woman)
- Do you think it's fair that school districts must raise money locally?
- Should people with no children pay taxes for schools?
- Turks shell Iraqi Kurdistan (again)
- Why is Israel a U.S. ally?
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