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- How would lack of patents affect innovation?
- Are humans inherently "better" than other animals?
- Mexico decriminalizes personal drug stashes; what effect in/on the US?
- Top Secret American Destupization Project
- Legalizing Runaways and Child Labor
- What do free-market capitalism's advocates say about the importance of education?
- Do major sports really need government handouts?
- Economic consequences of a new, cheap, safe, 'infinitely available', energy source
- Pre-Iraq Account of White House Meeting Disclosed.
- EVs: the likely field emerges.
- Voting for someone who doesn't vote
- Is it evil or clever for states to undermine their enemy's money?
- Would a Ross Perot-type third party be more or less likely now?
- How will the US debt be resolved?
- US CDC initiative to promote routine circumcision for all baby boys raises it's head
- Ok. I gotta know: the morality of disequal pay for equal work effort
- The Arctic Convoys- WW 2
- Why Doesn't the Fed Govt Negotiate Lower Drug Prices?
- How would NASA have handled two moons?
- endogeneity problem vs. mediating variable
- Of delusional believers and naive positivist scientism
- Why would/do legislators listen to lobbyists?
- When did the Gadsden Flag become a symbol of the hard Right / extremism?
- Can Atheists Be Parents?
- Of Woo and Scientism
- Am I hateful if I ask...[a bunch of questions from Glenn Beck?]
- Explain this Atheist logic to me.
- 2008 Democratic Convention in July: Does McCain still pick Palin?
- Do physicians have an unusually high sense of financial entitlement?
- So are this kid's parents going to kill her, or what?
- Joe Scarborough convinced single-payer healthcare is the best option
- And Then There Were None (WARNING: Spoilers)
- Who is really pleased with their current health insurance?
- How does Christian killing of witches stack up against Islamic honor killings?
- Does the first amendment really let corporations buy elections?
- What is cognitive dissonance? (neurologically)
- View Michael Moore's SiCKO and then rip-o
- Is this an elaborate whoosh? Is geometry a force?
- Ted Kennedy is dead
- Who would be the ideal person to succeed Ted Kennedy in the Senate?
- Torture Memo
- DUI manslaughter: does the passenger bear responsibility?
- Is it time to switch state industry regulations to federal?
- Does private health insurance really give you options?
- Schools should teach children Critical Thinking
- Competition in auto liability insurance vs. health insurance
- Are We the Same Person from Moment to Moment?
- A nuclear world war III in the early 1980s: Who would have won?
- Cash for Clunkers meant higher prices, no deals for the next two months
- What would politicians/media/people say about Rush Limbaugh if he died?
- Did Chappaquiddick actually make Ted Kennedy more influential?
- What's the best way to fill vacancies in the Senate, or any other elected post?
- Why don't people acknowledge that we're all in the same fish tank? [society is the fish tank]
- Does Abortion Contradict the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
- Challenge to Economic Conservatives
- Vegetarians Are Intolerant Jerks [Moved from BBQ Pit]
- In what ways are countries with UHC less free than the U.S.?
- The Outing of Oliver Sipple
- Does any other country need American military protection any more?
- Pro-Choicers: What makes a person?
- Would You Launch the Nukes
- What's the scriptural support for literalism?
- What AlGore giveth, Obama taketh away (bill gives Exec Br authority over private networks)
- What is the best measurement for which countries are better off than which others?
- Ted Kennedy's 1980 running mate?
- Obama "scares" former P&G VP Lou Pritchett in mass email -- What say you?
- Can a man who has done bad become good?
- Why are city politics so corrupt?
- Japan: DJP takes power. Will this result in real change?
- Try to predict the ripple effect of RFK as president in 1968
- Arctic Sea Hijacking
- Paul Wolfowitz argues against Obama Administration's foreign policy "realism" - with commentary
- Would a "gun republic" be possible? How would it work?
- If Britain had stayed out of WW1?
- 30 billion out of medicare ?
- "That's so gay"
- Would You Use This Power
- Modern US politics and mainstream religion.
- High school band forced to return shirts referencing evolution
- How should we take in opposing political opinions?
- Article 41.2.2 of Bunracht na hEireann
- Disparate Impact
- If Your Parent Had An Affair
- Is there any reason not to use the tax code to shape up Wall Street?
- Should infanticide be legalised?
- Another Federal election - Canada
- Paul Hogan says that "People, Not Places" are the key to Australian Tourism
- The New FCC "Diversity Czar" - An Enemy of Free Speech
- The mindset of Creationists?
- One-sided views of the I/P discussion, and why they hobble understanding as well as resolution.
- Canada grants Refugee Status to White South African: Racist?
- is materialism incompatible with "me"?
- Voting with your Vagina
- Comparing polls about pols: Poles apart?
- More Supreme Court vacancies ahead?
- Expert for Texas Commission concludes no evidence of arson in executed inmate's case
- The human race nears extinction--is forcing a woman to give birth acceptable?
- So are there any pieces of evidence regarding a 9/11 conspiracy which cannot be explained?
- Brainwashing versus Education (Children)
- Just what is so scary or unconstitutional about the Obama Admin's "czars"?
- Why I would vote to bring back the Fairness Doctrine
- How far back should a candidate be held responsible for his statements?
- Has Obama committed any "Impeachable Offenses"?
- "No one should die because they can't afford health care"
- Who are the liberal Glenn Becks/Hannitys/Bachmanns/Steeles/etc.?
- Should we ask the commentators to supply birth certificates?
- Since 1970, has anyone in the USA really DIED because they couldn't afford health care?
- Should Murder Be Legalized?
- How long until healthy food becomes as widely accessible as fast-food?
- Will health care costs ever go down
- I'm hard pressed to consider 20-50 year old American women as having been culturally oppressed
- When has government intervention harmed a service or economic sector?
- Sex Offenders: Give Us Your Passwords
- How did the Glenn Becks and Rush Limbaughs come to take over the conservative movement?
- Real-life example: Firemen die in fire deliberately set: Murder?
- Would this simple solution work as a death penalty alternative?
- Is GDP a good measure of value in healthcare?
- In the face of extinction... an alternative
- What is the point of creating an artificial human?
- U.S. calls Honduran coup a coup, cuts aid, might not recognize November election results
- What if we required every health insurance policy to be bundled with life insurance?
- What is Obama's Healthcare Plan in layman's?
- Liberals, are you ready to abandon the public option?
- Will science and technology save us from the upcoming resource crunch
- Are people who haven't seen certain Major Films/TV shows "missing out"?
- The Dixie Chicks, revisited
- Swiss Style Health Care in the U.S.: A Compromise?
- Is rape the forcing of a soul tie between the rapist and victim?
- Why doesn't the "United States of America" encompass all of North and South America?
- Competition may not help that much in health care
- Colombia to have referendum on abolishing presidential term limits
- T/F: Misinformation, ignorance, and fallacy is the bread and butter of the Republican party
- Am I crazy for feeling there's suddenly a lot more TV infomercials than usual?
- "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones Resigns
- Is there a double standard in this Obama school address controversy?
- The ACLU's new cause: jail time for unapproved speech.
- Were we feminists wrong? Rape is down 85 % while porn use is up and up.....
- Would the US accept a smallish European country as the 51st State?
- Universal health care- what's the problem?
- Is it time to stop supporting Karzai?
- Why no psuedo-gnostic resurgence during the Reformation?
- What is it with the Japanese and young schoolgirls?
- What if WW2 had been about extermination?
- Brooks v. Lind: Is Obama's approval-ratings problem that he's too far left, or not left enough?
- Does the end justify the means? An old classic.
- Someone Explain 'Green Jobs', Please.
- Is it time to revive colonialism and The White Man's Burden?
- What's the cure for runaway executive compensation?
- How to make political decisions?
- Fines for no health insurance
- Would a public option force insurance out of business?
- Supreme court, the big story of the day
- High school football coach has players baptised
- Health-care reform money: where's it coming from and going to?
- We are not going to Mars
- Federal Pay Continues Rapid Ascent - Is this a problem?
- Defending a libertarian utopia against invasion
- What was really the deal with Bobby Fischer?
- The human population becomes unsustainable - is forcing a woman to have an abortion acceptable?
- Is There Really Such a Thing as 'Improper' English?
- The Death of Conservatism?
- So, what do people think about the health care address?
- Okay, does or does not the current health care bill cover illegal immigrants?
- Is it time for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to go?
- Censure for Rep. Joe Wilson?
- Gallup: Public opinion on health-care reform almost unchanged from beginning of August
- Another health care "Would this work in the US"?
- What is this free will I keep hearing about?
- "Illegal immigrants will not be covered by this bill." They should be.
- Soaking the rich. What's the problem?
- The sanction for disrupting a Presidential address should be immediate removal from the chambers
- 9:26am nyt
- ACORN workers caught on tape apparently advising on child prostitution
- Republican worker arrested for molesting children.
- Rational healthcare debate - politics free zone
- Justify illegal immigration to me
- Should teachers be paid according to how their students test?
- If a public option fails, how can we fix the insurance industry?
- Taking bets: Whose 9/11 tribute tonight will be the most pathetic?
- Public option Obama style
- Understanding Tu Quoque
- Legality of Drugs and Guns: Commensurable?
- Would it be a good idea to build a massive border fence?
- Charlie Sheen: Hero, Villian or Martyr?
- Scientology infomercial
- Understanding Money Saved
- Hundreds of thousands protesting bigt government in DC and nationwide
- Get Ready to Pay More for Your Tires
- Which nations act as models for American conservative ideals?
- Can Creationists say that different plants are related?
- Definitions please! Intelligence; free will; consciousness.
- Suprise energy transfer from Sun- Global Warming implications?
- Health Care: Where does the Money Go?
- The minimal universe
- Discourse for the purpose of persuasion
- The Way to Stop Whaling is Changing Japanese Minds
- What specific laws were broken in the ACORN 'prostitution' flap?
- Corporation personhood: what if we got rid of it?
- Should DC get a voice in Congress?
- Why is Demonic Posession So Rare?
- The Dieppe Raid - What the Hell Were They Thinking?
- What effect will robotics have on medicine
- U.S.-Iran talks begin October 1
- Drilling for oil (vs/and) the environment
- President Obama extends Cuban embargo
- Fed. Judge rejects SEC ,Bank of America deal
- Why do people decline to discuss hypotheticals?
- Does anyone really think the Canadian health system is "beyond repair"?
- Is using a Real Doll (for sex) misogynist?
- Why have doctors been given a pass in the healthcare debate?
- "Respect for Marriage Act" would repeal DOMA
- Conservative French President Sarkozy swinging to the left?!
- Does anybody ever change their worldview at a very late age?
- What's so horrible about sex?
- Maureen Dowd and "You Lie, Boy"
- Baucus Health Care Bill - No Bipartisanship
- General Joe Johnston, CSA
- Why the Hell are we still in Afghanistan?
- Law & Ethics: Adult-Minor Sex
- Required Reading
- Pedophiliacs: Should we feel sympathy for them?
- Obama Cancels Missile Shield: Putin to Reciprocate?
- If ACORN is so evil, why did it take 38 years to notice?
- Why do right-wingers keep talking about the "Cloward-Piven Strategy"?
- How much respect should any President/politician get?
- True Christianity Is Never Practiced
- Free Market...No... Wait a minute...
- Trend: Men happier, women not so much. Reckon why?
- Would it make sense for municipalities to ban the sale of tobacco?
- Are some crimes (or sins) unredeemable?
- Theists, agnostics, beleivers: Have you attempted to read a book by Richard Dawkins?
- Why the need for the 20th amendment?
- Would Ringo's Background-Paranoia Be Justified?
- Gold Standard, yea or nea?
- Should incompetent aircraft mechanics face criminal charges of negligence?
- What's the solution to the hysterical right's shadow government?
- Why not government work projects for the unemployed?
- Net Neutrality wins; who loses?
- How would you create a society that imbues people with a sense of innate worth [ed title]
- Do you personally know someone who's been to a Tea Party or yelled at a town hall?
- Why not government work projects for prisioners?
- If we recognized China's right to absorb Afghanistan, would they?
- Could the gallipoli Operation Have Worked?
- "Jimmy Carter really didn't like to listen, he liked the appearance of listening" - Fair or unfair?
- I was naive about Fox News
- Is a health care system where some die due to lack of care "Darwinism"?
- Shades of: "What do you mean by is?"
- Redskins Win!
- Obama viewed as the Antichrist
- Where is the evidence that Bush "lied"?
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