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- If you think that strategic defaults on mortgages are OK
- Why do I have to accept junk mail?
- Inappropriate relationship
- Digital fabricators: what effect on the world?
- Was Stewart's/Colbert's rally racist because there were no nonwhites?
- The Obama pardon drought. Is Obama being too stingy with clemency?
- Justice or Vengence
- It's election ever. Why even have elections?
- Municipal earnings taxes: Yay or nay?
- Will there ever be a woman USA President or Vice President?
- Ending the Culture Wars
- "The most powerful, proven instrument of material and social progress is the free market." Cite?
- Lame Duck Session ..... what's going to happen?
- Follow the election results post
- Could/would Rand Paul really singlehandedly bring on a depression?
- Would Most New Yorkers Vote Giuliani For POTUS
- Any Citizens United effects/reverberations on elections, now and in the future?
- Repubs have biggest gain since before WWII...
- What role (if any) will the Tea Party play in 2012?
- What is the Republican plan to fix our economy and why will it work?
- Lord James of Blackheath: unearthed Illuminati conspiracy or completely nuts?
- Doctor refuses to give vasectomy w/o partner's consent
- is F.R.B. just stimulating FOREIGN economies?
- A rational discussion of the mid-terms
- In politics, keeping something on the table = definitely gonna do it?
- Obama's visit to India
- Yemeni Connection
- Federal reserve implements its own stimulus
- Forget the Republicans. How do the Democrats change internally from here?
- Justify a Progressive Income Tax Structure
- Is the Humane Society a PETA front?
- President Obama: The First Step in Negotiating Is Not "Bend Over"
- Obama signs iPad; Palin (allegedly) signs flag
- Would James Huberty Have Joined the Tea Party?
- Judicial system.. why is stare decicis so sacred?
- Keith Olbermann suspended for contributing to candidates
- Have people that are self aligned with a political party, biased by their own allegiances?
- Is awareness required to cheat?
- Did Oklahoma just ban the Ten Commandments?
- Is the Obama Administration effectively over, even if he wins and Dems retake the House in 2012?
- Was the U.S. ever in danger of losing the "Cold War"?
- Why aren't prisons racially segregated?
- Mod Dems: Do you want Nancy Pelosi to stick around?
- Oklahoma's Banning of International Law and Its Relation to Business
- A new communication strategy for the DNC
- Will there every be another US Presidential election decided in a landslide?
- 9/11 - Pentagon hit - Where are the plane parts?
- Should we tolerate intolerance?
- Is Slavery Endorsed By the Bible
- Tiburon, Calif. to photograph every car entering town
- Why don't the Mexican authorities just throw a party?
- Will California get its financial act together?
- What's the point of Materialism?
- Obama backs India for permanent seat on UN Security Council
- Question from a 90 year old war Veteran
- Ethics of donating money to cure common diseases
- Is it time to end the filibuster in the US Senate?
- Buffalo can’t become a Lion
- How important are abortion rights?
- "War" on Terror vs "War" on Drugs
- Fed Reserve buys gov't. debt -- Is this the End of the World As We Know It?
- What was the nature of the US military before the National Security Act of '47?
- Here's what the Democrats need to do to win
- Free mandatory universal education is self-defeating
- How Does One Know Israeli History?
- Political vs Moral Implications of a Dictator/Tyrant
- Tension between "the voters can't be trusted" and "let's register lots of voters"
- 2010: How Democrats lost the Battle, but won the War
- What was the mystery missile?
- Bush - Torture saves lives
- Is Crimes Against God Worse Than A Crime Against A Human
- Basis of science's belief that extraterrestrial life is likely?
- Ludicrous theory about God, spirits etc.
- Why the need to deny bias that others have experienced?
- Are The European Criticisms of The TSA Valid?
- Public Schools: Strict Traditional Education vs Citizen Development
- Who is <blank> enough to benefit from Affirmative Action? Should it be based on looks?
- In 2000 years, will we be viewed as an "ancient" society, like the Romans (for example)?
- Free Will Revisited - A New Compatibilist Model
- Is India Really Becoming a Huge Market For US Exports?
- Would a bomb going off in a TSA line put an end to the ridiculous security theater?
- Why so much difference in level of bullying in high school vs college?
- No new U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement
- Sagans List and life in the universe
- Pro Choice Life of the Mother Vs Live of the baby
- "The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure" and Amazon
- Asking middle class (and lower) Dopers why they vote Republican.
- Why can't the Shinkansen (Bullet trains) work anywhere else in the world?
- Hong Kongs economic culture
- The supposed improbability of life
- Those who question depend on those who do not question. Discuss?
- Bars, Dress Codes and Racism
- "Freedom Isn't Free." Discuss?
- Is reading intrinsically superior to watching movies or television?
- John Brown: Hero or Terrorist
- Should Minorities Be Encourage to Assimiliate
- Divorce and Custody
- Is this National Debt graph accurate?
- "Companies still need talented systems designers and other well-trained technicians" LOL WUT?!
- Anyone else who doesn't accept that they are conscious?
- No US Corp Tax for Mr. Big: Your 2 Cents?
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Facts
- Help needed: Debate AGAINST legalisation of cannabis
- What qualifies someone as a Holocaust survivor?
- Why does the deficit commission rough draft contain supply side tax cuts
- Is Bharat India?
- Was Pakistan always a bad idea?
- Bush claims Mitch McConnell asked for troop withdrawl from Iraq to help in midterm elections
- Extent/limits of using the stock market as predictor of future events?
- Obamacare Waivers
- Khalid Sheik Mohammed can be held indefinitely without trial, says Obama administration
- First Circuit to Newdow: Pledge w/ "Under God" is Constitutional
- Convince me to say "n-word" rather than "nigger" when the latter is what I mean.
- What will the next viral outrage be?
- Resolved: Pirates caught in the act should be hanged by the neck until dead.
- Seeking an intelligent Obama hater - no debates here!
- Democracy: It doesn't work.
- Airplane etiquette vs safety
- TSA's Groin check? Going too far?
- What does "real" airline security look like?
- Is that the death rattle of the Euro I hear?
- Reform Coming to the Canada Pension Plan -- Why?
- Earmarks: I Call Shenanigans!
- Any adult no matter how unintelligent or ill informed should have a vote.
- Ontario To Implement The Most Cynical, Dumbest Government Move Of All Time
- Is battle between great powers obsolete?
- "There is a mean streak in anyone who will destroy another's faith."
- Foreclosures hit homeowners not in default
- Should he clean her clock? [Obama vs. Palin in debates]
- Chinese Spacewalk Faked?
- GOP Refusal to Approve New START
- Pope calls health care an "Inalienable Right". What's the right-wing spin?
- Why should the parents of young adults recover for wrongful death torts?
- Morally who are you stealing from when you steal from a corperation?
- What will happen with the debt limit?
- The moral argument for religion/god is not "grounding" anything at all
- Leftist opposition to the existence of corporations
- "People's Capitalism": Is this a good idea?
- Paul Davies enumerates all possible explanations of the fine tuning debate (Anthropic Principle)
- The "Second Coming of Jesus" Error In Translation?
- Warren Buffet weighs in on tax cuts and supply side economics
- The "Ground Zero Mosque" Can be built, but should it?
- The unconstitutionality of defaulting on U.S. debt... irrelevant?
- How would *your* life actually change if (the person you don't support) was president?
- Seriously wanna ask: "By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights." Limited to 4th amendment?
- What does the bailout mean for Ireland (and the rest of the Eurozone)?
- Did nuclear weapons reduce the death rate from war
- America through Asian eyes
- Legalization of marijuana and secondhand smoke (Has this been debated here before?)
- To argue against conspiracy theories, is it valid to say "this would be a secret too hard to keep?"
- is raping a prostitute the same as shoplifting?
- Best Case Republican and Democrat Scenarios
- Political Correctness and Racial Profiling
- N. and S. Korea firing artillery at each other
- Will the GOP implode over Tea Party demands for cuts to ethanol subsidies?
- The morality of criminalizing immorality
- Has the TSA security theatre prevented any terrorist attacks?
- What if Henry V of England had lived longer after conquering France?
- Congressman King and the 14th Amendment
- Why are jews hated and/or mocked so much?
- Paying for organs
- Tom Delay found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy
- Did Sandra Day O'Connor ruin her legacy with Bush vs Gore?
- Facebook users 'are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem'
- EuroDopers: What's going on over there?
- Keynes' Revenge: What's making Euro austerity cuts fail so badly?
- Will single payer health care be passed on state level. Will it spread to the national level
- How long has it been since we had a successful international conference?
- Obama "facts" circulating via e-mail
- Wikileaks releasing thousands of diplomatic cables.
- On the non-validity of "arguments from nature"
- Great Britain 1942 has an A-Bomb-Would They Use It?
- Dope Members Alone
- Technology predictions for the next couple of decades
- Assassinating American Citizens--Impeach Obama
- How would South Korea greet the prospect of unification with NK?
- Wikileaks has released the documents
- Should Government Encourage Private Home Ownership?
- Why did most of Europe just lay down for Germany at the start of WWII?
- Evilest People In History
- Its coming, isn't it. Fascism.
- Does the STUXNET virus and nuclear scientist assassinations mean no military strike?
- Has there ever been anyone who cost the US more of its treasure than Osama bin Laden?
- Daniel Ellsberg was a hero. How is Julian Assange not a hero?
- Obama freezes federal worker pay for 2 years
- Believers: How do we know which religion is the correct one?
- Are anti-racism employment practices, in their effect, racist?
- Pascal's Wager
- Why don't Brits want King Charles III (or will it be King George VII?)
- Transitioning America's economy away from consumerism
- What would the deficit be if the economy were doing well
- How did a PFC collect 250,000 secret docs?
- WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets
- Care to reply to Aristotle?
- Corporate welfare ......
- Language prescriptivism is a moral issue?
- What is the current situation with Afghanistan?
- For what reason(s) do humans rule other species and do those reasons apply within the species?
- Wikileaks: 4 more years of leaks!* Affects on the ME?
- Why are right wingers opposed to America doing what China is doing
- charismatic mega-fauna and rhino ranching
- 'Net neutrality vote on December 21... What'll happen?
- Interpol to issue international arrest warrant for Dick Cheney
- What's behind the "Threat to Traditional Marriage" argument?
- Is Julian Assange a rapist?
- Iranian Centrifuge Worm
- Tax Incentives for Religious Theme Park
- What is up with John McCain?
- The book "Winning the Oil Endgame"
- In hindsight, did Obama deserve his Nobel Peace Prize?
- Is it fair to call Cal Thomas stupid and/or disingenuous because of his recent piece on health care?
- The moral standards of Wikileaks' critics
- GQ as GD: Facts vs. opinions re: the afterlife and other unprovable stuff
- Would The World Have Been Better If There Was No American Revolution
- The Extent of the Butterfly Effect
- is all knowledge tautology?
- Why didn't monarchies reinvent themselves as dictatorships?
- Leaked cables make impossible Hillary Clinton's continuing as SecState, sez Slate
- Cyprus refusing to send mail to USA
- How high must wages go to make large scale factory automation attractive?
- Is It Desireable to Have Foreign Spies In Your Government?
- Why were the Bush Tax cuts temporary ?
- Could the president, his wife, hit squads, a house member, a senator, and the AG take over America?
- A Libertarian Argument Regarding State Schools and the Curriculum
- Another brilliant move: No air packages ship to USA over 453 grams. Thanks, TSA!
- Perry v. Schwarzenegger: Round 2, the Appeal
- Do all monotheistic religions worship the same God?
- Why would living in a diverse community make one more racist?
- Putins Legacy
- How long would slavery have lasted if there were no US Civil War
- Obama {deals | caves} on tax cut extensions
- How do the Tea Partiers feel about the Wikileaks issue?
- What is WikiLeaks' mission?
- Precious Metals Investment Thesis Without Emotion (Is It Possible?)
- The Logical Fallacy "ad hominem" and others, and How to Debate
- To Death Penalty Opponents
- Should Droids be granted Sentient Rights?
- The power of creative destruction, in 1 picture
- Why didn't the Dems let the tax cuts expire and then introduce a new tax cut bill?
- No Debate on the Dream Act yet?
- Fate of 'In God We Trust'.
- Does the debt have a time limit?
- How might Christianity have developed if the doctrine of the Virgin Birth had never taken hold?
- Smurfberries: A Great Debate for our Age
- How has Germany been able to maintain their heavy industry?
- Bernie Sanders is staging a filibuster
- Islamofascists
- Add pot legalization to the compromise bill.
- Should the media report on dangerous people who crave the attention?
- Economic question about unemployment benefits
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