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- Lefties who are angry at Obama are misguided
- Liberal (American) dopers, a question
- Come All Ye Secularists
- Medical Insurance and Pre-existing Conditions
- Why is Gasoline so damn expensive right now ($3.00 US, approx)
- Is the US in decline?
- Were the Founding Fathers ultimately failures?
- North Korea's recent attack on Yeonpeyong Island was a war crime
- Is the Biblical 'Nazareth' a mistranslation?
- What's the Point of the Royals in Britain?
- Million Dollar Winner...or Not?
- The Repeal Amendment
- Abortion and child support
- Was Robert Mann also Jack the Ripper?
- Healthcare Reform Down In Flames?
- What would be the next thing in information-management technology?
- Why so many different treatments for overweight/obesity?
- European Far-Right
- Is the cat now out of the bag wrt Wikileaks?
- No Individual Health Care Mandate (regardless of court decisions) - Do you still support the bill?
- Is Karma a really a myth, ...or is it real?
- China holding the world to ransom? (*rare earth)
- What limits does the Constitution place on the federal government?
- Are people in the world starving? Can't we help?
- Is liberalism dying worldwide?
- 2012 Republican nominee: Chris Christie or Sarah Palin (probably Christie)
- Why do atheists insist that atheism is a 'non-belief'?
- Can courts dictate how much money parents spend on their kids?
- Berlin before the Bear
- Mandatory health insurance vs mandatory primary education
- Predictions: Will the DADT repeal pass the Senate?
- Who are the uninsured with pre-existing conditions in the US, and will they bankrupt health care
- The Obama Administration and Freedom of Speech and the Press
- Can someone justify the finance industry?
- Might BP p.l.c. yet be destroyed? [edited title]
- Was the bombing of Dresden a war crime?
- Defend Senate Republicans denying 1st responders for the rich
- Would it have been (morally) murder if a slave killed his master?
- So why don't we simply call the 99th week of unemployment welfare?
- Story problem for legal types
- What the fuck is wrong with Mexico?
- Are American workers just too downright lazy?
- Dream Act fails.
- Who carries the most blame in these three scenarios of sexual conflict?
- morality and the color blue
- What did McCains remarks mean re DADT-elites-sacrifice...
- Hermann Goring- was He Really Up To The Job?
- Democrat Diving?
- Is northism evil?
- Will the end of DADT effect DOMA?
- Is there such thing as photographic evidence?
- Is a constitution like an operating system?
- Countdown To Armageddon - Will North Korea Do It Just To Save Face?
- Rumor: Obama to propose cuts to SS during his SotU address...
- Gov't spending: austerity coming? Should it be run like a household budget?
- Post-"election" crackdown in Belarus
- Why Are Big Cities in America So Liberal
- Are Loveless Marriages Better Than Divorce
- Walmart makes the US tax system more progressive
- Biblical Question
- What would real gender equality be like?
- Dopers in 12-step recovery: Would you break anonymity if you heard someone tell of a serious crime?
- Gay Issues Seem Like A Boring Sideshow To Me
- No, seriously. What the hell do you pay State income taxes for?
- Is 'Simulation' possible?
- Terrorists Whose Ideals Were Right
- 'Net neutrality... Where to now?
- Why were the Japanese so cruel in World War II?
- Virgin Marriage
- Can the Nobel Prize become relevant again?
- Mike Huckabee keeps blowing my mind
- Moscow Newspaper Novaya Gazeta to release Russian materials supplied by Wikileaks.
- Is a positive bias necessarily a bad thing?
- How do conservatives reconcile government distrust and love for military?
- What would have happened if Britain and France had rolled into Germany in '39?
- The best lame-duck session EVAH!
- Zionism
- What's wrong with faith?
- What proportion of Chinas economy is just a bubble?
- Scott Peterson: Innocent or guilty
- Will we ever nuke ourselves into oblivion?
- Posting someone's name and picture on a public webpage, without their consent
- What's the skeptical explanation for the events after the death of Jesus?
- Is Bradley Manning getting the publicity he wanted or deserves?
- Here's how the estate tax should work ....
- Grand Unified Palin Theory
- The Dakotas and Manitoba/Unemployment rate
- Hyperinflation
- The Future of Money
- You Read It Here First: My Manifesto
- Greatest and Worst British Prime Minister
- So, what's your Social Security (US) reform proposal?
- Indian reservations
- Was Marx right?
- Husband faces felony charges for reading wife's email
- People who want to convert my religion
- multiple personality disorder and god.
- Am I a Christian?
- Should Hawaii look for Ann Soetoro's delivery records?
- WW2, If Russia had siezed Japan, what then?
- "To believe [in X]" is needlessly
- Voting is a waste of time.
- Forget the Mayans, what about St. Malachy's prophesies?
- Time travel quandry
- Aircraft carriers: floating coffins?
- Will 2011 be a banner year for neo-confederate revisionist history?
- Major natural gas discovery off-shore Israel: Political ramifications?
- Is there a "White Privilege"? If so, what is it, and what are the public-policy implications?
- U.S. exporting coal to China: good or bad?
- Mexican drug war, long term
- What if U.S. military returned to the M1 Garand rifle?
- Jim Crow era convictions need to expunged, and the victims need to be compensated
- Richard Carrier: a credible historian regarding rejecting Hitler's anti-Christian views being...
- 2011: Economic growth to hit 3-4%!
- Identical persons in identical rooms
- How Is Communism a Religion
- An Income Tax Question
- How to evict someone
- Your thoughts about this topic [stealing]
- "No refusal" DUI checkpoint
- What's the deal with Whistleblower Crucifixion Syndrome?
- World War I
- How is this helping the Progress of Science and useful Arts?
- Real Motivation For Japanese Whaling?
- Women: your opinion of orgasmic birth
- Thou shalt not kill and hypocratic faith?
- Morality and killing
- The [definitive] Mac vs. PC thread
- Do Arabs have a different concept of "corruption"?
- Is solitary confinement torture?
- Carotid arteries in cattle
- Resolved: Jesus did not exist
- Is the American way of life either directly or indirectly a hindrance to other countries' ways of li
- How Can We Plausibly Best Improve Humanity
- Third World contributions to First World living standards
- Obama on Guantanamo: damned if he does...
- Can a libertarian explain to me how we are supposed to prevent environmental disaster?
- Why is Pakistan such a basketcase?
- Should I believe in God/Aliens (hypothetical)?
- Resolved: The US Military buildup played a role in the current state of North Korea
- It should be ilegal to smoke on the street.
- Has Noam Chomsky ever been noted to exaggerate or provide false info?
- Scalia says the 14th amendment doesn't apply to women
- Judge recusing based on wife's activities
- Courts - Legal to search cell phone without warrant
- Is the childhood obesity epidemic mostly media hype?
- whether it's possible to deny the existence of something without presupposing it exists
- Questions for Originalists (specially Bricker*)
- Some Bibel Questions
- The GOP attempt to repeal healthcare reform will backfire
- Why Is Communism Such a Joke in the US?
- Had Mussolini Avoided WWII-Would He Be Honored and Loved Today?
- Are News Sources Inherently Biased?
- Kuzari: Round Two
- Why aren't there more bench trials? Or, is our justice system based on deception and stupidity?
- Immigrant Labor or Outsourcing: You Must Choose One
- Reading the constitution
- Who is middle class?
- The Republican Party celebrates and endorses racism and evil as expressed in the constitution
- I don't understand the "white nationalist" position.
- Tort Reform and Federalism
- Wanted: a sensible explanation of why parents don't want kids exposed to sex but violence is okay
- True believing Christians: will you allow me to challenge and probe your beliefs?
- I survived... beyond and back
- Do Christians follow the 10 commandments? Specifically the one about the Sabbath.
- Wichita school district puts checkbook online
- "Second Amendment Solutions" (the [hopefully civil] GD version)
- Believers: What would it take to convince you your faith is false?
- Gabrielle Giffords Shot; Sheriff Blames Conservative Rhetoric.
- Liberals should support tort reform
- Do we really want or need voting reform in the UK? Specifically, do we want AV?
- Sporting obesity vs. Societal obesity
- Why didn't anyone shoot Jared Loughner before he shot 20 people?
- Jared Loughner’s Politics – What Matters and What Doesn’t?
- Hypothetical: The reaction if it had been Sarah Palin instead of Gabby?
- What would be the Achilles heel of religion?
- Mind Control
- What will South Sudanese independence mean for the region?
- Would the Gettysburg Address have been improved if Lincoln used emoticons?
- Just how dependent is Israel upon the US?
- Would the World Have Been Better if Germany Had Won World War I?
- White House seeks military spending cuts
- Am I a hypocritical little Lib?
- Jail Strip Searches, Men, and Women
- Comparison: Tucson vs Ft Hood
- Aggressively violent imagery - equal among both parties?
- What Explains J Edgar Hoover's Refusal To Take The Mafia Seriously?
- Question for originalists. Was the Supreme Court wrong in Brown?
- Does America need to maintain the Marines?
- Why Are the Swedish Democrats Considered Racists?
- Drunk Driving
- Justices Kagan and Scalia
- How many acquittals would you have in an ideal legal system?
- Should the US Army be stripped down to special forces and reserves?
- Obama's speech at the Tuscon Memorial
- Most despicable reaction to the Tucson shootings?
- How do we balance individual rights and public safety wrt the mentally ill?
- Conservative policies, not rhetoric, are responsible for the tragedy in Tucson
- Will The US Ultimately Default On Its Debt?
- The ethics of suicide
- Why is Sarah Palin considered the de facto leader of the Republican party?
- "Jim Bob's terrible confession" (personal responsibility vs. being judgmental)
- How to deal with bipolar sibling
- We need more civility in our political discourse!!
- Majority of States Now Challenging Health Care Law
- What do you think about recording sex sessions?
- Doesn't Palin's position on her rhetoric undercut her opposition to the construction of the mosque?
- When can we stop obsessing over WWII?
- A fifth star for Petraeus?
- Limbaugh has been trashing Sheriff Dupnik and now is reportedly playing "I Shot the Sheriff"
- Will Tunisian revolution inspire actions in other nations? (Now following Egypt.) [ed. title]
- So when does civil disobedience work?
- We should be more worried about random violence
- "Land of the Free, home of the Brave"
- Humans are not hard-wired for moral behavior
- Obama's speechifying
- Was the Supreme Court wrong on state apportionment?
- Palin's an ass but she didn't cause Tucson.
- Why is pet euthanasia okay but people euthanasia not?
- "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care law act"
- If King had not been assassinated, would anything be different now?
- Christian Rep. of TX Leo Berman wants to abolish religious laws (what am I missing?)
- Jewish Dopers: Have you ever watched the film "Defamation"?
- Men's Rights: Why not get rid of Selective Service?
- Kudos to Obama for Regulatory Review
- Could "disorder" be used as evidence against God?
- Fuel from Micro-organisms
- Comcast/NBC merger approved...
- Andrew Wakefield: why ain't he in choky?
- What stage is the US empire's decline at?
- 2005: Record Exxon Profit = Evil Price Gouging, 2011: Record Apple Profit = American Success Story?
- Federal Judge moves towards overturning DOMA
- If the courts strike down health-care reform
- The Race Card and the Racist Card
- Is this really a consequence of Obamacare?
- In Nietzsche, does "power" mean power-over-others, or something else?
- Times Omsbudsman: Possibly "Palin, Rush, Beck Responsible For Shooting!" Was Teeniest Bit Premature
- Dr. Kenneth Gosnell's "abortion mill" and crimes
- Would the US hostages in Iran have been released if Carter had been reelected.
- Have advancing military technologies made wars more or less decisively winnable?
- Ronald Reagan's Legacy: Your Thoughts
- Is it improper to speculate on the Spokane bomb plot?
- Anti-death penalty and Christ.
- Oligarchs, Plutocrats and The Elites...and the Worker Bees
- No, America does not need RW civility. America needs LW vitriol.
- States Declaring Bankruptcy?
- You're Hitler. When do you call it quits?
- Anti Semites and the "Jews killed Jesus" argument
- Isn't the US snubbing China's prime minister on human rights grounds a bit rich?
- What person who died young would have changed history the most had they lived longer?
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