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- Is Obama all that different from other Presidents?
- Resolved by Steven Landsburg: Nobody is Actually Religious. Discuss!
- Are Kids Getting Better?
- The Intellectual Property of Macaques
- Why are the rich so opposed to paying taxes?
- Raising the debt ceiling with more balanced budgeting
- The Eighth-day Adventist Church proposal
- Let's Tax Lottery Winnings at 90%
- Long-Term Effects of Rebel Victory in Southern Rebellion?
- Are there any valid prophecies?
- What is the motivation of China's manned space program?
- Obama to nominate Cordray to Consumer Protection Post.
- Why do we tax the rich at all ?
- How to respond to the debt limit mess?
- Balanced budget amendment... tied to tax increases
- Let's grow the economy!
- Is a belief in ghosts compatible with atheism?
- Why is it that only Northern Europeans have been programmed to make themselves into a minority?
- Compelling production of a password, revisited
- Is Gold Really a Good Investment?
- Israel to attack Iran this fall?!
- Servants and labor-saving products
- Did Murdoch walk into Obamatrap?
- So now that NCLB has hit the reality of the scholastic ability bell curve. What happens next?
- Just how religious is the US?
- What exactly is a 'healthy diet', is there a scientific consensus
- Call in a drunk drive or no?
- Do you think it is reasonable for taxpayers to pay $113 BILLION a year for Illegals/Anchor Babies?
- Thought experiment for white people regarding race.
- Could the hacking scandal bring down the Cameron Government?
- Militant Atheism: Good or bad
- Why doesn't the government consider reducing spending on non-essential programs?
- Why do politicians need money in order to campaign?
- Is Anti-Semitism a serious problem in Norway?
- Are religious people crazy?
- Franken pwns Focus on the Family.
- Drug Tests For Welfare Recipients?
- Do people get better in prison
- The Debt Crisis Thread
- MSNBC is profiling presidential candidate Ross Perot, could his perspective help today?
- Household Rights?
- Homeopathy--quackery or legit medicine?
- A viable solution comprimise to tax the rich?
- Is there really a shortage of jobs, or have we failed to solve the overpopulation problem?
- Resolved: Religious people are crazy. What now?
- Economic woes solving plan: Government hires everyone
- Allen West: sexual harassment or not?
- Resolved: Atheists are wrong. What now?
- Changes from baby boomers aging beyond SS
- Prison Rape
- Which non-Xian historians give the most credence to the NT's historical accuracy?
- Poverty and Intelligence
- In years to come, will boxing and other combat sports be seen as barbaric blood sports?
- Evidence of a historical Jesus Christ
- What if R.E. Lee fought for the Union?
- Father's Blog = child abuse?
- Are the GOP rooting for total economic collapse?
- Catholic Tradition
- Are political leanings just a matter of brain wiring?
- Are the troothspeaking lawyers pulling a fast one?
- If the US does indeed have separation of church and state why does the church remain tax exempt?
- The Persian Empire - were they really such bad guys?
- What if the PRC had fallen to the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests?
- Scandal control. In the long run, which is better denial or admission?
- Can someone define "Cultural Marxism" Please?
- Why do the Israelis build settlements?
- Is this justice or a travesty of justice? DUI vs. jaywalking charge.
- Do I have an obligation to get vaccinated against flu?
- Something to ponder [continued from "Draconian DUI laws"]
- Eastern promise: what, if anything, can non-believers learn from Buddhism?
- Default and third party politics
- Instead of raising taxes, why not push for this idea?
- Should we be considering costs when recommending vaccines?
- Not so slippry a slope: Bush has always been the one to blame for our current economic crisis.
- Concerning mandatory reporting for Catholic priests.
- Zeitgeist 3 - opinions?
- My Solution to the Mortgage Crisis
- Did the U.S. lose the War of 1812?
- Joint Strike fighters still in limbo - Aussies threaten to withdraw - China hones stealth aircraft
- What will it take to create a third political party?
- Bullets as a metaphor
- The US defense budget
- Would increasing the number of Representatives in the House change anything?
- What Crimes Should Be Punishable By the Death Penalty
- Are there many pro-life people who are also anti-death penalty?
- US loses AAA rating: what happens?
- What's the logic in regulators tolerating death in one instance but not another?
- Should Christians apologize for the Oslo killings?
- Free Will Revisited - Soft Compatibilism (ver. 2.0)
- If we do hit the debt ceiling, we should make other cuts rather than default on our debt
- The death penalty (again)
- The roots of the Holocaust: Intentionalists vs. Functionalists.
- The absolute answer to our Nations difficulty...
- Mass Resignation of Turkish Generals
- Debt Ceiling Follies: The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin.
- Tea Party = treason
- Keynesian economics
- Did this officer violate the law?
- Obama, Y U NO STAND UP FOR SELF?
- Why does the high tech industry seem so bubble-prone?
- Aren't conservatives for euthanasia and health care rationing?
- Constitution 2.0
- How do we prevent atrocities like the Norwegian Utoja-massacre and the Oslo terror-bombings?
- Claire McCaskill - Statement on Meet the Press
- Question re: 14th Amendment
- What if women ruled the world?
- America needs to invest in infrastructure
- For Krugman followers: How much debt would be acceptable?
- Is English "degrading" or just changing?
- Pharmacist prescribing debate [continued]
- City mandated vs. free market trash collection
- We need mandatory National Service in the US
- Enough with the no-kill shelters and related wrongheadedness
- What would happen if all the rich people left America?
- Forcing the unemployed to work
- Brillliant strategy for Pubbies
- Sungazing...WTF?
- Whats wrong with "back yard breeders"?
- Is having a cell phone a right?
- What Kinds of Rights Do Fringe Groups Have in Europe?
- Why is Social Security unsustainable?
- Honesty Experiments
- If there were no one in the universe to observe it, would the universe still exist?
- Do the rich really take risks.
- Market drops - Social Security suddenly looks good
- Is There Any Doubt We Are Heading for a Double-Dip Recession?
- Appoint the libertarian Scott Sumner to the Federal Reserve Board
- Armchair Speculation: Will modern cosmetic techniques destroy natural selection?
- Libertarian system for money
- A Nordics Seek Seat at G-20 Table
- Standard & Poor downgrades US credit: now AA+ not AAA
- When we all died.
- Why are Americans so opposed to tax increases?
- If Republicans only care about the rich...
- Do we have enough medical training for UHC?
- Did Obama cause the 31 US Seal Team 6 Deaths?
- Neither welfare-state nor property-owning democracy. What do conservatives want?
- How Can the Dems Get The Truth Out About the Debt Ceiling Disaster?
- What would happen if all the poor people left America?
- Dodd-Frank Kills the Congo [ed.: Application of Law of Unintended Consequences]
- More on bigamy and polygamy
- Are politicians less civil now?
- Why are they rioting in London?
- Christians: when you say that God loves humanity, what exactly do you mean?
- Worst form of government except all others that have been tried
- Why do ultra-right-wingers flip out over gold?
- Water dowsers
- Rioting - is the U.S. next?
- Distilling For Personal Use.
- Can You Appeal A Restraining Order?
- Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic?
- What's a graven image?
- Billionaire Investor Explains: Workers Are Screwed
- What will happen with the solar storms of 2012-2014
- Why should the 'uncontacted' tribes remain so?
- Is it reasonable for an employee to expect a living wage?
- Should our legal system hold drivers MORE RESPONSIBLE for accidents?
- Will there be gravity in heaven?
- Appeals Court Strikes Down the Individual Mandate
- Representatives by interest groups
- Wait, if we can force SS (insurance) payments, why is Obamacare unconstitutional?
- Would it really be that bad if America wasn't #1?
- Believing in God
- Would a world with a known, confirmed god necessarily stagnate? And its corollary . . .
- Is The Chinese Model (Of Dealing With 3rd World Developemnt) The Best?
- San Francisco cel phone shutdown: safety issue, or hint of Orwell?
- Another God question
- What If: India[was] granted independence 12 years earlier
- I just found out I've been presupposing naturalism my whole life. Is this a fallacy?
- AMENDMENT XXVIII Money and Credit – Congress Asserts Power To Coin Money, and Emit Bills of Credi
- The kids are alright - it's the adults that are confused
- Carl Icahn's Actvities-Good Or Bad?
- What would be the response if a single billionaire or company funded each presidential candidate
- Will low interest rates stimulate consumer spending?
- More bombings in Iraq -- why now?!
- Clothahump: what's the problem with the 17th Amendment?
- Should we abolish the EPA?
- Libertarian Islands
- What is this "uncertainty" and why is it so bad?
- Why aren't things working better in Europe?
- Little Round Top: How did Chamberlain Succeed?
- American Dopers: Is "Supercop" Bill Bratton really as good as they say?
- Do the new tobacco warnings violate 1st Amendment rights?
- Should the U.S. normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba?
- Is Marijuana Medicine?
- America or Western Europe?
- Electromagnet Artifical Intelligence
- Why can't 'we' secede from the Union [continued]
- Where do "cut the spending" GOPs envision the cutting?
- Would the nation you live in make you more optimistic or pessimistic?
- By fundie logic, shouldn't abortion be a GOOD thing?
- Possible cancer cure, but decades out for trials?
- is evolution a fact?
- Jesus Christ as your fantasy dinner guest
- My wife came out to me as a Truther
- Atheist vs Believers
- Hahahahaha. Tea party republicans push for regressive tax hike.
- What Texas Got Right
- Comcast/Verizon/Time Warner Internet Monopolies?
- Is terrorism over?
- What's Causing the Hyperpartisanship?
- Annihiliationism?
- 2010s Depression versus the Great Depression
- Why hasn't DSK's accuser been deported?
- Will Libya end up being a positive for Obama?
- Christians: What is your best evidence for the literal, historical resurrection of Jesus
- Believing in an afterlife
- Climatologist Dr. Michael Mann completely vindicated...again.
- Election Reform: Is it time for supermajority or coalition style government?
- Is mathematics the language of the Universe?
- Prayer Versus Free Will
- How did Noah care for 8.7 million species?
- World Trade Center [questions/conspiracy theories]
- Why does God need to be the only God AND omnipotent to boot?
- The "Lockerbie Bomber" (Pan Am 103) was framed
- The President and the Economy.
- Has ANY President's summer reading list been as scrutinized as Obama's?
- The CBO-Reliable?
- Which dictators to interfere with?
- "Biblical" Marrages? are people really okay with this?
- Things we know that but really don't
- Does this settle the vaccines cause autism question?
- Doc Brown and the Royal Crown
- So if transhumanism hits a wall for advancement, then what?
- How are addictions classified?
- Is the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional?
- Merle "Rat Terriers" and not Rat Terriers [closed duplicate]
- What would happen if we reduced the minimum wage in the US?
- Syria soon?
- You just now got that figured out? Really?
- Was Bush really a "fundie"? Also, how smart/dumb was he really?
- Is this racial profiling?
- Why should I care about Somalians, since their own countrymen don't?
- Statistically, blacks score poorly on IQ and IQ-proxy exams than whites, is black genetics to blame?
- Gurkha VS Navy Seal - hand to hand
- Let's rethink "cruel and unusual" punishment
- Is it just/desirable to replace destroyed body parts with those of the attacker?
- Videotaping an arrest is a 1st Amend. Right
- SEAL or Gurkha vs normal people
- Jews & Christians: does God's moral authority derive from his wisdom or his power?
- Atheists, why debate christians?
- Operation Overlord fails - now what ?
- School Vouchers?
- How would a world where the 4th plane hit its intended target be different?
- What about Algeria?
- 1940 election if FDR hadn't run
- All Information Should be Free
- Tibetan Buddhism Question (Appropriateness Of Exalted Title)
- Wikileaks' leaks leaked.
- If Lee chose to fight a defensive war, does the south win?
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