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- Radical conservationists: Are individual human lives expendable? Why?
- Standard and Poor to Give AAA Ratings to Subprime Mortgages
- Genetically modify prehistoric humanity
- Powerful article! - "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult"
- So Will The Sky Fall If The UN Declare Palestine a State?
- Does Judaism require a belief in God [Split from earlier thread]
- MMT Economics
- Assuming that one racial group is on average smarter than another, so what?
- The USPS closes. What will be the result?
- Fall of the Roman Empire
- Seed reuse and GM pollen pollution
- Ancient Sources and Christian Evidence
- Thought experiment: What if U.S. government represented the will of the people (more precisely)?
- What to do about underfunded pensions?
- Jones Act Waivers - SPR Release
- Obama's Jobs Speech
- 9/11 What If
- Matt Drudge, You're Kind Of A Dope (Random Obama Hate)
- Gold bubble bursts. What happens economically?
- Who's NOT buying health insurance and why is the right so aggressively defending them?
- Texas's limited government too limited to respond to wildfires
- Is this 'Transfer of wealth to the east' BS?
- The Fluff
- Dogs, Sex, and Morality
- Is there any reason to keep the literal Electoral College?
- Does any state require a photo ID to register to vote?
- Ground Zero Mosque
- Define religion
- How many legit votes prevented for each fraudulent vote?
- Here's why it's "One Man, One Vote"
- Would the 16th Amendment be ratified today?
- What if: No humans or other primates
- California's Nanny State?
- Am I a conspiracy theorist (Osama Bin Laden still alive)
- Should Everclear be banned?
- I don't understand why there is not MORE terrorism in America
- The Effects of the Arab Spring?
- Why if you disagree with Obama and his policies some label you as a racist?
- What if vertebrates had six limbs?
- Progressive Income Tax
- 9/11 Tribute Fever - Good intention, bad result (continued)
- Sola Scriptura? In what manner does the Bible define itself?
- Was Jesus Christ delusional, full of shit, or what?
- Why does the definition of hypertension keep getting stricter
- $200K/year isn't rich. Why aren't we taxing corporations?
- Was the Phlogiston Theory "Scientific?"
- Uninsured, injured, treatment?
- Will intelligence be selected against?
- Is straight dope just for kids?
- Why is Pakistan such a basket case? [ Part 2 ]
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Are jobs obsolete?
- Let's play a game of logical consistency
- Ron Paul: Honest or Nuts?
- Are there too many 'useless' people in the US?
- Lemon socialism?
- Cash for Clunkers (Home version)
- Was Joan of Arc really a witch?
- How do people end up so poor?
- The Solyndra Scandal:Does It Have the Potential to Hurt Obama?
- Was Freud Scientific?
- Should this marine be rewarded for defying orders?
- SCOTUS halts execution of Duane Buck in Texas
- The Really Big Questions Don't Matter
- Pat Robertson and Alzheimer's. Is this a GD or a Pit?
- National Security Exemption to 5th Amendment?
- Did Jesus ever get drunk?
- Do "Money Bombs" Accomplish Anything?
- Pro-lifers, pregnancy, medical costs
- About Social Security...
- Is [Religious] self-Deceit is a form of intelligence?
- What is "wealth generation"?
- Lost Decade for US Workers
- American Foreign Policy
- The police lie, or the Deaths of Jean-Charles "Speedy" de Menezes, Mark Duggan, Mohammad Kahar, etc.
- How much is the average American willing to pare back?
- Banning Dangerous Sports
- How does the sex aspect make HPV vaccination controversial?
- Bush's Next War Thread: Ten Years Later
- EPA Delays Climate Change Rules (but "Still Committed" to them)
- Should people with children have to pay taxes for schools?
- What has Rick Perry done to alienate conservatives
- If the Tea Party became their own party
- What Was the Point of 9-11?
- The Republicans Can STFU About "Job Creators"
- What's the Straight Dope on 'fracking'?
- Being robbed - safer to pull a gun or not?
- Are humans the next endangered species?
- Quick question about Palestinian statehood...
- Is terrorism a police or a military issue
- Why can't we all just get along?
- UK government to pay compensation to Bloody Sunday families
- Is war dysgenic?
- Is there a constitutional way to outlaw lobbyists?
- Obama making big changes to No Child Left Behind
- Why is India lagging behind China?
- Homosexuality
- Is There A Problem With Canadian Human Rights?
- Where is the EU heading?
- The socioeconomics of breastfeeding
- Genes and money, is it all?
- Youth and Criminality
- Keeping bank exec contracts while breaking union contracts
- Would a directly elected UN Organ be of any use
- Morals/ethics and the Dachau Massacre
- Will police abuse of power go unchecked?
- Wallace Kuralt, Charles Kuralt's father was a eugenicist.
- Why are fertility rates higher among lower-income American women?
- Why, exactly, do I need to respect religious beliefs?
- Has rail privatisation in the UK worked?
- The Paradox of Religion; Choosing Your Beliefs
- It appears Iran wants to park some ships off our east coast.
- Jail or Jesus
- Was Amanda Knox Involved In Any Way With Her Roommate's Murder?
- What would happen if the mass media lied about the economy?
- War. Give up, go all out, or something in between
- question to non-literal Christans regarding understanding the Bible
- Did I insult Native Americans today?
- Giving money to panhandlers/beggars/homeless on the street
- Is this Israeli soldier pointing his rifle at a little kid?
- What does the U.S. get out of its alliance with Israel?
- Affirmative Action Bake Sale: Offensive or Funny?
- Why should I care about climate change/global warming/being green/the environment?
- Is Reddit (web site with a big corporate parent behind it) spreading child porn?
- Why all the love for business figures who effectively won the lottery?
- Planned Parenthood right to discourage pro-choice picketing?
- Were dead Confederates US citizens?
- President Obama's Foreign Policy
- Future of unregulated free-market genetic engineering
- Straight Dope on Ruby Ridge and Waco?
- Do medical costs in Canada push people into bankruptcy despite universal health care?
- Is President Obama a Mass Murderer?
- If You Had the Power to Abolish Freedom of Religion in America
- Japan criminalizes paying protection and extortion money to organized crime.
- Suggestions for Specific Demands for Occupy Wall Street
- Should The USA Widen The Afghan War ? (To Pakistan)?
- Is it more ethical to eat larger animals?
- What do you think of lenders pursuing deficiency judgments against defaulting homeowners?
- Knox verdict overturned. Was there probable cause?
- Should Realtors and appraisers use foreclosed houses when calculating comps?
- Who killed JFK?
- What would the results be if stem cells are as revolutionary as claimed
- Kennedy assassination question
- How to End the Recession
- Greek debt crisis: Could Greece decree lower wages?
- Guerrilla War Terrible Tricks
- Protests happening around the world
- The Morality of Debt
- Happy Birthday, Lee Harvey Oswald
- Who messed up in regard to the Casy Anthony fiasco?
- Vice Businesses and Related Crime.
- Progressives? Is this an effective strategy?
- What if William the Norman had not conquered?
- Is there a connection between income inequality and economic collapses
- What would be a good strategy for American progressives?
- How can some people go to jail for 2+ years for being on To Catch A Predator?
- How are conspiracies possible?
- The American prison system makes no sense
- 10/15/11 - All illegal aliens leave the U.S.
- Missing Kansas City baby - odd that no one heard the kidnapper?
- Gender Disorder and Hormone Blocking Therapy
- if Canada allegedly discriminates against non-French speakers, did upper IQ cohort try learn it?
- WHY are psome people sexually aroused by children?
- Future of Social Liberalism In Europe?
- For those who think LHO didn't kill JFK, do you also doubt that OJ is guilty?
- Can someone explain me the american discussion about the invasion of Iraq?
- Cheap subsidised Gas for decades.
- Could the Mongols have conquered Europe?
- Britain gave it's American Colonies Parliament seats.
- Steve Wozniak- Underated and Forgotten?
- why introduce RFID in credit cards and passports vs magnetic strip or other contact-only records?
- Why is there so much gridlock in US politics today?
- Are there any thoughts (with no action) that are morally/ethically wrong?
- Reducing Corporate Income Tax: A Thought Experiment
- Reducing Corporate Income Tax: A Thought Experiment
- Will Bernard Kerik be killed?
- Is there a loophole in this gun law?
- Would allowing penalty free withdrawals from 401(k) accounts help the economy?
- Should Scientology be destroyed?
- How would this epiphany affect life on Earth?
- Are the 'occupy wall street' protesters being treated differently by police than the tea party
- Can you force a child to believe in God?
- Did Iran Almost/Actually Commit An Act of War Against The USA?
- Why Are There 3.2 Million Open Job Postings?
- The jobs bill just died in the Senate
- Modern Day Human Experimentation in the USA.
- Professor Asks a Stuttering Student [ed.] to Pose Qs Before or After Class
- How recently did firearms trump the best archers?
- In a libertarian society...
- Is the Media pulling a Kerry with Romney?
- One good reason why you should Tip ?
- Can someone explain to me the shootings in the US?
- Do scientists often admit they were wrong?
- Why has the Obama administration been so much more effective at killing terrorists than Bush's?
- Taxes from the Rich
- Israel's prisoner swap with Hamas
- BINARY LOGIC v QUANTUM THEORY?
- Will I see drastic effects of climate change in my lifetime?
- Secular Humanism
- What if the printing press had been invented in antiquity?
- Where Does the Old Covenant really End?
- Obams Sends Ground Troops to Africa
- Would military geniuses of the past do well today?
- Now this is what a good protest looks like!
- Catholic Bishop Charged With Failure to Report Child Porn
- For those who consider 'pirating' theft, would you 'pirate' a disagreeable work?
- How about this for a protest: Moving your money from a Bank to a Credit Union
- A Libertarian Constitution not open to ANY interpretation?
- No CLASS Obama!
- Economics-minimum wage
- Economics-devaluing the Chinese currency[edited title]
- Economics-drug legalization a good policy?[edited title]
- Economics-Recovery act of 1981[Edited title]
- Health Care costs, Wellness, and the Nanny State
- To those who believe in cosmic intelligent design, how would a random universe differ from our own?
- Are the "99" percent protestors getting too much press coverage?
- Was TARP a good idea?
- Eliminate Pensions
- Should the media cover gay teenage suicide
- Dale Farm: does English and Welsh law require tweaking?
- Should OK Sen. Tom Coburn give Stanley Thornton Jr. the apology he has requested?
- Seems like the Occupy protests have lost steam this week (10/19/11). Did they jump the shark?
- Should the government seek equal prosperity?
- You have 100 Blame Points. Assign them to those responsible for the financial meltdown.
- Cash banned in Louisiana
- Social Security Raise Election Ploy?
- Should a Rich Speeder Pay More?
- What would have happened in Iraq under the Arab Spring w/o the war
- What If the Surge Had Not Happened
- some weapon's question
- People who walk away from Mortgages that Can Afford it
- Did Jesus Christ have Asperger's?
- Availability and freedom of information
- How would Iran respond to any western "unsuitable act" ?
- Immigration for the best and brightest
- Cain's Definition of "Pro-Choice"
- Will they ever take away the Mortgage Interest Deduction? (US)
- Libertarian Ron Paul says that taxation is theft and immoral
- Pope prefers Occupy to Tea Party
- Gold standard driving out silver standard
- How many planets would there be if Pluto were still a planet?
- British Dopers, are things in the UK as bad as this Harper's article says they are?
- Republicans want more murders and rapes
- Fire the Federal Governement!!!
- End the US de facto ban on horse slaughterhouses
- Liberal administration denies FEMA assistance to conservative locale: Ethical?
- Funeral Protocol Changed
- The Gadhafi conundrum: Trial for his killers?
- What is Shariah law? And what does it do to/for states that implement a form of it?
- Portland, Oregon schools to allow anti-war groups in addition to military recruiters
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