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- Would inflation hurt or help the economy? (And other questions)
- Was the US founded on Judeo-Christian values? If so, which ones?
- According to Christian theology, will a twice-married person be with BOTH spouses in Heaven?
- Do the police police their family and friends?
- What's the biggest conspiracy the U.S. government could cover up?
- Why not restore Glass-Steagall?
- The big banks are not too big to fail
- The racist Tea Party is in love with Herman Cain
- Would you be weirded out if a boy joined your daughter's Girl Scout troop?
- Classist Wall Street occupiers refuse to share food, bridge gaps with marginalized homeless
- U. S. Debt/Deficit Solution?
- "The rich have no right to money as long as the poor are starving."
- Would military geniuses of today and recent times do well yesterday?
- PETA to sue Sea World for slavery
- Alternate WWII History: The US Has a Balanced Budget Amendment
- Why are men falling behind?
- What weapons development projects do we actually need?
- Banning the use of hand held cell phones while driving ?
- Antibiotic Use vs Libertarianism
- Should the People of Wyoming Pay for Infrastructure in Mississippi?
- The Commonwealth has abolished male primogeniture.
- How did prohibition get approved in the drunkest place on Earth?
- Where's our immortal soul when we sleep?
- Occupy (insert name of city here)
- Who benefits from another Depression?
- Is being non-diligent in a medical crisis morally similar to suicide?
- Alternate Europe: 1901
- God's omniscience
- Christians, why the focus on the crucifixion?
- Do societies anywhere have organized/mainstream methods of obtaining social redemption
- Illegitimate babies born to poor, black, single, inner-city women in South are "endangered species"?
- "Liberals make the best capitalists"
- Hypothetical: The US never ratifies the 12th amendment
- Anonymous vs Drug Cartel in Mexico ...
- Any Mithraists out there?
- Does Arnold Toynbee have our number?
- What happens to Williston, ND when the oil deposits run out?
- If Greece votes no to EU bailout what will happen?
- Did Frank Finkel survive the Battle Of Little Big Horn?
- Into the fire: Why was/is Jesuitism so hated?
- DNA test on "discarded" breathilyzer mouthpiece needs no warrant
- What is the least racist country on the planet?
- Britain and the Euro Crisis.
- Galileo's punishment "tragic, mutual misunderstanding"
- Are circus elephants abused? How sensitive are elephants to pain?
- Who Won the Sexual Revolution?
- Do you think the store needed to apologize?
- What a good baseline set of knowledge, below which "Scientific Illiteracy" Lurks?
- Subprime auto loan securitization. Haven't we seen this movie before?
- Is Greece heading for a coup d'etat?
- Racial food stereotypes
- Is military action against Iran an inevitability?
- What if we just Forgive Everyone's Debt?
- .001%? (One servicemember's response to OWS)
- Civil War Was Not Over Slavery?
- Why don't we have mandatory child rearing course in school?
- Infinite growth on a planet with finite resources
- Hypothetical: Retiring in a year. Don't own home. 401K value $300K.Buy a home?
- Was Heisenberg a Nazi collaborator, saboteur, or something in between?
- What's the benefit to society of stock speculation? [edited title]
- Voting systems
- If polygamy were made legal, would the mainstream LDS return to it?
- Is Guy Fawkes an admirable figure?
- US border patrol agent Jesus Diaz case
- A National God?
- Does "sin" really exist? I maintain there is no such thing.
- The influence of one heavy Cruiser on the WWII Pacific theatre
- How can a Libertarian be opposed to the Right to Privacy?
- What if: People are infertile until 21
- Would a Constitutional amendment like this be workable?
- Napolitano is refusing to enforce law aimed at returning criminal aliens to their home country
- Israel/Iran - which is most likely to do something catastrophically stupid?
- Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
- Was Nathan Bedford Forest really da shizznit in the war?
- What would happen if the British monarch publicly declared him/herself an atheist?
- Whom does a land belong to?
- Property prices in China in freefall: is China crashing?
- No Junk Food Policy in schools
- How is OWS Supposed to Work?
- Jackson's doc guilty: good long term for law and docs, or bad?
- I am 32, why should I care about health care benefits at work?
- Expel all the trash to space!
- Govt. cuts in heating assistance
- What does Iran really want, geostrategically?
- Prospects of revolution/reform in Iran?
- Liberal Programs Deserve Blame for Income Inequality
- Quick, informal, ranking of national economys
- Obama complains about Netanyahu; Sarkozy calls N. a 'liar'. Worse than the Green Line speech?
- The social views of Muslims
- The indoctrination of Pakistan's population makes a durable peace impossible in South Asia
- Should Joe Paterno be fired now?
- College athletics should be banned
- Is the US police system fundamentally broken?
- Its time for Israel to launch Operation Susa
- When did the NRA become a hyper-partisan anathema to rational thought?
- Arrested and charged with inciting hatred for pictures of poppy burning posted to facebook.
- The elevated social status of soldiers, police officers, and firemen, is it well deserved?
- How damaging is thoughtless pride in capitalism?
- Correcting my understanding of Liberalism
- Chinese spring...sooner than later?
- Wildlife triage - abandoning the Panda
- Atheists in foxholes
- Is the Seine special?
- How would you handle the decolonisation of British India
- What if:Obama is closet Islamophobe
- Right to Assemble
- Is entitlement illogical? Unethical?
- Should the Supreme Court care about public opinion polls?
- For you Constitutional Originalists - where is the Right to Self Defense?
- State lawforbids clergy from having sex with someone who is receiving religious advice
- Is fascism the natural state?
- Democrats, would Hillary Clinton have made a better president than Obama?
- China and Russia question (support for countries like Syria)
- How much should immigrants of other cultures change to fit the culture of their new homeland?
- Ninth Amendment Rights
- Both Thomas and Kagan face pressure to recuse
- NYSE Shuts Down(Chinese Cyberattack): How To Respond?
- Theoretical legal question - found guilty but can't implement sentance
- UFC sues to legalize their sport in New York
- Wow, I agree with Limbaugh on something (99% vs. 1%)
- John lennon and the beatles
- Future of World Geopolitics
- Your explaination for this work of God
- Ex-Seattle Police Chief: "Militaristic" response to 1999 WTO protests was big mistake
- Let's talk SOPA
- A new copyright and trademark law for a new era
- nuclear power should abandoned
- Pizza as a vegetable?
- "Lakes" on Europa near the surface
- Where is reality?
- What's behind the backlash against health/nutrition issues in the schools?
- States, Subsidiarity, and its problems
- Another JFK Conspiracy thread - Gary Mack
- Deficit committee blows up, any surprise?
- Is the electorate the problem?
- Darwinian Evolution for the Chicken and Egg
- Obama and Reverend Wright?
- What are Christian Principles? Do they exist?
- Problem is, it ain't the 1%, it's the 5+%
- A Congressional Black Caucus is ok but a Congressional White Caucus is not. Why?
- Why was Mexico's revolution less successful than the American one?
- What do you think of this plea deal?
- If murder was legal, would there be more murders?
- The Definition of Poor in America
- CA Supremes Give Standing to Prop Proponents to Defend Laws
- Macroeconomics: What is "Savings" (Multiple Choice)
- When does the congressional obstructionism stop?
- What would it take....X-Prize space missions?
- Will Republican obstructionism succeed or backfire?
- Taxes as Public Record
- Is gratitude for the military overemphasized?
- Was Getting to the Moon in 1969 an Overachievment for the Human Race?
- Why do you not believe in ADHD?
- Could D.B. Cooper have been a French-Canadian?
- Article in The Guardian (UK) regarding the OWS protests taking place across the United States
- Motion: TTHB that it is in the interests of women's equality to campaign against maternity leave
- Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence, And Why We'll Never Agree
- Which philosophy assumes we want to help others?
- God is not a "crutch"
- What Would Be The Worst Case Scenario For The Euro
- 28 Pakistani Soldiers Killed in NATO Attack: Time to Withdraw?
- Is there a hard problem without a simple solution?
- Is the GI bill responsible for the problems inner-city blacks face today?
- Should police SWAT protocol be revised?
- Ohio puts 200-pound third-grader in foster care
- "When Did The GOP Lose Touch With Reality" by David Frum
- Can the Western form of government really be called representative democracy?
- Is is possible that we're all too biased to figure out what the truth actually is?
- What would be the consequences of an immortality drug?
- Preemptive strikes/actions
- Regarding "heaven is for real"
- Iranian protesters storm UK embassy
- When will this debt crisis end?
- Would the Philippines have started US's entry into World War II?
- Mormons and their [reputed] Lies
- Why are the dominant world religions monotheistic?
- "Flu shots make me sick -- why on earth did I even bother?"
- Should Eric Holder resign?
- Are atheists on the rise, or just more vocal?
- Democrats takeover in 2008. What would have happened?
- Go ahead, raise my taxes! How much?
- So Lucy, 'splain something to me: how could a just God kill David's baby for his father's crimes?
- Would immortal humans be ultimately benevolent, or not much different than mortal humans?
- Obama Payroll Tax Cut Extension - Fair?
- Believers deem atheists as untrustworthy as rapists
- Who wins an Obama vs Gingrich debate?
- US Senate votes to authorize indefinite detentions
- Adam Carolla's Take on Occupy Wall Street
- Proposed senate bill aims to outlaw overtime for IT professionals
- Is this film an accurate portrayal of Mormon/LDS teachings?
- Poor children don't know how to work.
- Knee-Jerk Atheist?
- Is evolutionary psychology a pseudoscience?
- Which is the best way to disarm Pakistan
- What, no thread on the unemployment rate drop?
- Is the Austrian school of economics finally dead with Ron Paul's retirement?
- The bomb buried in Obamacare goes off today
- US Senate declares the entire USA to be a "battleground"
- 15-30 years for killing the insane woman who murdered your son?
- Raindogs comments.. [on belief and proof - edited title]
- Putin's United Russia loses ground in parliamentary election
- Arguments for the non-existence of God.
- RB-47 UFO - "first scientific proof of the existence of UFOs"?
- Predestination vs. Free Will
- So where is the lazy American worker?
- Clarkson is right on this - people who kill themselves via train
- People in vegetative states
- Nanny State FDA Wants To Kill The Cigar Trade
- If you get drunk on an airplane, forcing it to be diverted, should you lose your job?
- John Mace's (and others') opinion about societal fairness, 99%, etc
- The Coming Jobs War by Jim Clifton: Your Take?
- Time's Person of the Year
- Critiqe this (citizen approach to fedral budget defecit)
- Should the US Supeme Court Allow Video Cameras?
- The Big Bang
- Obama's ground breaking speech on the destruction of the American middle class -
- Attawapiskat - Solutions?
- What is the appropriate fix for the US Postal Service?
- What would WWI be like with today's journalists and reporting technology?
- What Was Wrong With the Old Covenant (Religious)?
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
- Help me understand CEO pay
- Philly DA No Longer Seeks Death for Jamal
- Obama Nobel Prize, regret in awarding it?
- What if we just let the government print money?
- Is there serious racial discrimination against Asians in US college admissions?
- Are we/you in the kingdom of the blind?
- Creationist rhetoric
- Creationist Role-Reversal
- AviationDopers: Was Pierre-Cedric Bonin (Air France 447) a jerk?
- Jon Corzine is being framed by the media and Congress
- why is the universe a mystery?
- About those student loans and the future of higher education
- A world with no tobacco
- Giving granola bars to the homeless
- Why democracy has semi-sacred status?
- Sebelius makes plans for no Plan B
- Should Britain leave the European Union?
- Should those sterilized in eugenics programs be compensated?
- Bernie Sanders' answer to Citizens United
- Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- Do video games make you violent?
- If Newt had said this:
- Does money buy elections?
- How Much Does Personal Morality Play A Role In Politics
- Communicating with someone from an ancient civilization.
- Most universal joke
- Was Lincoln Right In Suspending Habeas Corpas?
- What counts as a 'sin'?
- Explain Ireland from 1922 to about 1990
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