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- Exoplanet with possible life discovered.
- Should we go to Mars? How would we get there? How do we live there?
- Homeland security deports British twenty-somethings based on "joke" tweets
- What is a truly altruistic act? Does altruism really exist?
- Self-declared Wealth Tax
- "Shall Issue" gun carry has not led to a gun holocaust. What does this teach us?
- Is the human brain the most complex object in the universe?
- Electing members of sexist organizations?
- Question about credit default swaps after Khan Academy video
- Size-based discrimination in academia/the workforce
- Socialism + Rage Against the Machine
- Should Federal govt. civilian employees make more than private sector counterparts?
- The Great Divorce [Charles Murray’s book “Coming Apart”]
- Think Only Right-Wing Christians Doubt Obama's Professed Religion?
- How long before learning a foreign language is pointless?
- Any long-term climate predictions?
- Does God lie?
- Lawsuit Against Jesus (Statue)
- Concerning "Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus" Video
- "Feeling God's Presence"
- What parts of the Bible actually have some historical validity?
- Minority Schools
- Is the Contraception mandate a violation of religious freedom?
- Should socio-economic status be taken into account during sentencing
- How much money does Buffet's secretary make?
- Why not let prisoners kill themselves?
- Harvard and Princeton Targeted in U.S. Asian-American Discrimination Probe
- one of the technique to make an object invisible..what do you think? will it work?
- Bermuda Triangle
- Conflct between 1st and 6th Amendments
- Israel ready to attack Iran?
- If I can't trust a 20 year old to buy alcohol...
- Two interesting columns each with a different point
- R. Lee Ermey dissing Obama
- Syrian uprising massacre in Homs
- Why No Strong Push For Drug Reform?
- 10 Commandments
- Universalized health care and drug company profits
- Tell me about commodity ETFs and ETNs
- WWI: Why didn't the British invade Germany by sea?
- Why did Russia and China really veto the resolution on Syria?
- Longest generational string of "greatness"
- Earth Cancer or Progress
- Creationist Attempts to Prove the Existence of God / Denial of Evolution [merged threads]
- Free Trade
- Syria: Is there any way this can end well?
- How I Became a Secular Humanist/Atheist - Improved Formatting
- Did Captain Bode (USS Chicago) really screw up at Guadacanal?
- Assessing Obama's first three years in office
- Could Congress hypothetically change the prosecution's burden of proof for certain crimes?
- An Anecdote that is Supposed to Prove God
- The emotional life of the higher mammals
- Judeo-Christianity
- Assessing the effects of the stimulus package (ARRA 2009)
- Life and sentience must be biologically based? Or AI rights
- Dems vs. Bush2 and Pubs vs. Obama
- Would Transphobic people still have a problem if 100% effective sex-change surgery was available?
- Religion and Health Care Insurance.
- Why is socially provided universal healthcare 'better'?
- I Think I Know Why God Doesn't Heal Amputees
- Implications of Drone use in U.S. Airspace
- CBS' "MoneyWatch" adds environmental concerns to money ones
- Bush v Gore, the 4 that voted for Gore
- Living wage? We don't need no stinkin' living wage!
- Would it be even theoretically possible for a time traveler to prevent WWI?
- Should Christmas still be a federal holiday?
- Paranormal, telepathy, one million price from James Randi, telepathic Vinko and spoon bender Uri Gel
- Will the Current Bad PR for Apple Come to Anything?
- Why is a federal dept. of education needed?
- Is this evidence of a larger problem? [lawsuits and personal responsibility]
- Do you think honesty is overrated?
- Convince me to support American independence
- Why can't US tourists visit Cuba?
- Is the personal cost of this jury service too high?
- Who is the USA's Best Ally?
- ZERO income tax
- Supply of a Cancer Drug May Run Out Within Weeks
- Do you think words ought to be wild?
- Open the US/Canada border fully
- How would evolution proceed without predators?
- Is the White Underclass Less Traditionalist Than Thought?
- Are the Hutaree Militia guilty of sedition?
- Could dolphins make it to outer space? What about just to Newark?
- The USA now has homeless (tented) communities outside 55 cities?
- The Roman Catholic Church on Viagra?
- What's the real reason behind the Greek rioters?
- College admissions and scarcity
- Mormons baptized Simon Wiesenthal...so what?
- Boys get to go on a movie field trip, girls don't
- Could the Keystone pipeline become a terrorist target?
- What is the reason behind the fact that white females like black males rather than white males?
- What if a President Ron Paul did end the Federal Reserve?
- Wait a sec... Doesn't birth control pay for itself?
- The New Testament, War and Magic.
- Interesting hard data on UK Christian Belief
- Did the USSR provide us with any lessons that aren't in the category of "don't try this at home"?
- MF Global parent being sued on behalf of child (corporate personhood)
- Trading economic efficiency for compassion.
- How would an anarchist society avoid recreating government?
- Is This Rape?
- Could fighters have at least partially replaced bombers in WWII Europe?
- What restrictions (if any) should be in place for content in creative writing classes?
- (Iranian) attempts to assassainate ambassadors
- Turning your life over to God?
- GOP RIP: the price of progress?
- The Catholic church and birth control
- It's a travesty to end someone's career over "chink in the armor"
- Any realistic way out of the Greece mess whatsoever?
- The "Great Deception"
- Is It Possible, Within the Parameters of the Constitution... [apportioning votes to parties]
- Will marriage equality be a part of the Democratic Party platform this year?
- Agnostics--could you more precisely state your position?
- The Mongolian Empire adopts an authoritarian central government. How far do they go?
- Would Obama have been elected without Osama Bin Ladan?
- They're coming for your Plan-B
- Should We "Believe" Dictators
- People who support all drugs being OTC...explain your reasoning
- The politics of Quran burning
- Who should be able to own a hospital? Jehovah's Witnesses? Christian Scientists?
- Is committing murder over burned Korans a common Middle-Eastern disposition?
- Affirmative action in the Supreme Court again
- Who is David James, Baron James of Blackheath
- Is it "cheating" to sleep with someone else while "on a break" from a relationship?
- Would it be theoretically possible for humans to wipe out all life on Earth?
- Texas gives Obama the middle finger
- Should states be fighting Obamacare on religious grounds?
- Why do same-sex marriage laws require religious exemptions?
- Are long-term sting operations wrong?
- Why did the Vietnam US POW rumors stay alive so long?
- Transporters and the destruction of the self: What am I missing here?
- Will we ever encounter a multisexed sentient species?
- Why is the US behind educationally?
- Government-sanctioned rape?
- The case of Zombie Muhammad vs. the Offended Muslim Guy
- The Curious Case of the Cougar and the Commissioner
- Intelligence of whales and dolphins
- Believers: What part of your dogma do you not accept?
- Libertarianism and Moralism
- Guantanamo is STILL open. Why isn't the left bitching about it?
- How much has NAFTA harmed US manufacturing jobs or output?
- You are Nixon, January 1969: Fastest/Best way to withdraw from Vietnam?
- No life or short life?
- RCC cardinal says they'll shut down all hospitals if they have to
- Traits of Personhood (and Economics)
- Ireland to have referendum on EU Fiscal Stability Treaty.
- Ohio School Shooter - Moral/Legal Role of the Parents?
- Artificial meat
- Ethical to refuse treatment to Catholics?
- Mainstream Christians and Jews: Be honest, what do you think of Mormons?
- Tax-free state payment of $15k/£10k to get sterilized
- "Ten Ways Obama Could Reduce Gas Prices Now"
- How much is man meant to work?
- Perfect example of USA's morals being ass-backwards--CAUGHT ON TAPE!!
- Biggest effect on child success is month of birth?
- When (if ever) Will Marijuana Become Legal?
- Stasis fields and the destruction of the self
- Giving Saakashvili armament... once again?!
- Past the technolgical singularity, is communism the only way forward?
- If you were in charge of the Fed, how would you stimulate the economy?
- Drug Legalization Debate Thread
- To any Libertarian. Would you authorize a new $1 billion agency to save $10 billion?
- U.S. Oil exports
- Money and the school system
- Medical ethicists: sure, it's ok to kill babies. "After-birth abortions".
- Organ Donation and Ethics
- Tax Takers vs Tax Payers
- Lindbergh Baby dropped on its noggin 80 years ago this week
- 'Witchcraft' couple face life sentences.
- Are apologies meaningful?
- Making foie gras is cruel.
- Why ARE so many creative people Gay?
- Stricter justic better, perhaps eye for eye
- Is Emanuel Levinas that important?
- People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say
- If "there's no such thing as race," is there such a thing as gender?
- Why is violence acceptable in American media but not nudity or swearing.
- When is a Catholic no longer a Catholic?
- Maryland gun law found unconstitutional
- Is the justification for government-sponsored murder a bunch of (legal and/or moral) bullshit?
- Paradise in the Book of Genesis, the origin of man
- What alternatives to IP laws have been proposed?
- Why Would Insurers Tell Untruths About Global Warming?
- Senator McCain calls for U.S. intervention in Syria
- Mandatory Voting for Minors
- Everyone in the USA has access to birth control
- So why Birth Control Especially?
- Is there any ironclad way for the lead character in "Awake" to determine which is the dream?
- Putin's Back: Good or Bad For US-Russia Relations?
- Did Limbaugh slander Sandra Fluke?
- Invisible Children / Kony thing = scam?
- Women posing nude are now a PRO-Feminist thing?????
- Why was McClellan extremely cautious (U.S. Civil War)?
- Resolved: Under The Affordable Care Act, No One Is Paying For Anyone Else's Birth Control
- Help me untangle this logical paradox involving mental conception
- Higgs Boson
- "Nobody really knows what happens after death." Is that just pc BS?
- Any and all Relatavists...I Need a Hand
- Where is the African community doing best?
- Is there any useful distinction between "porn", "erotica" and "pictorial nudity".
- Is there any name for this kind of argument (error)??
- Reasons for the decline of classical education?
- E.T: Friend or Foe?
- US Soldiers killing Afghani civilians.
- Conservatives: Does it piss you off that Rush's asinine approach is discrediting a valid point?
- "More Americans Seeking Dental Treatment At The ER"
- Wherefore "base"?
- From YouTube to The New York Times: KONY 2012 and The Changing Direction of the Media
- Catholics: Are you upset by Obama's new birth control rule?
- The education situation in Alabama and Mississippi…
- Why did the ancient Hebrews not allow guys with mangled/missing privates into temple?
- Ethical Nihilism v. Situations That Call For Answers.
- I propose that we end all wars
- The Banality of Evil?
- Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs -- justified opinion?
- Location of Trial For Soldier Accused of Afghani Murders
- Death With Dignity...for some?
- Can you feel it? It's all culminating into something huge.
- American Destupization 2012
- March 16, 2012 Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness
- Why do Americans stop doing homework [re: Keystone XL pipeline]
- Did Fox News kill this man's mother?
- Is there a justifiable reason why health care reform has taken so long to implement?
- Controlled rhino dehorning
- Armenian Genocide - what the hell is Turkey's problem?
- Why must contraceptives be FREE?
- Joe Paterno: Enabler or Scapegoat?
- Can a men's chorus exclude gays? Exclude straights? How about a basketball league?
- No environmental and public health regulations => universal health care
- Florida neighborhood watch killing
- Okay, what does it reveal about the Republican party that the individual mandate was its idea?
- Chevy Volt - What Were They Thinking?
- Florida's Stand Your Ground law - good or bad law? Poorly understood?
- Is gold in a monetary induced bubble?
- Should US Supreme Court justices get top-notch security and protection?
- Why do doctors over prescribe drugs?
- Was Martin on Zimmerman's property when he was killed?
- Paternal Responsibility
- Breaker Morant- Was He A Scapegoat?
- Cellphone radiation dangers?
- Is there any limit to the commerce clause
- I'm not baptized. My MIL prays for my soul. Not sure I'm comfy with that
- Everything we are is absurd and arbitrary
- Human Technology and Progress: How Important Is Absolute Population Size?
- Duke Lacrosse, DSK, Trayvon Martin ...
- Justices signal possible trouble for health insurance mandate
- Is this 56 day sentence for racist remarks considered sane in the UK?
- If the Kochs complete the Cato takeover...
- What is the secular purpose of DOMA
- EPA Moves to Effectively Ban all New Coal Power Plants
- How much population loss to not have a significant impact?
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