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By Petrarch | Feb 29, 2008 |
4
Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.
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By Fennoman | Feb 27, 2008 |
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Each of the unfortunate changes in the American system which happened in 1913 would have resulted in some problems probably more manageable each on their own.
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By Petrarch | Feb 22, 2008 |
7
It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.
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By Demosthenes | Feb 19, 2008 |
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A government giveaway that actually solves a problem!
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By Petrarch | Feb 19, 2008 |
4
There is one way in which we can help the Cuban people, and that is by immediately and unilaterally ending the embargo that has been in place for all these years.
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By Petrarch | Feb 18, 2008 |
12
Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to choose to be an idiot.
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By Petrarch | Feb 5, 2008 |
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Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians. But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?
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By Petrarch | Jan 24, 2008 |
14
George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.
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By Demosthenes | Jan 21, 2008 |
20
In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?
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By Petrarch | Jan 8, 2008 |
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A computer can only do what it's told, or programmed, to do - it can't force people to do anything, unless they allow it to do so.