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- Totally Spent - how this recession will be different.
- "The only way to keep the economy going over the long run is to increase the wages of the bottom two-thirds of Americans. "
- Different - Not so much
- Good article - thanks.
- Reich is good. He's frequently on NPR.
- I remember him.
- "U.S. deficient against Muslim insurgents, (Pentagon funded) study says"
- McCain defends '100 years in Iraq' statement
- Makes you say - Humm
- re: A One-Superpower World
- A fascinating document, if it's not a fraud.
- re: A fascinating document, if it's not a fraud.
- Old news.
- The genesis of the "Project for the New American Century"
- A fascinating document, if it's not a fraud.
- re: A One-Superpower World
- Makes you say - Humm
- McCain defends '100 years in Iraq' statement
- I would swear there have been 8 to 10 mass shootings lately.
- A handgun has only two reasons for being
- The easy solution to this problem...
- How many of these were in "gun-free" zones? (n/t)
- McCain and Obama sweep the Chesapeake Trifecta
- A couple of comments
- Robert - Well said... (n/t)
- A fear of mine. Deja vu.
- Penn Jillette's election prediction
- The "Will Hillary Lose Gracefully?" bet
- The further Hilary gets behind the better I feel
- Corn ethanol update
- I told you to buy the original green stock: ADM
- Unholy alliance update
- Fidel Castro agrees.
- Hillary more conservative than McCain?
- captured spys...
- sliding down that slippery slope
- the chinese already do much more than waterboarding to spys.
- Lots of people have defined it as torture
- re: the chinese already do much more than waterboarding to spys.
- "nobody has yet to definitively define waterboarding as torture"
- rDid the gestopo use waterboarding? I would have thought that they had other "tools" at their disposal.
- Not-as-bad-as-Hitler?
- Yes. They called it the "u-boat" technique. (n/t)
- And lets not forget that we abhored it when the japanese used it. (n/t)
- We'll see. The USA's courts may very rule that it is torture.
- rDid the gestopo use waterboarding? I would have thought that they had other "tools" at their disposal.
- Tell that to the WW2 Japanese tried and convicted for it. (n/t)
- the chinese already do much more than waterboarding to spys.
- sliding down that slippery slope
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