I think that eventually there will have to be a nationwide standard regarding whether to recognize same-sex marriage. The ammendment as I have seen it restricts marriage to only one man and one woman.
The comments from Powell that were posted don't have anything to do with "stockpiles" of WMDs. In fact, most of Powell's remarks have to do with non-compliance with 1441. Every other country in the world (except Iraq) thought that Iraq had WMD. There aren't any major non-Iraqi foreign leaders who said Iraq didn't have WMD prior to the war.
Even if the voter accumulates a laundry list of cultural values from church-going to gun-control it should scarcely influence the voter when weighed against home defense, war and the economy. I would agree that issues of warfare, national security, and national defense should be at the top of the list f
Take a look at a map. Notice how North Korea, Iran, and Afghanistan surround China. What happens when the USA invades Iran, China says "Ummm, we'd prefer you didn't invade another country so close to us; your ability to build air bases and missle silos there threatens our national security and is really starting to piss us off?"<
Greywar, are you using the JoeUser square bracket tags, or html?
The UN could be installed to help rebuild much of the war-torn Palestine, and any further attacks on Israel by Hamas (or other groups) could be treated as the terrorist threats they are, not just by Israel, but also by the rest of the world. Would that mean there would be an international force in Pales
Great post Tytan. One of the things I have noticed as I have started a career as a programmer is that it is relatively easy to copy or rework someone else's ideas, but very difficult to come up with original solutions or ideas.
My problem is that aggressive interrogation of detainees can get out of hand, as we've seen recently. I wouldn't consider the activities at Abu Gharaib "interrorgation" and I have not seen them described as such. Agressive interrogation is not abuse.
Ok, suppose the US demanded that Israel stop attacking Palestinians and withdraw troops and settlements to pre-1967 borders. Suppose also the US agreed to guarantee Israel protection from foreign military invasions. Assume Israel agrees to the demands. Given those conditions, what should be done to stop Palestinian terrorists?
I am an undecided voter, but I wonder what you think the Kerry people would do different in terms of this issue than what is being done now? I am worried that Kerry would close GITMO. I am worried that Kerry would end agressive interrogations of detainees. I think that if Kerry was in office, w
Libertarians are basically extremely "conservative" on fiscal issues and extremely "liberal" on social issues, in general.
So why did we think they posed such a risk recently enough to have to go to war with them a second time? Because we thought they might manufacture WMDs and give them to terrorists. Another reason to go to war was to end the sanctions without empowering Saddam. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" a
From the consumer's point of view, getting something "free" is better than paying for something, and getting something integrated with the OS is generally more convenient than buying 3rd party software. It seems like the major problem is that there is no legal incentive for OS companies to compensate third parties for using their ideas. I think the "low hanging fruit" analogy is correct. Often times for "utility" programs, many people
How do you have a democracy where one set of citizens are considered second class--and that is not even mentioning the occupied territories? Israel claims to be a democracy, but in reality, doesn't come close. African-Americans were treated as second-class citizens or worse for nearly 200 years of Ameri
How did the Iraq war weaken Middle Eastern countries? Surely knowing that Israel actually HAS nuclear weapons is the most obvious threat in the middle east right now? A threat to Syria maybe, but not the US or Europe. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class
Have you seen improvements in Iraq during your time there, and if so, what are they?
I got 34. I have figured out that when someone agrees with me politically, they are conservative. If they are to the right of me, they're ultra-conservative. If they are slightly to the left of me they're moderate, and when someone is way, way to the left, they're liberal. I think that it is fairly common for liberals to not think they're liberal. Even John Kerry doesn't want to be portrayed as "liberal". But I am glad you are able t
The stance taken by JoeUser is that the "right" of someone to control their own blog outweighs the "right" of someone else to make a comment. In fact, it is possible to disable comments completely. The obvious justification for this is that anyone is free to create their own blog and write about whatever they want. There is public radio and TV in the US, but it is probably not as heavily subsidized as the BBC, and it is not as influen
In a democracy, the individual's right to express their religion is moderated by the secularly state's right to protect ALL those within the state from feeling threatened or pressurised. It is certainly true that threats are not protected under the guise of free speech. However, I wouldn't agree that al
I have played a couple games in mission 2. Both times, my relationship with the Altarians has been hovering between warm and friendly, and then out of the blue they declare war on me.
First you say that the information is anecdotal than you off anecdotal evidence as proof? What did I call anecdotal? I did not say that the congressional statistic was misleading because it was anecdotal. I said it was misleading because the percentage of members of Congress with a child in Ira
One of the hallmarks of democracy is freedom of speech. One would think that government property would be the place where freedoms are most protected, not most restricted. Is the display of religious symbols really so harmful that it cannot be tolerated? Polygamy is a good example of why it isn't approptriate to give everyone carte blanche to do anything in the name of religious practice, but wearing a headdress is certainly not the same as po
As for the recruiting, I was recruited very heavily when I graduated from high school, which was prior to 9/11, and I live in a relatively upscale city, and I'm not poor.
So I ask if our government did not want to mislead us about Iraq why did 72% of Americans actually believe Saddam had something to do with it at the time? People can be misinformed about lots of things without any help from the government. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" a
Other Saudis than the Bin Ladens were hurried out of the country before regular air traffic resumed. No. No one was flown out of the country while airplanes were still grounded.
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