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There's always the personal space Biden-isms... I think someone needs to tell him that he's not perpetually standing in line at a KFC in India.

The saying suggests, vice presidents win the presidency only when the majority would favor a third term for their incumbent president. With all the criticism Obama has gotten in his two terms, it's hard to know if Biden could win. The Obama admistriation went head on with participatory media, so...

We dug up a base that was about an hour helo ride out of DaNang, toward Kham Duc. We drove up the Ho Chi Minh Trail everyday to a hilltop post that the locals hadn't touched in 30 years... they thought it haunted, or something... they had retrieved their dead right away. The trail was paved with...

It's crazy how many minerals are in those mountains -- according to CENTCOM, roughly $1 trillion -- and the half billion of our tax dollars that tried to get the market started, only to watch it flop amid the usual political corruption and skill deficits...

I spent s couple of months in that jungle, digging up KIAs. It was insanely hot and humid, but we worked everyday knowing the monsoon was coming and would ruin our excavation progress. Our rule with snakes: black worms aren't worms, and run when the locals run. Also... don't make fun of the guy...

I get in this situation it was an airman, soldier and civilian, but it emphasizes why we should be glad the Marines moved toward teaching a mastery of martial arts about 15 years ago, so they can use their training in public defense, too. Most of the fighting I learned in the Marines was of the...

Expect a hairy ride for a fairly progressive Nuts/McCubbins...

Slave labor cannot exist in free, voluntary markets. It can exist in government-controlled markets. If someone is willing to work for cheap, why should government stop them? If my neighbor wants to watch kids on our street for $5 per hour, that's her thing. If I want volunteer my time without...

Government should protect open and free markets, and voluntary trade. It shouldn't dictate how private businesses are ran, or how much workers should get paid. And we should compete in an international market. I know it's questions that enable thinking, and invitational stems won't work with...

And your false dichotomies aren't a valid exercise in logic. There exists something between zero and infinity.

I did think that :wall: But it is nice to see left, right and centrist perspectives here. Personally, at this point in my life, I find myself on the left side of Libertarianism, where my biggest concerns are public education, foreign policy and domestic policy. The hardest thing about...

I don't subscribe to political parties, nor do I even occasionally watch Fox News. I have degrees in journalism and philosophy, and I've benefitted from experiencing and reflecting on life in various countries. My ideas are my own, and I gladly open them to debate, as a capable skeptic and...

I do not support that sort of government intrusion and socialist policy making. I've been around the world and seen how our government, overtly and covertly, messes things up. It's no better at shaping its own economic policy beyond corruption and mismanagement. If you're afraid of your job...

According to their Constitution, our social contract, and many political philosophers at the time, no. Economic freedom requires limited government structures in the way of private negotiations and trade. Freedom of reason, association, critical scrutiny and conscious decision-making are...

Regardless of what the U.S. Republicrats say, a nationalized market is not a free market. And closed-border policies represent a xenophobic and tribal socialist agenda that the founding fathers of the United States didn't support.