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Look at the distribution of African tribal groups and then look at the distribution of conflict. Country lines are based on European land claims, not on ethnic homogeneity. Consequently, ethnic conflict has been rampant for decades, costing millions of lives. We need to redraw boundaries in...

Who are these idiots you speak of? I have no complaints about taxation. I merely point out that taxation undoubtedly would not satisfy the duty assigned by Christ. Anything Jesus said is totally irrelevant to the subject of taxation.

The main problem in Africa would seem to be the boundaries the colonial overlords drew, which were totally arbitrary and never made any sense to the local people. Those magic lines have fueled decades and decades of needless conflict.

I may not be able to defend this post in the future. What the fuck is this shit software? I was cringing at quoting and replying...

Jesus didn't want any government to force its citizens to help the poor. That burden is on individual people, who must consciously choose to help the poor. So I don't understand why Republicans must be bound for hell. It's an individual choice; ideology is totally irrelevant.

The government takes the healthcare system over. It either contracts with private parties to provide services or it hires its own personnel and operates its own facilities. You go to the doctor or to the hospital and the government pays. The insurance company middlemen cease to exist and the...

The link between healthcare and commerce is certainly sufficient to justify single payer under congress' commerce clause power. There would be no constitutional problem with such a system.

What is this original single payer proposal you speak of? Obama never proposed any kind of single payer system, so obviously Republicans had nothing to do with bastardizing it. Obama explicitly dismissed single payer as "hugely disruptive" and dropped the task of writing his healthcare reform on...

I've never uttered a word about Benghazi, but I don't think people are suggesting Obama should have known it was going to happen in advance, only complaining about what they perceive as some kind of cover up (I could be wrong about what they're saying, I don't follow it). That's not equivalent...

I don't know where we're getting this idea that Bush ignored the briefing. The briefing contained no actionable intelligence and no evidence of anything. It didn't identify any specific threat and explicitly cast doubt on aviation being the target. What is the president supposed to do with it...

I'm sorry that I don't sit here 24/7 for your amusement. What citation do you want? Have you not actually read the PDB you're referencing? If you had, you would know that's all it says: "Terrorists want to attack you." Well, actually it says "Terrorists want to attack you, but we have no...

From your article: "'a group presently in the United States' was planning a terrorist operation"; terrorist attacks "could be 'imminent'"; "a coming attack"; "planned near-term attacks to have 'dramatic consequences'"; "operation...'will occur soon'"; etc. The sum of the infamous briefing...

Apparently the author is unfamiliar with Virginia.

Bush didn't ignore anything. "Terrorists want to attack you" is not actionable. Should the CIA/FBI have connected some dots and uncovered the plot? Absolutely. But they didn't.

If you're talking about 9/11 again, you should meet Google images.

Given that most of the passengers were Chinese, China could have been the target, if terrorism was involved. I thought immediately of the mass stabbing that just occurred there, which is being called a terrorist attack.

Already addressed this with the tax credit, which distributes the benefit exactly where you claim it is intended to go in a way that is also incredibly easy to police. Surely you recognize that the universal condemnation of homosexuality in the Western world in the period you just referenced...

If your goal is to reward children, which you say are the great benefit to society that justifies the tax savings, shouldn't we just have a bigger child tax credit? Otherwise you're indiscriminately passing along tax savings to tens of millions of childless couples, which sums to a substantial...

Take creed and sex out under federal law. The only impermissible bases there are race, color, national origin, and religion, which is why hate groups have no protection from discrimination in public accommodations.

Even if there isn't a biological basis that doesn't make it a choice. If you're born to English-speaking parents in an English-speaking country, you have no choice but to learn English, even though that choice wasn't fixed by biology or at birth.