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At the "heart" of the debate
Lithwick says: The fight playing out between the left and the right now isn't ''Did we water-board?'' We already knew we did. It is barely even ''Was it legal?'' Virtually nobody seriously argues that it was. The fight we are having in America now is ''Did it work?'' She's right. Case in point: see the lead photograph and caption in a recent ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by dpopowski on April 28, 2009
This could also be tactical
Two of the Bush administration's main advantages in their assault on the constitution are that it takes so long for cases to get resolved in our court system and the Courts, particularly the Supreme Court, have never spoken on many of these issues before. The Court has never defined the extent of the states secret privilege and never looked at ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by rmonjay on February 10, 2009
How does a democrat tick?
Democrats are into politics for the sole purpose of obscuring the definition of morality, and passing subsequent laws that make morality illegal in the United States. Democrats want all lights to be green and let everyone fend for themselves at the intersections. Because of the irresponsible and inconsiderate lifestyle of this misrepresentation ...
Posted to War Stories by Firefly on October 3, 2008
The Big Bailout...Ha!
There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008
Re: Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias
Media bias is a perceived notion that certain press has and is pushing a viewpoint, instead of reporting news or airing programs in an objective way. That is the way I see it. Such bias often refers to media as a whole, such as a newspaper chain, or a given television or radio network, instead of individual reporters or writers of television ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 2008
Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias
How the Media Vote. Surveys of journalists’ self-reported voting habits show them backing the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1964, including landslide losers George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. In 2004, a poll conducted by the University of Connecticut found journalists backed John Kerry over George W. ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 2008
Amazing that Americans Have This Discussion
Having studied American civics in grade school and high school, and having my doubts that Bush Cheney or anyone else in our current White House similarly learned about American history, traditions, institutions and law, it continually amazes me that this Bush Cheney Presidency has run riot so egregiously. Congress? Lay down. The Courts? Lay ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
McCain's Unhappy Warrior
This piece says one smart thing and one stupid thing. Yes, the gas price ad was dumb, as the writer recognizes. But on this point he was dead wrong: his Surge attack was dumb too, and hence the writer's statement is dumb, because it buys into the fallacious arguments that: 1) The Surge is working, because it lowered our troops' death rate in ...
Posted to Politics by klevenstein on July 22, 2008
What Is He Doing?
I am so upset with not only Barak Obama but all the Democrats. First let me say, I am a Democrat. Not because I believe in socialism but because I hate the politics of oil, corporate welfare, and, let's face it, the Republicans have not shown themselves to be the fiscally conservative party most argue them to be. Additionally, I hate the war, ...
Posted to Today's Papers by ThisSucks on July 11, 2008

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