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  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 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
  • Government abuse of power

    South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008
  • Obama's Reparations

    Lately, I have been having conversations about a topic of profound significance to me. Essentially, I believe that if (probably when) Obama becomes president, as the masterful communicator that he is, he will be able to bring the issue of reparations for slavery into the national consciousness. For too long the issue of reparations has been ...
    Posted to Ballot Box by chriswallace112 on June 25, 2008
  • Why I'm an American in Exile...

    On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
  • Who's our Friends and why they are enemies

    Back during the 'golden days' of Reagan/Bush the Taliban were our pals. They were fighting the Russians,us arming the Taliban and Bin Ladin and anyone lese that would take our guns and cash really made the Wall come down.9/11,besides being a great metaphor for everything evil,was in reality a 'tool' to raise American Fighting Spirit. The very ...
    Posted to Explainer by Jeffrey7 on October 25, 2007
  • Colbert for Prez

    Wake Up America!!!! Stephen is doing thuis country a great service....proving our election system is bogus. I too am running a campaign a 'Draft Jeffrey7 for Prez in '08'. Why, to prove how corrupted this farce of a system is!! Stephen had the balls to show it takes money to get on a ballot. A lot of it!! Which is a far cry from 'Any citizen no ...
    Posted to Explainer by Jeffrey7 on October 25, 2007