i dont have a problem with the police using tasers when it's appropriate, but I think the criteria for "appropriate" has taken a landslide lately.
How many people are arrested for Contempt of Cop?
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i dont have a problem with the police using tasers when it's appropriate, but I think the criteria for "appropriate" has taken a landslide lately.
How many people are arrested for Contempt of Cop?
I'm going to offer a new perspective here on this whole "church and state" that seems to be popping up.
America has a democracy (for the sake of staying on topic, let's just suppose this is true) or...
but anyway, i thhink the main point of this thread (i THINK, it is not clearly stated), is the atheist movements of the then and now. one thing that was not addressed (insoafar as I have read) is...
this is as far as i read, so this may already have been addressed but i must disagree strongly with this point. bill maher made a documentary that mocks religion in "religious." Trey Parker and Matt...
How can you establish an empirical, causal connection between campaign contributions and candidate electability. One could say that Huntsman receives no money because he is not popular, OR that he is...
things like America don't collapse, they erode over a generation or two. and yes, it will
1) no im not
the tea party isnt one united group, and there's quite a bit of differing opinions from within it. Half of the tea party is neocon and the other half is staunchly libertarian, and the...
this is the digital age, facebook and twitter are more important than cnn and fox news. money helps, yes, but it only gets you so far. youre also evading my point. politicians would much rather sell...
Congress has about a 90% re-election rate
disregard this message, i didnt mean to reply twice
donations aren't votes. its not about lobbying its about how many people will show up to vote. if a millionaire contributes 500,000 to a campaign, guess what? its still 1 vote, as opposed to the...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattcherette/the-15-most-memorable-christopher-hitchens-quotes-4td5
I'm not an expert on the palestinians, but it might be different than saying that everyone is an invented people. what it really comes down to is do the palestinians have a culture that is unique and...
i dont know if anyone still cares or reads about this post, and i didnt read all of it, but ill give my two sense of the occupy movement
1. you can empirically determine that the income inequality...
the link i posted? I'll post it again
http://www.alternet.org/media/148518/11_freedoms_that_drunks,_slackers,_prostitutes_and_pirates_pioneered_and_the_founding_fathers_opposed_/?page=entire
i posted evidence to the contrary a few days ago
and it's not an article that the Huffington Post wrote itself. It was taken from an excerpt of a book by historian Thaddeus Russell
what you posted was article talking about how chriistian the founding fathers were. that goes right in line with the article talking about how they forced chrisitan cirtues and values on the...
nope the actual leaders of the Revolution, John Adams especially...
The problem is nicely summed up as such:
"we can't legally stop people from obeying the law"
Seems like the bigger issue is that congressional approval has been around 20% for 20 years now and they still have 90% of all fat cats come back every election
It's me again, the annoying guy
Here are 11 freedoms that the founding fathers criminalized after gaining independence
1. Non-marital sex
2. Homosexuality
3. Divorce
4. Dancing
5. Leisure (the...