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It's probably worth noting that just or not, the casualties of modern wars are now 95% civilian on average. It's…
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Time for a new ally? Fuck yes. We have paid far, far too dearly for the thankless task of supporting…
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I'm beginning to think we need to start trying to get our representatives to sign pledges not to pursue bipartisanship.…
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Seriously. Ten years ago, I'd have thought this was pure paranoia. Now? It's painfully obvious. How many fingers am I…
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"I'm opposed to this kind of freedom. We don't want the freedom they want. Ahmadinejad is a courageous president. There…
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I've heard about enough regarding the Iranian nuclear threat. How many nuclear arms races have we seen since WW2 now?…
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I'm more than a little skeptical about the idea of Obama-as-chessmaster meme that keeps floating around. He is definitely subtle,…
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If I was Obama -- and the world can probably be thankful that I am not, at least most of…
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This is illustrative in some way of a propensity I've observed in Republicans over the past couple of decades but…
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It's not just brown people. Given the woeful lack of supplies given to our own troops in Iraq, I think…
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I think that would be the worst possible thing we could do, our own recent checkered election history aside. American…
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Will the IDF be busing Fatah fighters from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip to conduct the Palestinian civil…
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There's a considerably less flattering term that applies to those two, though I decline to use it. The GOP has…
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It could be that this is just a legacy of 60's pacifism. It's not as if we don't have plenty…
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Well, to be fair, she is eighteen and while, yes, that does make her a legal adult in the United…
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Let's try this again. The instructions were: Do a lot of [insert group here] need to do better? Almost certainly.…
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Don't get all defensive - I said I wasn't particularly picking on you.  I'm picking on ALL of you. This…
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To be quite honest, I have begun to wonder whether we should follow the lead of the some of the…
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Up to a point, sure, that's absolutely true. In Letterman's case, however, I don't think that what he said would…
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If there is racially related commentary that dwells on the way that a person looks or uses his or her…
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