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    Booman - in our pluralist society I think that it's important that institutions, including religious institutions, protect their interests and…
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    • Booman - I really like this post, and we need to get Citizens United overturned.  The most realistic way to…
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    • Ron Paul is not popular, but he is popular among Iowa and New Hampshire Republicans.  If Paul wins Iowa, he…
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    • Both Krugman and Klein are partly right.  Klein is right when he talks about how difficult the situation was and…
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    • BooMan - I don't think we can win in a landslide unless the GOP puts up some loon like Sarah…
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    • Steven - I agree with your agenda here, but the way you've talked about it isn't convincing anyone who doesn't…
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    • BooMan - I think you're thinking about this wrong.  I'm not a big fan of nuclear energy.  But, understand that…
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    • @dataguy - you are totally right.  I used to do high-level disaster preparedness work.  This earthquake is simply off the…
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    • Joe Sestak is a friend of mine - I used to work for him in the Pentagon, which was a…
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    • Booman - you should read up on the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The Act states that the oil company…
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    • I agree that some people are just diehard racists/homophobes/Muslim-haters.  We'll never get those votes.  The Tea Party is never going…
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    • Booman- I think you're missing the point here.  The "low-education white vote" is likely the part of the electorate that…
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    • We really need to pass it all, for both electoral and policy reasons.   The big lesson of HCR and…
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    • I'm pretty results oriented - given what we see here we should take a MUCH harder look at CBC members'…
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    • Crist would move left as a DEM.  Most folks who switch parties vote differently - 538.com did a study on…
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    • Didn't Specter cosponsor Webb's bill to study the US justice system?   http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/a_push_for_prison_reform.php I think Specter is a good choice…
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    • As someone stated in an earlier comment, slavery explains why the South is different from the rest of the country.…
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    • This is clearly true.  But, we will do a lot of good passing the small-bore bills we wanted to pass…
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    • Have you seen the other candidates?!  The Republican is so bad that Raising Kaine called him "Taliban Bob".  "Taliban Bob"…
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    • I think that's a good summary - progressives have a greater belief in the rights of the individual versus the…
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