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    I agree with this 100%. In a post above I was trying to get to one reason this might be…
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    • to my nonscholarly eyes, America only has one other speaker/writer with the gravity of King: Lincoln.I think you must be…
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    • The statement was "Barely one in five Americans knows how to read past a first grade level..."  This survey shows…
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    • Gang of Four (This is edgy...20+ years later) Time with my girl I spent it well I had to be…
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    • My excuse--I'm recovering from a cold & not thinking on all cylinders.   The real difference was how far the…
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    • I think there's a big difference between a Christian, whether as an elected official or candidate, or as a member…
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    • It's worked so well in other countries.  Look at Europe's history--whenever people thought God was on their side, and that…
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    • Blaming Agee for the deaths of CIA agents is a longstanding canard of the right. An interesting perspective is provided…
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    • The CIA actually was an intelligence agency under Truman. He turned down the idea of engineering a coup against Mosaddeq.…
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    • Marxism is hardly an unreflective philosophy. Besides, Marx himself said, "I am not a Marxist."   More to the point,…
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    • I'm wondering if what we're seeing in Simpson's remarks isn't indicative of an inherent problem with religion--the perpetuation of an…
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    • I think there are good sociological reasons for hostility to religion--particularly Christianity--on the internet, which have relatively little to do…
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    • Job security may be a big factor, but there are plenty of conformist pressures far short of that.  The press…
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    • On the first anniversary of 9/11, there were "feel pieces" everywhere. USA Today was the exception. They wrote a groundbreaking…
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    • What a wonderully AMERICAN thing for them to do!  Thoreau would be so proud!
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    • Though I have to say that Colin Powell has never impressed me morally, so I wasn't the least bit surprised…
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    • I'm not interested in being morally superior. I'm interested in reaching people who don't already agree with me.  I think…
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    • After 9-11, FAIR almost immediately documented the degree to which militarism drowned our any thought of alternatives. Their action alert,…
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    • Of course everyone says their time is different.  But just because many people lie does not mean it never was…
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    • Windsurfing wasn't the problem. Kerry is a veteran. Bush--notwithstanding all his protestations--is not. Kerry should simply have spent a lot…
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