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    The drug war is largely responsible for creating a vast underground economy, including widespread smuggling and money-laundering systems, which make…
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    • That's about driving while intoxicated. And millions of people do that with perfectly legal drugs. So it really has nothing…
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    • The values that the GOP excels at are the values of advertising, self-promotion, and flattery. Or as the old Hollywood…
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    • They don't use their heads, anyway. Next!
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    • If Joe Lieberman didn't exist, we wouldn't have to invent him. We'd already have Joe Biden. Both spend the vast…
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    • What, are you crazy? We've got to save all our money for Halliburton, and to pick up the slack when…
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    • Hey, this is old news. It was blogged about a month or two ago. What have you been doing, popping…
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    • The only thing I think you missed is the part about watching Oprah!, Doctor Phil and Desparate Housewives.
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    • This is an ancient and long-standing situation. The Democrats have long been a diverse coalition, sensitive to splitting. The GOP…
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    • On the issues, the American people are liberals. Even among self-described conservatives (the people, not politicians, not movement activists, but…
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    • This is absolutely true:I appreciate your comment, but I think you're focusing only on "leave the party" while I plainly…
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    • The criticisms here are quite on target, but the solution? It sounds like our own variation on precisely what we're…
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    • Patriotism was originally identified with republican government, because it was believed that only people who had an active role in…
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    • Well, 9/11 certainly intensified people's authoritarian atttiudes, which are generally fed by fundamentalist churches.  That's certainly true. But that sort…
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    • It's sometimes very hard to untangle misunderstandings online. I really had no idea if I was clarifying things for you,…
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    • They're a figment of the punditocracy. Pundits never talk about anything real if they can possibly avoid it, and so…
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    • She's gotta go through all this grief to get to the bottom of the secrets she cares about, but you've…
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    • The economic underpinings are certainly very important, every bit as important as you say. But it's also important to note…
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    • I'm having a very hard time seeing how this:...his main point appears unassailable: a profound anti-urban bias has severely limited…
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    • Why is this happening?  I think it is a combination of the effects of 11 September 2001 and the use…
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