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A moratorium would be insufficient, merely putting off til later what eventually would happen anyway and hindering economic recovery (which…
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I think you're giving the Tea Party too much credit, and the opportunist leaders behind the supposedly spontaneous movement too…
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As I cited in a comment to dataguy, this is the paper that I was thinking of in my original…
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Here's the key paper that has changed thinking on this subject. Unlike previous work which found the expected correlation between…
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Interesting story, but it's kind of put out there without any explicit context or argument around it, so that makes…
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Actually, your claim is just not correct here about inconsistency among stem cell research opponents. The same people who are…
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Of what importance in all of this are double standards?  You speak as if you thought double standards were extraordinary…
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I agree, Israel should fear war with Iran, but unfortunately it is not Israel making decisions today but rather an…
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The imperialists in the Pentagon and the State Department -- those of the new world order meme, generally realists who…
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On its face, you're describing a very weak response that would likely be interpreted by most nations as Iranian unprovoked…
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And they did condemn us for Dubya, and it was hard to disagree with them.  It doesn't mean it's right,…
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That's exactly right, but nonetheless it provides a compelling, even if mistaken, reason for many people to underestimate them.
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This might be one reason.
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That's just not a compelling enough reason.  First of all, Israel has never had a problem violating its neighbors airspace…
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But you forget that as long as the US doesn't engage it any action itself it doesn't matter what the…
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If Iran truly has the capability of destroying Israeli cities now, as opposed to just a few errant bombs falling…
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If Israel attacks Iran, and the US doesn't engage Iran in offensive military actions, Obama loses nothing and possibly gains…
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It is insane, I agree. And that's why our current national leadership wouldn't do anything like that ourselves. But it…
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Maybe, but that doesn't mean that it is something that the administration needs to feel compelled to get out in…
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It's hard to ignore the realpolitik implications for the Obama administration in Goldberg's thesis. (And President Obama, like Saul Alinsky…
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