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    Because the rate of decline might be faster in those states even if they are still higher at present.  We…
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    • You're missing the time variable.  Even if gun violence can be correlated to gun ownership levels or to lack of…
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    • The gas flare problem is not just because of a lack of pipelines and the workers and material in the…
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    • No, but someone would sue the lifeguard and his employer, and win a very big compensation, if someone in the…
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    • The constitutional argument is ridiculous.  There are many more laws on the books that never get implemented or enforced for…
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    • The interesting part of this story is that the "Vatican" in this case is really an American Cardinal who appears…
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    • I can't help feeling that this was much more of a defeat for organized labor than for the Democratic party.…
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    • My mistake. WP not NYT.
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    • Oops, my bad. I meant the WP story.
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    • Good point.  I wouldn't presume that non-payment of taxes is equally distributed, just like legislated tax policy isn't equally distributed…
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    • That's the big mystery.  What's stopping them from doing what countries normally do in that circumstance? (Or like American counties…
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    • That NYT story may be the most devastating character profile of major political candidate that I've ever read. People should…
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    • This is true, but it's actually a a naive way of looking at the problem.  A low tax collection rate…
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    • Hispanic voters do, and they're an increasingly large voting bloc that can be organized, and is organizing itself, largely around…
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    • There is no real evidence that border control as you're speaking of it has occurred.  Just that net immigration has…
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    • Fair enough.  I also do not share the ambition, but given that we do live in such a world (for…
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    • I don't know who Peter Singer is, but which part of the quotes you cite do you disagree with, or…
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    • Just assume that I have a PhD level of education in both religion and governance and am familiar with all…
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    • Then explain what you think it is because it sounds pretty much like the definition of moral to me.
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    • I don't see where the UCCCB ever advertises itself as "independent."  It says pretty clearly that it is a fundamentally…
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