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Commented on SAME we can believe in
@mdh Additionally... * by sending 13k more troops to Afghanistan in March, and increasing the daily death toll 3x, he is also showing us the folly of war. * by giving our tax money to failing banks and car companies,...
Commented on Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
A quick correction: "after taking money from American taxpayers, [Goldman Sachs] earn huge profits as if the credit crunch never happened" Um, I can't recall someone from Goldman Sachs taking money from me, a taxpayer. What I do know (and...
Commented on Ex-drug czar John Walters made a fool on CNN
I'm thrilled that the Democratic President and the Democratic Congress have decided to legalize marijuana! This day was a long time coming, but it was certainly worth the effort to oust all those evil Republicans standing in the way of...
Commented on The Economist Gets Something Right
Are we missing the point here? Whether or not you can make a valid case for either class of investors as the senior creditors doesn't really matter. The point of the post as I understood it is that this is...
Commented on New York Times warns that new financial rules could "wreak havoc" -- 1999
Faustus -- not everyone in power at the time lacked foresight -- just the ones who yell the loudest. You may not like Ron Paul, but show me a single politician who nailed the impending crisis better than him. Ron...
Commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
Please note that while Radley Balko does occasionally write pieces for FoxNews.com, he is primarily a senior editor for the libertarian magazine, Reason, concentrating on civil liberties issues that ought to find wide appeal on BoingBoing. He has a great...

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TEKNA2007 commented on SAME we can believe in
"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." Ahem. Someone needs to reread his own inaugural address. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address/...
nezzyidy commented on SAME we can believe in
I agree with a couple comments on here which point out that the release of those pictures will not cause the loss of more American lives. The people in the middle east already know that we have done these things. These photos are being censored from the view of the American public....
Ernst Gruengast commented on SAME we can believe in
Really? Maybe that's what Bush the constitutionalist was all along too - just invoking unitary executive powers to provoke the judiciary to put him in his place? Except they didn't. Sometimes hope is blind....
pt68 commented on SAME we can believe in
So, just as a thought exercise . . . what SHOULD the government have the power to suppress? And under what circumstances? And not from an ideological standpoint. Look at it from the needs of practical governing. I'm honestly curious about peoples' perspectives on this....
Apashiol commented on SAME we can believe in
pt68, Your question is difficult to answer in a comment, but just governments should protect the rights of their citizens, not hide their crimes. That includes the crimes of it's politicians and military. It should not suppress dissent and seek to immunize itself from all criticism. If it is to have any moral standing it has to at least not break its own and international laws it has undertaken to uphold. It has to be accountable when it does break those laws. Not try to wheedle its way out out of responsibity under cover of 'national security'. If not then...

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