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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Pakistan's track record |
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 7:07 am
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Comments: 4
Views: 191
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| Pakistan is going to be in an increasingly precarious position as time goes on, especially losing ground in closing the modernizing and economical gap with India. With it closing on being the world's fourth most populous nation and having a strategic importance in almost any potential war east of Te... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Budget envy |
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:26 am
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Comments: 23
Views: 322
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| Our system works fine for us in that it prevents what's called 'a tyranny of the majority'. More or less, whoever is in the minority retains some power and some voice in our system as a 'check and balance' on the excesses of majority. While the Democrats might bitch and whine about that now, they h... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Budget envy |
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:12 pm
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Comments: 23
Views: 322
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| I think the chief issue is that no one party has been able to gain a lasting majority in Canadian federal politics for quite some time which actually makes the value of being king of the hill in an election less and less alluring. On the American side, the greatest shifts in legislative seats both i... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Weak Japan, Strong Japan |
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:49 pm
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Comments: 29
Views: 689
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| Just imagine how vulnerable Los Angeles or Vancouver would be in the face of a large tsunami. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Going, going, gone |
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:03 pm
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Comments: 18
Views: 521
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| I wouldn't say the news out of Saudi Arabia is entirely bad. The $10 billion program that the monarch put into place, which is more or less a bribe, sort of illustrates the difference between that nation and its neighbors - its people have come to expect a certain standard of living. If anything, it... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The proud Confederate legacy |
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:18 pm
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Comments: 64
Views: 1357
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| You know what? If you look at the context of the times you'd see that the anti-slavery GOP was a midwest creation and not a Yankee creation. That's because those northern industrial interests were also dependent on slave labor. You say the conflicts were predicated on the existence of a slave econo... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Wiki-shockers |
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:45 am
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Comments: 8
Views: 221
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| Actually, only about 10% of the cables were classified as secret. The rest was either day-to-day or something that was picked up on much earlier by other intelligence agencies. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Burma's general election |
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:20 pm
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Comments: 6
Views: 410
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| They finally released Aung San Suu Kyi, although she'll probably still be barred from any political role and still runs the prospect of either being arrested again or succumbing to an "accident". |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Burning bridges |
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:30 pm
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Comments: 62
Views: 766
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| Why is the belief that the Constitution is a living document necessarily flawed? Because that assertion is used to imaginitively reinterpret the Constitution into meaning whatever a particular class of judges and lawyers (mostly liberals) want it to be. That's how we came up with nonsense like the ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Burning bridges |
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:05 am
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Comments: 62
Views: 766
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| 1) Not really. A government repossession of a community center (not a mosque) that happens to have a place of worship would be a pretty quick violation of the First Amendment. And the difference, is just like the thousands of community centers funded by Christian groups that happen to have a chapel ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Burning bridges |
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:48 pm
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Comments: 62
Views: 766
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| Sounds like a state issue. The federal consitution doesn't apply there. Yes, it does. The Supreme Court just dealt with the use of eminent domain 2 years ago. Congress can defund Executive orders. That whole 'checks and balances' thing. Except Congress overturning Supreme Court decisions isn't a ch... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Burning bridges |
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:07 am
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Comments: 62
Views: 766
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| The GOP will probably not significantly defund the military and the Senate won't allow modifications to entitlements, so probably not. Maybe if they tie the two together they could take a chunk out of the budget but I won't hold my breath. There should be some fat than can be trimmed from the DOD, ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Burning bridges |
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:44 pm
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Comments: 62
Views: 766
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| The question here is what were the Republicans going to propose? Proposing tax cuts is pointless in a recession given how low the rates are for anyone under an income of $250,000. In fact, anyone making under $30,000 a year gets more or less all their income tax BACK. Trimming "pork" out o... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Burning bridges |
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:04 pm
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Comments: 62
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| What bothers me more is how deliberately vague both sides are being in terms of their solutions. While the Democrats and Obama eventually arrived at specifics over both Afghanistan and health care after a year of pointless deliberation, the Republicans have dragged their feet even further. Tax cuts ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Trick or Trick with President Karzai |
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:12 pm
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Comments: 16
Views: 243
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| I don't know that I can agree that the adoption of fundamentalist Islam was a way of trying to throw out foreign intervention. Wasn't U.S. aid against the Soviets in favor of the fundamentalism muslims what brought them to power in the first place? Beyond that, aren't Iran and Pakistan major player... |
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