Saturday, October 6th, 2007
In regards to the story where some U.S. vet cut down the flags where the Mexican flag was flown above the American one in Reno: Did anyone simply ask the business owner to change the flag order before someone sent camera crews and everyone got all hysterical? Maybe go over ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Michael Turton makes an excellent point: Why is it that the United States will rebuke Taiwan for supposedly violating the status quo between them and China by asserting their sovereignty with things I would consider entirely peaceful - i.e. requesting Taiwan be admitted into the United Nations or the World ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
I see that Bush has been critical of Attorney General Gonzales' scandal around the intent to mass-fire attorneys across the board for political reasons. But I'm going to defend Gonzales a bit here and say: Wasn't he just following orders from the White House? It seems unlikely that he'd just ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
In Oregon's Jackson County, 15 library branches are set to close due to lack of funding. How is this possible in modern America, where a county cannot afford to keep any of their libraries open?
I am a huge proponent of libraries in general, and specifically the American public library systems ...
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
The Wikipedia entry on Republicanism in the United States states:
Republicanism is the political value system that dominates American political thought since the American Revolution. It stresses liberty and rights as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects aristocracy and inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent ...
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