Tue 5 Jan, 2010 02:38 pm - [QUOTE=salima;117150]ok, the nigerian was a black man...why dont you profile all black men just to make sure they are not muslims? none of this makes very much sense to me. profiling is... (view)
Mon 4 Jan, 2010 02:40 am - [COLOR=black]I see this problem as a matter of risk and cost assessment. We must assess (a) the benefits to be derived from anti-terrorist measures that impose on our constitutional rights and (b)... (view)
Tue 15 Dec, 2009 03:28 pm - [QUOTE=Deckard;111523]Regardless what the Nobel committee says awarding the prize to Obama was a tactical move intended to influence his future actions. (Well, that's what I think anyway.)... (view)
Tue 15 Dec, 2009 09:33 am - [QUOTE=josh0335;111509]American Presidents before Obama had the power to start wars and convince the population to jump on-board by decree. There's no reason why the reverse cannot be true. It... (view)
Sun 13 Dec, 2009 04:49 pm - I just joined this discussion and must say it's refreshing to find a political discussion group as grown up and civil as you folks.
I think the Salon's ideas of the steps necessary to... (view)
Fri 11 Dec, 2009 07:53 pm - [QUOTE=Zetetic11235;110350]That sentence is self refuting...consider the statement "It is a fact that nothing is absolute" which carries, in this context, the same meaning as: "It is... (view)
Fri 11 Dec, 2009 02:59 pm - [QUOTE=Deckard;110077]How about this?
The degree to which a person is a terrorist is directly proportional to the percentage of the global population that this person considers expendable as... (view)
Fri 27 Nov, 2009 03:44 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;105959]I really don't know what it means to say that whatever we know is relative and not absolute, so I'll just pass on that. But there are, it seems to me some things... (view)
Wed 25 Nov, 2009 06:58 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;105889]You mean that we should give them nuclear bombs, and missiles to deliver them? By the way, why did you place quotes around the word, [I]enemies[/I]? You don't think... (view)
