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Congress isn't really the point, though - the Patriot Act would have been much harder to get through (and certainly harder to rush through the way they did) had 9/11 ...

The Soviet Union was a much different matter, however: it didn't so much fall as retreat in upon itself. Even right at the death, there was too much to lose ...

"In the United States of America, during the 1980s there was an upsurge in the old belief of "Satanic ritual abuse". Hundreds of thousands Americans, including Protestant Christians, feared that ...

Well, uh, personally I disliked some of the hatred against various racial groups a bit more, but that's just me... I think the same way about Harry Potter, but don't ...

Aye, true enough - when everything's run from one central office with no accountability structure in place, who is there to look over your shoulder? Only history, and that never ...

True enough - people, *please* try not to post if you have nothing useful to add to the debate. We don't want to hear "I believe this. End of story." ...

Sanctions would certainly seem to be the way to go: after all, it means that there's no real enemy to attack, since the entire world is participating, and the country ...

I think perhaps the comparison goes a little further - to the suspicious mind (like Elvis!), parallels could lead to a massive US governmental plot to give themselves extra powers ...

If she wins, it becomes my mission to eradicate American culture. It just can't be allowed to continue.

Yeah... it would be nice, but I'm not sure that (1) the US is capable of such a feat and that (2) NK would actually have to back down in ...

here is your new link . The rational behind 'you can't have them but we can' is 'we're stable enough to be responsible about it, you're not.' That's not to ...

I don't know about that - much the same was said of Africa, which now has the fastest growing Christian population in the world, and not just pseudo-Christianity, either, the ...

Don't get what? She's teaching English so she has money; she's working with a church to promote knowledge of and relationship with Christ to those that she's capable of reaching. ...

No, it was more the refusing to address the evidence at hand, rather making a loosely related claim to deflect from the actual argument. I dont believe in god, I ...

You can measure the force of gravity- acceleration at 32 feet per second per second, until terminal velocity has been reached. Once again, the only way we have of knowing ...