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Its mainly because many of us have spent the better part of the week disregarding her as an airheaded bimbo, that her making coherent arguments and at the least holding her ground in this debate is a ...

I think Palin did extremely well. I think the defining characteristic of her during the debate was likability, must have played extremely well with her base and right leaning independents. Her argumen ...

But the point is the current crisis has little to do with resource depletion, but for the marginal effect it has had on high oil prices squeezing consumer margins.

We would have probably had this c ...

Competance and hard work have to be recognized and rewarded or society will stagnate. Most people would also have a strong incentive to slack off.

But I do like the idea of a reasonable amount of e ...

Market Socialism!!!!

not corporate socialism....er you know what I mean Embarassed

I still admire some things about America. If they draw the right lessons from this, they might recover in time.

I dont believe it; come on, the Pakistani army lives off US handouts; they'd never have the guts.
On the other hand if they do decide to confront the US, they might lob a few nukes at India before go ...

Pakistani FM: The U.S. May Not Carry Out Military Operations in Pakistan
1 Aug 2008--In the past few years, Taliban militants have been using Pakistan's tribal districts as a base for attacks on the ...

The ratio of debt to GDP for the US is still considerably less than several other major economies of the world. The absolute numbers seem so huge precisely because the US economy is so huge.

I also ...

I think it can be said that the political elites of the USA are in general aggrement on the 'important' issues, such as American hegemony, militarism, fiscal ill discipline, and Corporatism.

But on ...

Yes, I am starting to see Republicans and Democrats not so much as political parties, but rather two , ever diverging cultures within the same country.

Yes, but who administers the exam? Evil or Very Mad

The electoral commission Razz

There has to be a feedback and some form of accountability the rulers must face, to prevent a descent into absolute tyranny; which most people would agree is almost always far far worse than a democra ...

Why is there never an NDP-Liberal coalition (both left of center parties) instead of a minority Conservative government?

I suspect for many it is a moral issue, any interference of the government in the redistribution of wealth is immoral in the least, if not outright evil. While subsidies controlled my special interest ...