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Acts of terrorism should be investigated, prosecuted and punished as criminal offenses

The naming it a “War on Terror” creates a problem

Is this the best we can do?

What the future has in store.

A child will miss her prom. Happy?

The consistency of the Rabid (and nutty) Right

The Obama agenda: healthcare - II

The Obama agenda: healthcare - I

Dual systems of values and laws

Florida voters approve Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage

Moving ahead

Conservative movement splits and unravels

A paucity of ideas

A note that, if read, will be ignored.

The government we deserve.

Puffery, slanting or intentional lies – through a political prism.

Senator McCain’s campaign – unbelievable.

I “know” why Conservatives dislike Senator Obama; why do they support Senator McCain.

Elian Gonzalez in back in the news -- after over eight years

Ann Coulter – Redux.

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I want to explain my absence from these pages, in the midst of the on-going abortion debate with SLB and while very exciting political issues surround us.

About 10 days ago, I was exceptionally careless and tripped over a threshold into our home. The result: A broken knee cap, a stay in a rehab center (with limited internet access), little patience to read and an anticipated 6 or 8 weeks of therapy

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Polemic . . . meh

June 16th 2009 02:17

The problem:

When ever things get boring around the blog-on-o-sphere and locally in Orbland, a post about gay marriage leftovers, abortion rights for male surrogates, aborting gay fetuses or gay Christian fetuses converting to Islam is usually good for a fight

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The debate has run its course

June 11th 2009 17:35

I posted the following comment earlier today. It appears that both parties have expressed their respective viewpoints.

There are no winners or losers here. But I would appreciate the Orble community's reactions

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Pro-life hate speech has consequences

June 7th 2009 18:06

Within the past weeks, two murders took place. In Little Rock, Arkansas, William Long was killed outside of an Army recruiting office, allegedly by an American convert to Islam, 23 year old Abdulhakim Muhammad. Mr. Muhammad reportedly said that the shooting was a general and vague “war protest” and police initially have reported that the shooter had acted alone.

While it may end up otherwise, the killing of Private Long does not appear to be part of a group religious conspiracy but rather the act of a deranged criminal. Nonetheless, the killing was inexcusable and the murderer needs to be punished in accordance with the law

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Enough about the President's religion

June 3rd 2009 14:15

I really am not certain of the significance of the far Right’s, Fox’s and a few others’ fixation on the President’s faith. Normally, we take a person’s word on the specific Deity to whom one chooses to pray or even the absence of such a Deity.

Certainly, many of President Obama’s critics, including those at this site who cannot even bear to write his name (now, that’s hatred!) claim to be members of the Clergy and Christian; I take them at their word. If the President says that he is a Christian that ends the irrelevant question. This does not mean that I agree with all of the tenets of that faith, and I do not. But the issue of his being Christian is settled

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Obama Haters Unite

June 1st 2009 01:02

Have any of you heard about David Icke? Click on his name and hang on tight, the guy will take you for an impassioned ride.
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The upcoming clash of points of view

May 29th 2009 19:50

I am posting this to let the 7 people in the world who, if they do not actually agree totally with me on all issues, political, economic and social, are at least prepared to hear me out.

Starting next week, SL and I will be engaged in a debate-discussion. Damo is going to moderate and keep us honest

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Acts of terrorism should be investigated, prosecuted and punished as criminal offenses

May 25th 2009 15:28

In a previous post, I suggested that the way to best challenge and defeat terrorists would be to use well established and experienced civilian law enforcement agencies to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and, if appropriate, punish and incarcerate those convicted through the regular judicial system.

Almost ten years ago, the United States General Accounting Office published a report studying the manner in which Canada, France, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom addressed the issues. Certainly, no one can doubt that the United Kingdom has had years of terrorist acts by the I.R.A. and Israel has been under the threat of imminent attacks from the day it was established

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The naming it a “War on Terror” creates a problem

May 25th 2009 15:21

Several years ago, I wrote of our proclivity to use the term “war” when we really mean focusing our resources to address a societal problem. Thus we have had a “war on poverty”, a “war against drugs”, a “war against inflation” and others. These are not real wars in the conventional sense; no one seriously expects to totally eradicate drugs or poverty, for example but there is no real harm in using the term.

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A more formal greeting

May 22nd 2009 18:06

The preceding piece was written by Nevar who is going to post occasional material to this site. I welcomed him in a comment appended to his article but I think that the occasion deserves special attention.

My comment was

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