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Tobacco firms sue FDA over new graphic warnings
Tue Aug 16, 2011
- I like the idea of requiring fast-food restaurants to hire obese people wearing swimsuits to loiter in the restaurant as an example of where all those delicious values meals can lead you. As a bonus the bbw crowd would love it.
General: Iran-backed militants biggest Iraq threat
Tue Aug 16, 2011
- This may well be true, but I'm not sure it American's problem to resolve it. The US presence in Iraq may well be the main Iran is interested in such de-stabling adventures.
Tobacco firms sue FDA over new graphic warnings
Tue Aug 16, 2011
- Somewhere the line has to be drawn on how far the government ought to go to protect us from ourselves. I hope the tobacco lawyers win this one, this is on the other side of that line.
Police called in to NY-23 polling stations because of voter intimidation by teabaggers!
Tue Nov 3, 2009
- I realize this is comment 400 and few if anyone will read down this far, but I feel compelled to post nonetheless. Political supporters do this stuff - they position themselves at the edge of the polling place where there are legally allowed to assemble and make a commotion about their cause.
Want Ammo In California? You Are Now Required Give Your Thumbprints To Police To Buy Ammo
Mon Oct 12, 2009
- I take the idea to be that law-abiding gun owners can sacrifice some privacy so that gun crimes will be reduced.
McCain’s Fiscal Mantra Becomes Less Is More
Sat Jan 26, 2008
- Please explain how reducing spending cutting taxes is welfare for the wealthy. The government needs revenue in the form of taxes to operate. By decreasing government operation, i.e. cutting programs, the revenue needed is less and taxes could be reduced without an effect on the deficit.
Marijuana Is Number One Cash Crop In U.S.
Wed Dec 26, 2007
- Not that I have anything against marijuana, but I have to challenge the "biggest cash crop" claim. 2007 USDA Corn Production Figure = 13.1 Billion Bushels December corn deliver price = $4.20 a Bushel* the price is appropriate So 2007 corn value is $55.02 Billion, > $35 Billion
Bush Welcomes Gore to Oval Office
Mon Nov 26, 2007
- Its too bad he didn't hit the buffets before the 2000 election. Folks like a politician they can feel superior to in some way or another, as such Bush appealed in multiple ways.
Fidel Castro Dead Announcement at 4pm
Fri Aug 24, 2007
- In order to to calculate the likelihood that this story is accurate, multiply the likelihood of each of the following statements together:

What Might this Strange Caucus Business Be?

Tue Jan 3, 2012 10:25 PM EST

I live in Iowa, and I am a Republican, and just went to a caucus. For the curious among you, it might be helpful to document a typical caucus experience. The party's pick places for the caucuses to be held and voters get sent to the caucus location based on the geographic p …

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iowa, politics, republicans, 2012, caucuses

GM Pays Back Loan?

Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:18 PM EDT

A few days ago, the CEO of GM announced that GM had "repaid it's government loans, in full, with interest, five years ahead of schedule".

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Immigration can be Solved for $1

Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:40 PM EDT

Congress has headed back home until fall. This summer's efforts to solve the immigration dilemma are now clearly over. 12 million undocumented workers now reside within US borders, and hundreds of thousands more will cross that line to the South every year.

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us, congress, immigration, politics, immigration-policy

The Republicans Have Lost the Classical Liberals

Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:19 PM EST

Very soon stunned Republican politicians will find they have lost this election dramatically. They will have no one to blame but themselves. They have abandoned a core component of their party. The abandonment was slow, but sure, and it is now complete.

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election, politics, republicans, classical-liberal

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