In what kind of police state would you find that a purchaser would need governmental permission to buy something from a willing seller?
In this one.
Of course, it’s all about corporations leveraging the power of the state to coerce their rivals. If you are someone who is against corporate power, you should be against government […]

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Says Ahmedinehjad :
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.
“In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don’t know who has told you that we have it,” he said.
Of course they don’t. If they knew of any, they would […]

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This is so fucked, I can’t even explain how pissed it makes me.
It’s a website where cops rat out other cops for giving them tickets. They admit to breaking the law, but think they should be let go out of “professional courtesy”. I was blind with rage after reading just a few of […]

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This is a very interesting paper explaining why people are susceptible to harmful memes like cults that would seem to be an evolutionary disadvantage. The author was recently released from jail for criticizing Scientology.
In the aggregate, memes constitute human culture. Most are useful. But a whole class of memes (cults, ideologies, etc.) have […]

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John Edwards on mandatory preventative medical care :
“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 […]

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When the internet allows freedom of speech to come into contact with honor based cultures, bad things can happen. Luckily, funny things can happen too.
In my opinion, the monks and the ninjas could both be defeated by a properly trained group of robot pirates, so the question is moot.

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Castro picks Hillary.
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.
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“The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate,” he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on […]

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