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RESPONSE TO LAK Supply We had a Jewish Mafia, an Irish Mafia an Italian Mafia... immigrants in the past did not bring a corrupt culture? The fact is poverty breeds crime. Our poor people already have high crime rates. Other nation's poor people have high crime rates. The reason German...

It is interesting but controversial :banghead: In our lawsuit happy society a lady sued WalMart for selling BOTH anti-depressant medication AND a shotgun to a relative who killed herself. "They should have known better" was the argument. Terrible If we want to address a social problem...

On Voting Rights and Judicial Activism 1. Welfare recipients vote in very very low numbers, and have basically no influence on the electorate. Removing them from the electorate will have no effect. 2. Property owners with large stakes in the system already have a government structure that...

Bush may have been trying to... ...distract from himself in many ways. The war led to many anti-R votes. Bush gets rid of the "man to blame". -- Not the first timeRemember, this is the president that sent an email to an aide saying he was grateful that Brown was taking all of the flack on...

But what are the realities Please remember, the main reason why so many illegals have made it in largely has to do with the fact that many people with heavy economic interests believe that we need the immigrants. 1. They depress wages (who benefits from lower wages?) 2. They provide...

Let's see if we can predict what will happen As usual, the arguments about this will likely be: 1. Whatever we did wasn't torture 2. Since we are fighting terrorists we have to use any means necessary against "those" people. Then we will continue to broaden the definition of terrorist...

I think that ...the explanation of the community policing money being cut back makes more sense than the gun confiscation. I also suspect that a few areas (like my home city) that have had huge jumps in the violent crime rate, may be skewing the total for the nation as a whole.

I don't disagree with the importance of firearms rights to our freedoms and our history. I don't disagree that populations are often disarmed as part of efforts to subjugate and enslave them, or exterminate them. Sadly this fact remains hidden to most, particularly in the academic world...

I spent a while discussing this issue with some UN folks Most of the international attention to firearms stems from the manufacture and sale of small arms to groups in 3rd world countries. Often the efforts to sell these guns are accompanied by a great deal of political maneuvering by arms...

I think this is a victory for those who value liberties The government made up a type of prisoner so they could hold these people without the protections of being either criminals, or prisoners of war. I am sure many are evil, or followers of evil ways. However, we lose any moral...

Some of the stories run in the press All things being equal, I would rather the press run stories the government asks them not to run than giving in. It is a tradeoff, I know, but I think that is the correct choice.

insofar as evidence to my claims I was asked to provide some evidence as to my claim of 2 generations on language assimilation. I don't have the text, but studied immigrant history in graduate school about 15 years ago. That class focused on the different immigrant groups from Europe. 2...

...but one issue that isn't discussed The birthrate of white Americans is simply too low. The higher the wages the lower the birth rate. That is part of the reason we need immigrants. We simply can't import a bunch of white europeans anymore. They are having even fewer babies. In terms of...

I am actually going to argue that... the so called democratization of our economy, through the expansion of "public" ownership of stock is what has really undermined our economic efforts. Right now corporations serve a 2-tier marketplace. Shareholders and customers. CEOs and executives...

Another issue Another issue with Islamic Militancy is that it loves to "hijack" political causes just like we love to be able to portray opponents of our political and military activities as "radical" Islamism. Iraq and Palestine, for example were, for the most part, secular populations...