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What about you, do you like 'em cut?

Unfortunately their unhealthy lifestyles are being offset by their forced breeding programs.

They should be able to save for their retirement on $12/hr! Leaches! And out-of-pocket health insurance! Parasites!

Because driving a bus and retiring with a modicum of security is UNACCEPTABLE!

The only way to attenuate the incentives to rent-seeking behavior is to divest the government of it's ability make and enforce laws. As we still need it to do so, it makes more sense to limit those concentrated rent-seeking actors' access to state power.

Yes, I imagine most of the electorate is likely to be just as eloquent in addressing the question when they're not being force-fed talking points.

All the "bipartisan" budget talk is cute and all but... Where are they going to come from?

Jains!

Oh well, as the run-up to the financial crisis showed they have American's best interests in mind...

I like how bond traders and ratings agencies have essentially taken our Republic hostage.

Billcoe will be talking about this movie for days!

It's satire.

I understand that admission will include a coloring book so that parents can follow along.

It's going to be as good or better than The Passion of the Christ.

WRONG! America is so ready for this... [video:youtube]

It's weird how, depending on what works for a particular argument, you'll conflate Islamists with all Muslims in one post and make the clear distinction in another. In one, Islam is at it's core a "cult of death" and that it's followers are hardwired for violence. In another, you quote Muslim moderates and state a desire for a Muslim civilization free from religious tyranny. Are you confused? If the first set of propositions are true, then you are committed to what is essentially a religious war to wipe out Islam and Muslim identity. If it's the latter then you're tasked with investigating the historical roots of particular Islamist movements and supporting the means to arrest their growth. Make up your mind and stop playing both sides of the fence.

In Italy, the women have the right to be HOT. Nothing more.

Yes, what about it Kojak?

No guarantee they'd stay open, tolerant, secular is there? I mean, they could start taking the Bible seriously too!

Apparently your buddy is far more concerned about the "sociohistorical complexities" and material roots of radicalism than you are...

Why is this argument that simply reduces religious violence to what people read in ancient texts so compelling? It's certainly not one that's emphasized by the same folks when discussing the relationship between hyper-violent video games, television and movies, gangsta rap and death metal, etc to gun violence. What exactly is the risk of exploring the complex history and contemporary political landscapes of the mideast to account for the rise of Islamist militancy? Why do the same people who thunderously assert the interconnectedness of global markets and geopolitics just as vehemently argue for a hermetically sealed, "endogenous" growth of political Islam? Who benefits from a narrative that suggests that colonial domination followed by cold war skullduggery and realpolitik, clientelism, unconditional support for a apartheid-state, invasion and occupation, etc. is really just a less important "bum roll of arthe dice"? The answer unfortunately is quite simple: those who have been and continue to be served by the status quo and don't want anything to change. The fact that the cries of "caliphate!", etc. here have only grown more shrill since uprisings adopting the language of secular democracy, jobs, and rights have taken root there suggest that the arguments have nothing whatever to do with "getting to the bottom" of what makes suicide bombers tick and even less about upholding our values. At this point in time, in the context of what's happened in the last month when Muslims are rejecting political oppression and speaking to material issues like jobs, Sam Harris' arguments simply look like outdated apologies more suited to 2002 than now. It's time to re-evaluate our historical role vis a vis the "Muslim world" and try our damnedest not to repeat the same mistakes. Resurrecting a discredited "clash of civiliztions" narrative from the neocon era and condemning all of Islam as a "cult of death" is a guaranteed non-starter with those moderate Muslims and secularists trying to make a break with the past.

It's Greece on the Tigris!!