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In today's world, I'd wager the point that if you are black, times are easier for you than a white boy.
are you fucking serious

Like most things, "easier" can be relative.

That said, as a group, black African immigrants to the U.S. do much better than native blacks economically. This is true ...

No free speech violation occurred here. The mayors of Chicago and Boston are jockeying for votes, nothing more. That said, it's clearly an unconstitutional abuse of power, and serves to show how corruptible government can be when they have too much control over certain aspects of society.

The main ...

I think it's a major difference.

I've always heard or read this topic along the lines of "Gingrich served divorce papers to his wife who was dying of cancer." This has been repeated over and over and still is. The connotation displayed here is that he's clearly evil, and looks to be if accurate ...

I'm not sure how you take my factual correction to a story that I seem to read everywhere as someone making him a perfect human being.

There's a vast difference between the correct version (which happens every day tragically, but that's human nature), and what has been repeated over and over again ...

and are you also glossing over the moral character of Newt "I left my first wife in the chemo ward for a younger hotter employee" Gingrich?

Not that any candidate is an angelic beacon of moral perfection, but I'm pretty sure this statement has been refuted by his daughter and by others. She didn ...

Cain's deficiencies with his presidential run aren't about the accusations (same as Clinton's, and he proved you can win with them), they're about his clear lack of knowledge about anything except running a business. This is obvious to anyone who has watched the debates, or the Libya question, or ...

Any chart that tries to tie debt to a president is inherently biased.

There are far more intricacies to every single one of those debt/presidencies than what the chart is trying to pass off, without mentioning the branch that passes budgets.

Ending the war on drugs and elimination of the death penalty are two of the main points that make clear sense and can be done with ease.

War on drugs should be repealed from a moral perspective, with a secondary economic benefit.

Death penalty abolition (except in extreme cases, e.g., Osama bin ...

the guy who said "people taking money from freddie mac should go to jail" while he was taking money from freddie mac?

Fairly big difference in taking money as a private citizen consultant (which is done routinely), and taking money as a legislator/executive who then crafts legislation giving the ...

Most of them are beyond frightening.

His Libya gaffe and foreign policy debate performance hurt him far more than the accusations of harassment which Clinton showed you can easily win with.

These charges are eerily similar to those Bill Clinton dealt with almost 20 years ago.

You have every right to defend yourself in that situation.

But yes, a push off, or a stiff jab if required afterward would be all that's needed against a crazed woman while you call the police.

The man should be charged and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.

The women should be charged and convicted of assault, and unable to sue.

Tariffs are never a good idea...

I disagree that a union in concept is the problem.

The problem is, just as any sufficiently large business and government can become corrupt, so can unions. In addition, you can argue unions are more apt to become corrupt than their business counterparts, and just as likely as government. This is ...

It's interesting to note that both Britain and Australia are surrounded by... ocean. It's far easier to control a banned item from entering your country when the only entry points are shipyards and airports. Even then, smuggling and corruption are there, but on the whole it's easier to enforce the ...

The eminent domain case decision was 5 to 4, with O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas dissenting. That's the ruling that allowed corporations to essentially trump your property rights.

Also, term limits for Congress needs to be a constitutional amendment, and it's only made it to an actual vote ...

It's very simple: We have a right to life. Proper health care is an essential component to living life, and for that matter, pursuing happiness. Before you start quibbling, remember that the rights given in the constitution are interpreted broadly. (Remember, the right to abortion, which is viewed ...

Bad parenting is a legitimate reason. I just don't understand how education funding correlates with that. And it's clear that more funding, when the U.S. is already the world-leader in education funding, will not solve the problem.

This is why a complete overhaul of the system is necessary. And ...

Not sure how it is around the country, but I suppose it's similar. In the town I grew up in, the salaries for school employees:

I think you have to go 1,000 or so people in before you get down to people making 50k.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbc ... 5531275747

Programs are cut because the educational bureaucracy (non-teachers) demand more and more of the operating budget each year. The actual money spent on education is not cut, it continues to rise, and is far more than any other country on Earth.

The question remains: Since the U.S. spends more than ...

Continue cutting funding to the public schools and then bitch when they suck. Brilliant.

Per-pupil spending on education in the U.S. since 1930

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Of course listing by pupil ...

All his hits were written for him.

That was the quote I objected to. You mention two of the songs on Off The Wall (it was actually 3, he also wrote Get On the Floor, but that wasn't a big hit) The two he did were two of the biggest hits of the album, Don't Stop Till You Get Enough, and Workin ...

Michael was already a megastar before his collaboration with Quincy. When they combined, his career hit a never-before-seen level. Also I don't think the fact that his post-Quincy music wasn't as popular, diminishes his earlier work, or guarantees that the real magic was Quincy. Quincy also produced ...