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15 years ago @ Big Government - Carbon Nation · 11 replies · -9 points

Neither can oil, which is heavily subsidized.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Would Obama Have Suppo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Nice. What type of records are you looking for? Neither institution contests that he was there. Did people ask for this much paperwork from The Decider?

15 years ago @ Big Government - Would Obama Have Suppo... · 1 reply · +1 points

OK. Finally something concrete. I've heard a theory that Obama is little more than an unknowing pawn being manipulated by smarter people behind him, much like The Decider from Texas. It's ok if some people have that theory, but I just don't see it. It seems like Beck more often than not is grasping at straws.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Would Obama Have Suppo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Ha. What is there to prove? Both institutions acknowledge that he was there; at Harvard as a student and at Chicago as a lecturer. Where exactly is the uncertainty?

15 years ago @ Big Government - Would Obama Have Suppo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh I didn't say I thought he was all that. But to assume that a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, the home of Milton Friedman conservatism, hasn't read the Constitution is just asinine.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Would Obama Have Suppo... · 8 replies · -14 points

LOL. Regardless of whether or not you believe he follows it, Obama studied constitutional law at arguably the finest law institution in the country in Harvard and he was a lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago for years. He is more familiar with the document than 99.99% of the United States.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Shame on CNN: Spitzer ... · 1 reply · -1 points

Putting Eliot Spitzer on TV is definitely very stupid, but I also have problems with Fox putting on convicted felons Oliver North and Gordon Liddy. I agree that Geraldo Rivera is tough to watch.

15 years ago @ Big Government - The Haunting Slave Chi... · 1 reply · +1 points

It's Lapt. I don't think you've proven anything. I suppose we should just agree to disagree. If anything is pushing and keeping African Americans in poverty I'd say it has more to do with structural racism that exists throughout our society and appears in everything from underfunded urban school districts after white flight (Jonathan Kozol writes beautifully about this) to banks that push African Americans toward more expensive, riskier mortgage loans even when all socioeconomic factors are equal (Wells Fargo was accused of this recently in Baltimore). Most people don't see it (particularly whites, which is logical because it doesn't negatively affect them) or care to do anything about it.

15 years ago @ Big Government - The Haunting Slave Chi... · 3 replies · +1 points

Right, but that's disingenuous since African Americans are much more likely to fall below the poverty line than whites. The situation has actually become even more unequal since this was written twenty years ago.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,...

15 years ago @ Big Government - The Haunting Slave Chi... · 5 replies · -1 points

Multiple studies have shown for years that the majority of welfare recipients are white.

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