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The 82nd Airborne has long held the honor of being the first responders (along with the Marines) to any American crisis requiring a military solution. However, since our military is stretched so thin in Iraq they are no longer capable of responding to anything: As evidence of this...

A few nights ago I was at a small dinner party, and one of the guests arrived with a very pronounced limp. She told us that the day before, she slipped down a few stairs and jammed her foot on something. The whole thing sounded rather painful, and the aforementioned limp showed that she was...

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48 now the article trails on and goes off topic, it also makes alot of claims that may be very false, but i want to know if this part is true and if it is true would it really be something that couldnt be overidden?

I have been watching the performance of our elected officials for some time now. It is becoming grossly obvious to me that they will compromise anything, even the security of our country, in order to get elected. Whist some may argue, it seems pretty clear to me that the Republicans have an...

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For those who believe this to be the case, the world is in a tragic state. It is corrupted and possibly beyond repair. It is therefore not particularly difficult to identify the problems of the world, to project our own meaning on them, and to suggest solutions. However, the solutions we...

From the 11th US circuit: "We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War of Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over," the court said in its ruling. "Sept. 11, 2001, already a day of immeasurable tragedy, cannot be the day liberty perished...

The events of the last couple of years have raised this issue, at least in my mind, but I've never seen any extended discussion of it anywhere. What are the limits of the protections afforded by the US Constitution? This Jose Padilla guy, an American citizen, was picked up in the US, for...

There is a general misconception that scientific observations are the last word on reality. That is not so. Scientific observations are bounded by the senses and can only record sense impressions. Such observations and conclusions can only guarantee certainty within the parameters of the...

I'm not sure if you guys caught this other day but the president laid a wreath at the tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of the coming holiday. Outside, a protest swelled with people from various activist groups (including the Sierra club which mystified me). Usually one doesn't get...