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By Petrarch | Feb 5, 2008 |
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Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians. But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?
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By Petrarch | Jan 24, 2008 |
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George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.
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By Petrarch | Jan 23, 2008 |
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Anyone who thinks there is anything Americans cannot or will not do has lost faith in the American people, and is unfit to lead them.
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By Demosthenes | Jan 21, 2008 |
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In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?
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By Petrarch | Jan 18, 2008 |
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The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 14, 2008 |
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Scientists want research grants, more published papers, and to be listened to by the general public. Bureaucrats want a bigger department and more clout. Politicians want a crisis - any crisis - so they can ride to power with a "solution".
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 11, 2008 |
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Sure, global warming seems unlikely; but if it's true, it's so awful, shouldn't we take action just in case?
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 10, 2008 |
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The ocean levels are not going to rise by 20 feet by 2100. According to the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, it's more like a single foot, or maybe 18 inches.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 9, 2008 |
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Government proposals to fix global warming won't work, at great expense.
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By Petrarch | Jan 8, 2008 |
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A computer can only do what it's told, or programmed, to do - it can't force people to do anything, unless they allow it to do so.