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lol - maybe you should be "outraged:" the party of "individual responsibility" cowardly trying to placate the evangelicals by wasting $1.5B in illegally-confiscated tax revenue on yet more social programs and foolish propaganda, instead of having the integrity to call for legislative action to...

Bush to Promote Marriage in $1.5 Billion Plan Wed January 14, 2004 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bush administration officials are planning a $1.5 billion election-year initiative to promote marriage, especially among low-income couples, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Administration...

LOL. that's for sure, there's no more pristine software than microsoft. all that Linux/OSS junk... worthless.

they just executed one of the most flagrant misallocations of american wealth in history, while ostensibly limiting tax revenues - what is the final tab going to be for the mess in Iraq, besides the tragic loss of life? $200B? $500B?

if you substitute "security measure" for "tax," is your argument still valid?

this has nothing to do with "free markets" - if it were a "free market" then the Indians and Chinese working for $5/hr. would just move to the US and get paid $60/hr. to do the same job. the majority of them can't, and that's the linchpin of the racket. this is not competition - competition...

:D http://www.studentsfororwell.org/

Lawsuit dropped as Oreo looks to drop the fat Wednesday, May 14, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A lawsuit seeking to ban Kraft Foods from selling Oreos to children because the chocolate-cream cookies are allegedly unhealthy will be dropped, the San Francisco lawyer who filed the...

the problem is that gaining (or asserting?) a right is orders of magnitude more difficult than losing it. as for "western allies" (aren't they enemies now?) - assuming your unproven assertion is accurate, it is still irrelevant. people are apparently stopped regularly in China and Cuba -...

right on! and you don't get more "cowboy" than kennebunkport and yale! and everyone loves those great old movies where John Wayne would strut around in a flight suit with a fake turkey, stuttering catch-phrases and soundbites, stonewalling 9-11 investigations, and taunting the evil villians...

not supporting Dean, but this is pathetic. they donated $60k to a fund to help schoolchildren? lol. comparing this to bush fundraising is like comparing jaywalking to serial murder. rove/perle better have something better up their sleeve than this... probably, it's still early in the campaign.

If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that we now have before us . . . But the suggestion that we are doing this because we want...

isn't that analogous to asking for proof of how many crimes were prevented because of the threat of criminal penalties? that there is opposition is what protects the freedoms. do you seriously doubt government's historical tendency to tyranny? why would modern times be any different...

:confused: ironic, these being posted by an unwavering supporter of the bush administration.

yes. but they insist on the illusion of a "retirement plan" system, and it hasn't reached the crisis point where politicians have cover to impose a means test and call it what it is - welfare.

that's backwards. it's not that the people should be passive and content because they have some freedoms -- but rather that the people have some freedoms because there are some who are constantly fighting.

there are parallels between this and the "war on drugs" -- huge demand overcoming threat of force, violence, waste of money and resources, etc. anyway, you're right - force and threats are not feasible solutions given the demand, size of the border, and the r/r ratio for the illegal...

sure it's a tax - soc. security is just a welfare system, ostensibly minus a means test.

of course not - the tax burden on US citizens is already staggering. it's impossible to believe that far more than the cost of the bush cuts couldn't trimmed out of the massively over-bloated fed. budget easily. that said, bush can't be left out, because the choice is not tax vs. no-tax...

thanks for the lecture - good thing there are superior people to keep the idiots in line. you present dean's ideas by comparing them to bush's - and then object on the grounds that the discussion must not include bush. lol. the idea is for people to reach their own conclusions, but here...