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The Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Sweden to men and women who have rendered the greatest service to humankind. Between 1901 and 2008, more than 750 Nobel Prizes were handed out. Of these, at least 163 are Jews. Literature * 1910 - Paul Heyse * 1927 - Henri...

Lol, funny thread. People who donated to Obama campaign seem to be perfectly happy with how he spends their money. Yet people who did not contribute a single penny to his campaign and in fact supported his opponent are the ones whining about the way Obama spends the money of his absolutely happy...

Hmm, this was never in dispute. He was on the board of Freddie Mac...in 2001... for a very short time...5 years before the housing bubble... Come again, how is that supposed to prevent him from becoming an effective Chief of Staff? LOL, dumb conspiracy losers. Three year old children have...

Emanuel was named to the Freddie Mac board by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and resigned his position when he ran for Congress in May, 2001. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6201900&page=1 LOL, nice try, loser!!!

LOL. Just because someone is angry at an idiot does not follow that he was in denial and he would eventually come to accept the idiotic views promoted by this idiot. Of course idiots and conspiracy nuts are not known to be giants of logic so they may actually seriously believe that if the...

Nah, they would not buy more planes if they had a lower tax rate. They'd buy more planes if they needed more planes, if more americans (and non-americans) needed and could afford their services and their current fleet was no longer able to handle the demand. Then and only then they would buy...

Yeah, that's too bad that a typical URM family is on welfare. That's too bad that the SAT score of the average admitted URM is about 150-200 points below the score of the average admitted white/asian applicant. That's too bad that URM (and some legacy) applicants take the spots of better...

Actually if they can't pay for it, they don't... Yale Cuts Costs for Families and Students...Families earning less than $60,000 annually will not make any contribution toward the cost of a child’s education, and families earning $60,000 to $120,000 will typically contribute from 1% to 10%...

Of course not but you understand that you are comparing apples and oranges, don't you. The average legacy applicant is also infinitely more qualified than the average URM. A real comparison would be a legacy applicant with 2000-2100 SAT score (significantly below the average for Ivy League)...

Hmm, there is no such thing as a legacy scholarship into Yale. Absolutely all scholarships awarded by the Ivy League are need-based. Legacy applicants do indeed have a [significantly] higher chance of admission to Ivy League schools but so do URMs (under-represented minorities).

Excellent post pabst, you're absolutely 100% right! We would still benefit from Universal Healthcare (it is excellent in France and it is cheaper too), better public transportation system (good for environment, traffic jams and oil prices) and perhaps free college education though. :D

I am not an Obama supporter but balancing budget and putting some money in the pockets of 95% of the taxpayers (the second half of the plan that you chose to ignore) who have been going without a raise for the last 8 years will help the economy.

Of course they would still stand. Because If Israel was never created Saddam would not have invaded Kuwait, we would not have had to have troops in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden would not have had any reason to declare war on the US. If Israel was not created they would not teach...

Please, cut this nonsense. Liberal democrats, leftists, socialists, communists etc may disagree on certain things and have somewhat different ideologies but they are united in their support of welfare and similar programs. You're splitting hairs and it's not working.

Stupidity perhaps??? No one said these morons were smart, no one said they want to be productive. Voting for Nader was counterproductive, comparing Bush to Nazi was counterproductive, screaming "free Mumia" during anti-war rallies was counter-productive... They just never learn.

All these definitions refer to basically the same group of people - a pretty large fraction of the democratic party (both grassroots and politicians) believing that welfare and similar programs should be kept and expanded. I don't understand how anyone can possibly deny that these people exist...

The ulta-leftist democratic grassroots and the liberal wing of the democratic party did not support the welfare reform. The republican/conservative grassroots would love nothing more than to get rid of welfare, affirmative actions and similar programs altogether. While their views are shared by...

I have never had a good word to say about Obama. Nevertheless you don't have to like Gore, Clinton, Kerry or Obama to recognize that GWB and Quayle are idiots, no amount of spin will change this simple fact. Calling them "dumb" is an insult to dumb people. I am not sure about Palin though...

I was not talking about politicians and I was not talking about Democrats and republicans, I specifically referred to the ultra-leftist fraction of the democratic party or liberal democrats. It's no secret that they (unlike Bill Clinton and moderate democrats) vehemently opposed the welfare reform.

No I don't know whether these are your views, I was talking about the views of liberal democrats and the fact that they were properly described in that story. Sorry if it was not obvious from the context. I actually agreed with you that the guy who posted the story lied. What I don't...