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Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Does the war on terror threaten civil liberties in the US?: 4 of 34
The War on Terror certainly threatens American's civil liberties. Now while some Americans will state that its perfectly acceptable to sign away our rights in the name of security. However, those Americans are forgetting what one of our Founding Fathers said "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary... More..
Religion & Spirituality > New Age (Other) Essay: Hitler and the New Age: 1 of 6
Many historians ignore or gloss over the issue of Occultism in the Third Reich. Hitler was in fact a master of the black arts. Were one to review World War Two they would begin to uncover information pointing to a much sinister reason than just world control. Just after World War One there was a rise in Occultic thinking and ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues The Patriot Act: Invasion of privacy: 4 of 16
September 11, 2001 was a day when many things changed in the American way of life. For the first time in our history there was a large scale terrorist attack that succeeded with implausible accuracy. The only attack in American history that comes close to the 9/11 attacks is Pearl Harbor. However, without digressing to much t... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US News Reflections: Affirmative action for equality or for lowered standards?: 2 of 7
Affirmative action is nothing more than reverse racism. White people in America are being discriminated against however, if any white person says so they are labelled a racist. Colleges offer ethnic scholarships, jobs offer employment to minorities who aren't as well qualified as whites and whites are often passed over for pr... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Is the US becoming a fascist state?: 8 of 25
America certainly is a fascist state. The government has stripped away our Constitutional rights with ever increasing regularity since 9/11. American citizens are now subject to wiretapping, search and seizure, detainment without access to a lawyer and freedom of speech is a thing of the past. Our troops are engaged in two fo... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Homeland Security Perspectives on 9/11: The politics of culture, the culture of politics: 12 of 37
September the eleventh, 2001 was a day that altered American history forever. One must investigate the events with an open mind and they will be surprised by what they find. The attacks were not meant to be an attack on our freedom. It was an attack on our foreign policy. It is true that many people died but they were killed ... More..
Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes What is death metal?: 3 of 9
Death metal is musically often louder and heavier sounding than any other form of metal. The lyrics are often growled or screamed. However, in the past decade or so death metal has been attacked by censors for its focus on death, necrophilia, violence and many other taboo subjects. However, the music has maintained its popula... More..
Sciences > Genetics The genetics of intelligence and race: Nobel Prize winner James Watson sets back race relations: 8 of 22
James Watson said nothing wrong. He was merely expressing an opinion. Yes, his comments were insensitive to race but thats his opinion. Sadly, now Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are going to lynch this man. Watson is an amazing scientist and a Nobel Prize winner. He is as much entitled to an opinion as anyone else. However, it... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Assessing US support of Israel: 17 of 43
The US supports Israel for no other reason than guilt. Thats right I said guilt. The Jews weren't allowed into America during the 1930's and 1940's while they were being exterminated by the millions. Yet, within a decade they had their own country and were and still are recieving billions of dollars a year from our government... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Should we tolerate hate speech?: 17 of 43
All speech should be tolerated. There is no such thing as hate speech. That is a term used by specific organizations to discredit someone because they may have said the N-word. Seriously, I don't even know why I have to argue this. All speech is protected with the exception of terroristic threats in other words threatening ha... More..