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Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism How the US can be made safer from terrorist attacks

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Several people have given their opinions on what the U.S. can do to make itself safer from terrorist attacks. We need to identify what terrorism is, how it operates, what the conditions are for its perpetuation, and how the underlying causes can be treated. Terrorism can roughly be considered an attempt at verbal, symbolic, ... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Democratic Leaders Commentary: Why Al Gore might be the answer for the Dems in 2008

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Al Gore has a couple of advantages for the Presidency. For one, he was against the war in Iraq from the start, a position he shares with Ron Paul, Barack Obama, and Dennis Kucinich. Unfortunately, with the exception of Obama, not one of those names is a front-runner for the Presidency. Even Obama trails far behind Hillary on... More..

Politics, News & Issues > War in Iraq What are the objectives of the insurgents in Iraq?

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What freedom fighters of various stripes wish to gain in Iraq should be obvious. Everything. In most human history, concepts like nationalism had little appeal. Most loyalty was to individuals, to people of the same religion, or to people of the same tribal and ethnic background. This was obvious in places like Somalia and C... More..

Politics, News & Issues > US News Reflections: Current use of Strauss's argumentum ad Hitlerum fallacy

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The philosopher Leo Strauss saw in 1950 that a new form of a logical fallacy was going to be used, the argumentum ad Hitlerum. The fallacy is that if something is like Hitler or what the Nazis did, it must be evil. Three debatably smart people both used the same fallacy within weeks of each other, so I feel a need to address... More..

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