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IanFraigun
I am a lifelong social liberal and fiscal conseravtive. I will retire soon and do part time University teaching which will continue after I retire from the business world. Most of all I like to give all a chance to change my mind with their comments if well constructed. Nothing I hate more than someone so dogmatic they cannot see any possible other opinions but their own.
Member Since: August 11, 2006
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Supreme Court says individuals have right to own guns
Politics – The Supreme Court said on Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
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Child Rapists Can't Be Executed, Supreme Court Rules
News – The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that executing a Louisiana child rapist would be unconstitutional, concluding capital punishment is reserved for murderers.
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Appeals Court Rules for Guantanamo Detainee
News – A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant.
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John Yoo, Totalitarian
Politics – Yoo believes that the Constitution and liberty rank below "the nation's security." "The advancing age of several justices" means that President McCain can give us more judges like Roberts and Alito who will make certain that mere civil liberties don't get in the way of arbitrary executive power justified by national security.
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Gored: Obama could win vote, lose election
Politics – Eight years after Al Gore's bitter pill, observers warn that Obama could face his own case of the popular-vote-winners blues.
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Obama rebukes McCain camp on terrorism criticism
Politics – A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the U.S. safer, a sharp rebuke to John McCain's aides who said the Democrat had a naive, Sept. 10 mind-set toward terrorism.
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A Landmark Day in California as Same-Sex Marriages Begin to Take Hold
Gay & Lesbian – With a series of simple "I dos," gay couples across California inaugurated the state's court-approved and potentially short-lived legalization of same-sex marriage on Monday, the first of what is expected to be a crush of such unions in coming weeks.
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Supreme Court Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts
Politics – The Supreme Court has ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts.
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Voting for Commander in Chief
Politics – It would be hard to design a better test for the job of commander in chief than the real-life test senators John McCain and Barack Obama have undergone in the last two years.
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Obama, the Dukakis Trap, and Meeting Sistani
Politics – Obama is pallnning a trip to Iraq this summer. I fear he has been forced into this visit by John McCain, who keeps taunting him on his limited foreign policy experience, saying he has not been to Iraq since 2006 and so does not understand how the "surge" was "victorious."
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Clinton May Appeal National Party's Delegate Decision
Politics – Aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton say she may appeal yesterday's decision by the Democratic National Committee to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida with half-votes.
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Bob Dole's scathing letter to Scott McClellan
Politics – Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a "miserable creature" who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck.
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Huge Variation Between US Cities' Carbon Footprints
Science – The Brookings Institute has released a new 80-page report detailing the carbon footprints of the residents of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.
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Marine removed from duty over Bible coin reports
News – A U.S. Marine in Iraq has been removed from duty amid complaints that he was handing out coins with Bible verses at an American checkpoint, the military said Thursday.
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Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'
Politics – The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.
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