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"Jesus people, never has a comment thread better demonstrated that the perfect is the enemy of the good. Stevis sounds like a decent guy, willing to listen, with some genuine progressive ideas. His opponent is a conservative dinosaur - creationist,..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by jasonhong, Drop Daedalus, anildash, six-or-six-thirty, By The Grace of God, robds, chiababe, DevilsAdvocate, spec80, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, grubi, picea, schyler523, orthogonality, nightchrome, suedehead, djeo, Optimus Chyme, sachinag, aeschenkarnos, amethysts, Symeon, tzikeh
3 days ago
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"As a general rule of thumb, the later in the week that the FDIC takes over a failed bank, the less severe the crises is (well, as non-severe as a bank failure can be). The FDIC likes to use the weekend to consolidate control of a bank's operations,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Malor
13 days ago
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"After D-Day, Adolph Hitler ordered Dietrich von Choltitz, the commander of German forces in the city, to burn Paris to the ground before letting it fall into Allied hands. He refused, and offered no resistance to the Allies as they re-took the city,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
2 months ago
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"A thumb drive or a DVR (if you think he'll use it). I never once used the Black's Law Dictionary I purchased my 1L year. I think the most bang for your buck would be to get him Gilbert or Emmanuel's outlines in the topics he's going to be studying..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the christopher hundreds
2 months ago
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"I don't think a lot of people truly grasp how important the 14th Amendment has been to the development of modern civil rights in the US. Pretty much every major US Supreme Court case that involved the establishment of some constitutional right or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
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"Mister_A: Seeing as how neither pedestrians nor bikes are allowed on interstate highways, I'm not sure why the new I-35 bridge should set space aside for them...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, speedo
11 months ago
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"Mister_A: Given the speeds at which people travel on interstate highways, it is not a simple task to safely segregate foot and pedestrian traffic from highway traffic. And, the expense of doing so seems wasteful given that there is a pedestrian (and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by uri
11 months ago
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"If you should somehow find yourself in the unfortunate position of being in Boston whilst craving BBQ, you have only two choices:
1) Blue Ribbon BBQ - 'que straight from the Carolinas and DAMN good to boot (and I say this as a pure-bred Texan BBQ..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zaphod
Last year
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"From what I know of him, he was a man of upstanding personal integrity and honor - a true southern gentleman. He was neither a sadist like Stonewall Jackson (it seems he truly abhorred war, rather than gloried in it) nor a militant racist like..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by KingoftheWhales, vronsky, marxchivist
Last year
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"This is actually a huge dissapointment, because civil unions are fundamentally inferior to recognized marriage. Remember, the NJ Supreme Court came within one vote of mandating same-sex marriages, instead of leaving this issue up to the legislature...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by arcticwoman, effwerd
Last year
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"This decision will make for VERY interesting debates in the NJ Legislature in the near future. New Jersey has the potential to be the tipping point in the status of single-sex marriage in the United States.
The biggest fear of conservatives has..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last year
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"(The following assumes you're in the US)
Your legal obligation, I think, is nil. This is primarily because a) you don't know for a fact that your confidant is telling the truth; b) because you haven't found the body (many states have laws..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oats, KingoftheWhales
Last year
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"Advanced medical technology has masked a tremendous rise in violent crime by being able to save more and more seriously wounded people from death. This has the effect of transforming murders into mere aggravated assaults on police statistics...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by beth
Last year
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"[i]It's clearly a violation of Full Faith and Credit except that some states have already passed laws saying they won't honor it if it's gay marriages.[/i]
Actually, its not clear that DOMA would violate the FF&C clause of the Constitution...." [
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Two years ago
