Recent content by JAlli41

Many people do not support liberal policies for many reasons. The vast majority of established governments in history have been illiberal and mostly well supported because what they exchange in freedom they receive in stability. The US is actually an anomoly in human history for being for...

The article doesn't claim that one can become smarter by suddenly becoming an atheist. The point of the article is that people with higher IQ's tend to not be so bogged down with traditional norms and some with higher IQ's even prefer to be different from the bell-curve on these issues. Also...

The opposite of non-interventionism is not neo-conservatism. it would just be interventionism. Neo-conservatism is more about America's place in the world, how important Israel is to American interests, and a few other things. There are plenty of interventionists who could not be classified...

Olberman asks people to disprove it... But you can't disprove a negative. He must first prove all of the hyperbole, before his opposition can prove him wrong. This is why using this kind of slander is so effective, how do you prove you are not a rascist, sexist, anti-semite, ect? Whether it...

First point, no we have no evidence. We have reports. But, they are being reported by some pretty good sources (I know you will all name 5,000 things the NYT, ect. have gotten wrong...). Second point, you're right, I was speaking from a strictly American point of view, forgive me for not...

Yeah, I don't see how this is a false flag event. First, no Americans are dead, so not a lot of people are going to rally around this. Second, this is the normal way things work historically. Countries fight for the control of natural resources. It's one of the reasons there was a North...

Actually, while his message (especially on economics) isn't resonating with you guys as much as you'd like, it will resonate better with the general public. Take Rand Paul for instance, Rand has not been so vocal about the fed as his dad was and he's doing very well. That being said, I'm...

Some of you guys are nuts... I had swine flu last weekend and it wasnt fun, I had a fever, flu-like symptoms and a bad cough that was made worse by my athsma. It wasnt anything more than a normal flu, but it sucked nonetheless. I did't get a flu shot and wasnt prescribed anything (well an...

This history is actually exactly what I was referring to as being debated. I found the paper I am refering to, called "Why the United States Dropped the Atomic Bomb" by Gar Alperovitz. Which was published in Technology Review Aug/Sep 1990 issue. The paper is copywritten and a PDF so I can't...

There is now very good circumstantial evidence (I dont have it in front of me as I am at work), that Japan had been sending out peace feelers the summer of 1945 without response from he Truman Administration. After Germany had been defeated Russia took a few months off before agreeing to invade...

Communism, to be fair, has never really existed as it implies people living mutually on a "commune." What we have seen are socialist states, authoritarian styled "people's republics ect. The real problem is that Marx was an economic critic, he never really painted a picture of how he thought a...

I bet anything this actually will encourage more people to do what he did. I do worry about what the government reaction will be to all this is this becomes a trend... All in all the gentleman did nothing wrong.

You guys seem to be forgetting one thing. Inevitability. The reason Ron Paul never got support, is that everyone kept saying "you have no support." This time around if we make it seem like, well Peter Shiff got the housing bubble right. He new about the economic crisis before it happenned...

one of the things that worries me about this video, and this movement in general, is the continued use of the phrases "freedom," and "liberty." We have to become vigilant as a movement and not allow these phrases to become meaningless buzzwords. Part of taking power means that mainstream type...

yeah, did the first word of the title have to be "Jew?" As if Jews aren't individuals unto themselves? I doubt you meant it is a derrogatory way, but I also dont think you would have begun the title "Irish Catholic...", or "Protestant Georgian..."