This is an unusual choice for someone with presidential ambitions. Normally a politician use the power of his/her current job to extract large donations from companies and rich people.

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You have a point, but would the posts have worked if it was about meaningless issues?

I suspect that it is only a passionately held belief that would cause someone to question the validity of their logic in supporting (or at least not opposing) this mutilation in the name of cultural diversity. However, I have made my point, and will not be posting additional comments in the same theme.

My agenda? I am shocked and horrified by mutilation of female genitilia. I don't think that we should be celebrating this particular cultural difference. In fact I am a little surprised that so many people seem to think this is okay.

To continue with a theme, The USA has a culture of war.

The USA was founded in the fires of the American Revolution.

The Manifest Destiny of the USA was achieved by defeating the Native American Indians.

The States of the USA were unified by the 'civil' war.

In WW1 and WW2, the USA acquired a dominant position of power in the World, via war.

With victory in the Cold War the US became the only super power.

It is clear that the USA has a culture of war. Thus we must celebrate the many wars the USA has been in recently as a part of our love of diverse and unique cultures. How can America's war in Iraq and Afghanistan be wrong, if it is our culture that drives us to fight?

America is a Christian culture. Why do so many judge and attack the christian culture in America which denies homosexuals the right to marriage?

After all having a Christian culture in America is just a part of the diverse cultures of the world, and we should all be celebrating the American culture which does not allow for homosexual marriage.

We live in a multicultural world. Who are we to harshly judge this culture of another society. We should be celebrating our differences.

I have been fortunate to date ladies with a variety of skin, hair, and eye colors.

Based upon my statistically insignificant sample, culture matters much more than color.

Basically, dating a white female from the big city is far more like dating a black female from the big city, than dating a white female from a rural area.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsCC0LZxkY

This is one of the best arguments in favor of legalization that I have heard.

What would be the point of developing a weapon to kill Mexicans?

I could understand someone targeting Whites, or Arabs, or Chinese, since these are the major world conflicts now and for the near future.

Eh, let the Europeans and the UN deal with the Somali pirates. The US is already busy being the world police in other places.

Rather than having the US government spend money to protect those ships, we should just let them buy their own defensive military equipment, or rely upon the support of other Navies.

I gave up on this topic part way through page three.

I am totally confused by the discussion. When I first heard about the tea party protests, it was in an article by a conservative. The basic gist of the discussion was that a bunch of people unhappy with the proposed tax increases and the out of control spending were going to protest.

I assumed that it was conservative or libertarian groups leading the protests. Was someone claiming that conservatives and libertarians were not the ones complaining about taxes?

I took a mage to max level, and one short of warlord PvP rank before the first expansion, but all that PvP ruined the game for me.

One of the greatest things about the Constitution is the ability to change it as needed, by super majority votes. Amendments giving all humans full rights no matter the color of their skin are a great example of how an Amendment can improve upon the Constitution.

The problem that so many conservatives have with the liberal ideas about a 'Living Constitution', is giving Judges on the Supreme Court the right to change the Constitution to their personal preferences without requiring an Amendment. Conservatives also are frequently disappointed when the Federal Government seizes powers that are not given to the Federal Government without passing a Constitutional Amendment.

The Constitution is not perfect, but I have not seen a better way to maximize the freedom of the people. Furthermore, Americans would be much better off if the Constitutional limitations on Federal Government power were more completely enforced.

It is common sense because it is a religious belief that you happen to agree with.

Just out of curiosity, where do you think morality comes from?

In theory the Federal Reserve exists to help smooth out the business cycle. In theory raising interest rates during boom times slows the rate of growth, and lowering interest rates in bad times, helps increase economic growth.

If the Federal Reserve had perfect information, and developed economic theory far enough, then it could use its control over the money supply to avoid depressions, while only having a mild negative effect during economic booms. This theory also requires that corruption is kept to a minimum, or does not exist.

Just as communism sounds great in theory, but doesn't work in practice, monetary economics look great on paper, but don't work so well in the real world.

Thou shalt not kill is a religious teaching. To ban all religion from government means this little rule can not be a law.

That is why saying things like religion should be banned from government is not a good idea.

All morality is based upon religious beliefs. That different people adhere to different beliefs does not change this fact.

If you do not use peoples moral beliefs to write laws, then why should it be illegal to kill people?

There are Christian Big Government Liberals who want to use the power of the Federal Government to impose their Christian beliefs. There are also Anti Christian Big Government Liberals who want to use the power of the Federal Government to attack Christians.

The wonderful thing about limiting the power of the Federal Government, is that neither side can subjugate the other side. That is why I agree with Ron Paul, that we should not have such a dominate imposing Federal Government.

The reason why I refer to Christians who want to use the Federal Government to impose their beliefs, as Big Government Liberals, is because it is the left leaning liberal philosophy which supports Federal government power, while conservatives, and to a greater extent libertarians oppose giving the Federal government the power to decide people's religion.