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//It seems that BMW will be sending 500 electric Mini Coopers to California sometime in the near future.  To the untrained ear, this sounds promising and exciting… it’s about time that we start accepting the use of clean energy (which we can get from water power, wind power, solar power, or nuclear power) in our […]

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//Obama has been carrying as much as 90% of the black vote in many states.  It’s no secret that many people vote for him solely because of the color of his skin (of course, there are probably just as many people who won’t vote for him because of the color of his skin).  And they […]

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//Everybody occasionally feels depressed. Relationships… school… work… family… there is a plethora of reasons. You may be overwhelmed with more tasks than you have time for… or you may be struggling with a core belief in your basic life philosophy… or you may be upset because no way exists for you to get 7 hours […]

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//Most Americans believe what they see on TV, and rightfully so. The following statements are true and the media loves to remind us that they’re true:

Palestinian “freedom fighters” occasionally kill Israelis (they ignore the fact that Israelis kill Palestinian civilians more often than Palestinians kill Israeli civilians).
Pakistanis often riot when the US’s favorite political party […]

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//Two hundred and thirty-two years ago today, Thomas Jefferson announced the Americans’ future right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  But people often forget the next part of the Declaration of Independence, where he states “that to preserve these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of […]

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//Welcome to the 68th edition of Carnival of the Liberals! It was very difficult to choose a reasonable number of articles from the many submissions that I received, but I think I managed to cut it down to the point where it’s not overcrowded.
I also included some comments about each article. I’ll have […]

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//People often talk about how they prefer “natural” cures or “natural” foods or other things of a “natural” nature. I’m not one of those people.  I don’t deny the value of preserving the environment… but as far as the difference between eating “organic beef” (I won’t even bring up the fact that all beef […]

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//This is just a reminder that Globally Rational will be hosting the July 2 edition of Carnival of the Liberals, a fortnightly event which showcases the best recent articles by liberal bloggers.  The deadline for submitting an article is midnight CST on July 2, so get your submissions in ASAP!
Here are some relevant links:
Submission page
Carnival […]

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//This is another in my set of “Sunday Rewinds”, where I re-post one of my favorite articles that I wrote back when nobody was reading. FYI, the status of North Korea has changed a little bit since I first wrote the article.
Wikipedia defines “terrorism” as “violence against civilians to achieve political or ideological objectives […]

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//“Democracy” is a popular buzzword here in the US.  Everybody assumes that if a country is “democratic”, they are also automatically “free”.  While I don’t oppose the idea of freedom and liberty, I don’t think that they should be naturally associated with the word “democracy”.
In America, democracy and freedom both showed up at the same […]

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