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Can Israel Survive Without a Palestine? - Room for Debate
Abbas and Netanyahu are at a stalemate on the statehood issue. Wouldn't Israel be better off with a viable Palestine?Almost certainly they would not.Do a one state solution.Deal fairly with the Palestinians but deal with them. -
Nathan Fawkes
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Obama Is Missing
“#Obama Is Missing - http://nyti.ms/eHbjya by Krugman at #NYT”The semester is starting. The Euro is collapsing. We are heading into a second down leg. Professor Krugman can neglect the public for a few days.
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Tribal Sovereignty vs. Racial Justice - Room for Debate
Was the Cherokee Nation's expulsion of black Freedmen an act of tribal sovereignty or of racial discrimination? Yes.They must resolve their internal fight. -
Fabrizio Bartolomucci
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Snow Leopard Takes a Page From the App Store Playbook
Count me as one of those that will most probably buy the $ (or Euro given the standard conversion practice) 49 upgrade and that would have been totally happy with his current version, if it costed 130...I own no Apple equipment. It is very fashionable but costly and short lived.
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The primary race has not formed up on the Democratic side.
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The Euro Widened the Culture Gap - Room for Debate
What the sinking euro tells us about the divide between 'Club Med' and Protestant Northern Europe.
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The Euro Widens the Culture Gap
Josef Joffe, editor of Die Zeit
"Culture doesn’t matter, Karl Marx orated; it is the “substructure,” the economy, that determines how society arranges its way of life. The tottering euro proves this great thinker wrong once more."
His attempts to fight with the dead will raise his blood pressure.
Marx was right on this.
A most recommended comment.
Reading that the rest of Europe is culturally inferior to and unsuitable for pairing with Germany should make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, as it does mine. If we're talking cultural impulses, there are worse things than profligacy.
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Humane Housing for the Mentally Ill
I would recommend caution.
Some need a closed environment.
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Wjy the Freedmen Fight - Room for Debate
As a sovereign state, the Cherokee Nation has a right to be wrong. But why exercise it, when the wrong can be avoided?This is a manifestation of an internal dispute. Let the tribe work it out.The freedmen should sue. -
Making Laws About Making Babies - Room for Debate
In America, one sperm donor can have 150 or more offspring. Other nations would not allow this. Should the U.S. emulate their stricter laws? There are already more than enough rules.-
Start With Some Hard Questions
Robert G. Brzyski, American Society for Reproductive Medicine ethics committee
". . . that the government plays a role already, through the F.D.A. guidelines for infectious disease prevention. This system incorporates both screening of donors (via questionnaires) and testing of donations."
It is her choice.
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