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the ethical sale of crystal meth

Erik Kain January 21, 2009
While I’m largely of the same mind as Freddie on the subject of drug legalization, which may...
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Civilization is a responsibility.

Freddie January 21, 2009
Reflecting on Israel, ED Kain writes Note when Foukara mentions that the only country Al-Jazeera has never...
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Multipolarity and Middle East

Chris Dierkes January 21, 2009
Scott’s intriguing counterintuitive post got me thinking.  He thinks Obama should hold off on diving into a...
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The Filter of War

Erik Kain January 21, 2009
Freddie writes: While I continue to believe that our national conversation is far from an equitable or...
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re:ratiocination: mexican drug insurgency edition

Freddie January 20, 2009
C. Augustin Dierkes post on the Mexican drug war to me highlighted one of the many downsides...
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ratiocination: mexican drug insurgency edition

Chris Dierkes January 20, 2009
My namesake, the great detective C. Auguste Dupin, who was himself an extraordinary gentlemen (I a member...
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our changing media and the future for Israel

Freddie January 20, 2009
Although I richly deserve a reputation as something of a polemicist, I’d like to think that I...
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