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Saying that the Tsar's death was because he was anti-semitic gives credibility to the notion that Bolshevism had a large Jewish influence. Is that what you're trying to say?

An addition to a system of constitutional law does not make a country a theocracy.

Apparently they reported to the university administration which failed to take action and may even have tacitly accepted the decision of the mob (presumably because of fear of repr…

This is absolutely false. Pakistan has a system of laws that is based on the British system - it is very obviously not a theocracy. Pakistan created the Taliban out of political ne…

Here's some perspective from a Pakistani agnostic who supports blasphemy laws. This article is an example of how people in the West really don't get how religious countries in the …

We all know the answer. Saudi Arabia is the chief stabilizer of oil price (and therefore the petrodollar) in the world. Therefore, Saudi Arabia can export all the Wahabism it wants…

Thinking like that would be a mistake. The quality of immigrants that US and Europe attract are vastly different. US attracts mostly high quality skilled labor (doctors, tech worke…

I thought my reply relevant to the discussion at hand. It literally addresses the cause behind the name change.

Isn't this much ado about nothing? If not for slavery, the African American population that enjoys 1st world comforts in the USA today would be languishing in some underdeveloped A…

Watching this documentary was a really unsettling experience. The subversion of information has become so institutionalized, and common people are so accepting of it, that it is ha…

Why was (s)he so offended by it?

I know it is mean to say, a 5'7" tall man will never be President in this day and age of celebrity elections. The last 5'7" president was John Adams. The last president under 6 fee…

It is fairly obvious that he did indeed piss off "some powerful people in America". He was an anti-semite, and Jews are a very powerful group in the United States.

How on earth is it even remotely misogynistic?

What about people who have no other options? Like people in poor villages who haven't known anything else?

Social conservatism. Even if I take your point that big government can be good, one has to concede that it succeeded with social conservatism. Ever since social liberalism took hol…

There is much evidence to suggest that exactly the opposite is true: an excess of social liberalism leads to the downfall of a culture. Social conservatism means stable families, s…

What a bunch of lies. He talks as if the action against Syria is because Assad is a brutal military dictator. The reality is that the US wants Assad gone because he is an ally to R…

If that is the only reason, why isn't the US also acting against Saudi Arabia? It is a repressive monarchy. Coming to think of it, the US resembles an oligarchy more than anything …

Wait a second, that is absolutely wrong. It is not the case that Apple has paid a tax on the money it holds abroad. In many cases, with complicated tax arrangements like the double…

Ordinary people do seem to like their royalty. The endless fascination that the people of Japan have with their Emperor, the British have with their royal family, among other examp…

Can we just adopt that as a general rule? All things done with a good intention will backfire.

That's actually not true. There's great evidence for the fact that hunter-gatherer societies had a fairly good distribution of gender power. It is only with the advent of "civiliza…

Then the awful rules can be challenged in a court of law, which will act as the limiting power on the SEC. There does exist a mechanism for challenging malicious prosecution in our…

By setting up an antagonistic system, I think. A system of checks and balances in which the interests of the employees of the SEC are OPPOSED to the interests of the banks. For exa…