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Dear friends, re: Ukrainian Navy flagship takes Russia’s side Published time: March 01, 2014 21:11 Ukrainian military resigning en masse in Crimea Published time: March 02, 2014 09:27 It didn't and they aren't. Neither are: 1) refugees from "fascist, anti-semitic extremism" streaming over ...

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But the numbers you've presented are also instructive, though the speak to a different set of issues. Mostly economic, I would argue, though other theories could be presented. Crime, poverty, education, and race all overlap in a Gordian knot of developmental issues in the US. For the most part, I a...

That's precisely the measurements used in creating these statistics. I posted a link to relevant statistics about prosecution/imprisonment for marijuana possession in the marijuana thread, and the papers have been full of stats for "stand your ground" and self defense justifications for h...

Except that there are quantifiable differences in the way that defendants of different races are treated by the courts. Its not some airy-fairy opinion, its measurable that non-whites are more likely to be charged, and if charged more likely to be convicted, and in convicted receive on-average long...

Explain to me how this man is black [pic: Benjamin Jealous] and this man is white [pic: George Zimmerman] Inasmuch as "black" and "white" are values on the visible spectrum — I, for one, can't. When I saw Benjamin Jealous' face appear on television in the aftermath of the verdic...

It's a little curious, but not surprising that identity — even as far as race is concerned — has become relatively fluid in the 21st-century. The other night I encountered a news story about a Great Lakes native band vying for recognition by Congress. Half seemed to have borrowed the garb of Plains ...

What privilege does brown skin get you in America? Apparently, at least in one of the above instances, the privilege of heading an organization with Total Assets in 2011 of $13,932,117 and $33,377,277 in Support and Revenue — $19,852,400 of which arrived in the form of Grants and Contributions — $8...

con•fu•sion |kənˈfyoō zh ən| noun 1 lack of understanding; uncertainty : there seems to be some confusion about which system does what | he cleared up the confusion over the party's policy. • a situation of panic; a breakdown of order : the shaken survivors retreated in confusion . • a disorderly j...

Thanks, gents.

Typhoon — odd as it may seem, the option to stay logged-in check box doesn't appear on my browser. The only toggle there is "to log on automatically".

I'll opt to prep anything lengthy first in a text editor.

Greetings, Typhoon. Many thanks. I may be a slow typist: twice now, while compiling a post and doing a little research in the background, I've finished composing a reply — and found that after I click "submit" I'm required to log in again — and whatever it is I've just finished writing is ...

. US-backed militants behead 2 Christians including priest in Homs The reports I'm reading in Russian are that one of those killed was a Syrian bishop — the other is identified as the bishop's acolyte: deacapitated by fighters using a short army knife. "There is no official confirmation of thi...