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• Has Obama’s ‘let’s talk’ approach worked with US adversaries? A report card...

  Fri Dec 23, 2011
  • It's cute how you think there are options other than winging it in the world of geopolitics. Foreign relations form a massively complex system with hundreds of individual operators who can, in one sentence, completely upend all plans you might have made.

• Has Obama’s ‘let’s talk’ approach worked with US adversaries? A report card...

  Fri Dec 23, 2011
  • If you think that Obama - who has, let's remember, initiated one major military action in the Middle East and escalated another - would simply ignore an act of war in the region then you're just being willfully thick.

• Has Obama’s ‘let’s talk’ approach worked with US adversaries? A report card...

  Fri Dec 23, 2011
  • Do you ever worry, LiberalLies, that your fondness for giving people and things mocking nicknames gets in the way of anyone understanding what the heck you're saying?

• Has Obama’s ‘let’s talk’ approach worked with US adversaries? A report card...

  Fri Dec 23, 2011
  • And how, exactly, would you prefer to handle China?

• Has Obama’s ‘let’s talk’ approach worked with US adversaries? A report card...

  Fri Dec 23, 2011
  • This is rather a pathetic article. Even among the five countries listed there are two clear-cut successes - Myanmar has made huge strides in civil liberties, and if Syria is one of our "five top adversaries" then surely the near imminent collapse of its government has to be taken as a good thing.

• Child rape suspect allowed to watch porn in jail

  Wed Jul 13, 2011
  • The fact that he hasn't been convicted of anything yet, just accused? I mean, he certainly sounds guilty, but trials matter.

• Child rape suspect allowed to watch porn in jail

  Wed Jul 13, 2011
  • Change the law? What, so people acting as their own attorneys don't have access to the evidence being used against them? It's a sickening consequence, but let's not forget how important the underlying principle is.

• Donovan vs. Beckham sparking Cup interest

  Sat Dec 5, 2009
  • Fascinating. I was unaware that Fabio Capello had decided to bring Beckham, who is an aging midfielder who faces steep competition for his preferred position on the right side of midfield from Aaron Lennon and Theo Walcott, both of whom Capello prefers in that position to Beckham, to South Africa.

• AP IMPACT: Govt pays for deadly, unapproved drugs

  Sun Nov 23, 2008
  • The problem here is that this squeezes out drugs that are no longer under any patent, and widely available in generic forms. As it's not profitable to go through a lengthy review on such drugs, many of them are simply dropping off the market instead of getting approved.

• Dr. Paul Offit: Debunking the Vaccine-Autism Link | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com

  Sun Oct 26, 2008
  • I'm curious, what do you think is still to be uncovered about this? There's no evidence linking vaccines to autism, and there never has been. What's left to establish?