Tue 6 Oct, 2009 12:17 pm - [QUOTE=Arjuna;95545]You're kind of arguing that slavery was entirely an incidental issue in the Civil War. It was a mass event: which means all kinds of agendas came together. Lee was... (view)
Tue 6 Oct, 2009 11:36 am - [QUOTE=Aedes;95504]The South was the first to recruit an army, the South fired the first shots, after skirmishing in the no-man's land between Washington and Richmond for a year the South... (view)
Tue 6 Oct, 2009 11:06 am - [QUOTE=Arjuna;95501]I had assumed the British supported the Confederacy because they wanted to cement the division in North America. It hadn't occurred to me that Lincoln's apparent... (view)
Tue 6 Oct, 2009 11:00 am - [QUOTE=Aedes;95491]Washington was not exactly a fan of 'state's rights' either, of the founding fathers he was one of the most in favor of a strong central government.[/QUOTE]
I... (view)
Tue 6 Oct, 2009 10:51 am - [QUOTE=Didymos Thomas;95490]Regarding strategy: you forget that the Confederate army had, hands down, the best commanders of the war. You also forget that for the first two years, the Confederacy... (view)
Tue 6 Oct, 2009 10:00 am - [QUOTE=Aedes;95360]Lincoln was a president at war from the moment he was inaugurated. There was never a single second in his entire presidency when he had the opportunity to make peacetime policy... (view)
Fri 4 Sep, 2009 05:26 am - Kate Beckinsale
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Jennifer Connolly... (view)
Wed 2 Sep, 2009 08:05 am - Most people who discuss such issues with me probably think that I have drank the free-market kool-aid.
I do, however, believe that the market could experience failures (with healthcare, because of... (view)
Wed 2 Sep, 2009 07:55 am - [QUOTE=Aedes;87593]Because insurance companies are not interested in controlling the costs of health care. They're interested in making actuarial decisions that lead to profit. Sure,... (view)
