Trying to find intelligent discourse in politics is harder than understanding the derivative exposure in your 401k money market fund. The proliferation of news channels, talk radio, blogs, and twitters have served to obscure rather than illuminate; close rather than

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The danger posed when the rights and liberties of the opposition are assaulted, is that oppositions change and that assault will eventually be applied to you. The same is true when political power is bestowed disproportionately to the party in

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Conservatives push energy independence through more energy production including drilling and nuclear. Liberals push alternative fuels such as biomass, solar and wind. While carbon reduction is the primary goal, energy independence is a close secondary goal. While such noble objectives