Barack Obama is the best major political candidate to lead the United States starting in 2009.
Barack Obama is has the strongest judgment, leadership ability, integrity, and overall character of any major candidate currently being considered for the Presidency in 2008. These qualities make him the candidate Americans should choose to lead our country from January 2009-January 2013....
Implementing Universal Health Care is a Bad Idea
Our current health care system is messed up, but UHC is not the solution. A universal health care system would destroy the incentives of patients and doctors to try and lower prices. A UHC system would cause unnecessary corruption, and bureaucracy at the taxpayer's expense. A UHC system greatly reduces a patient's ability to choose their doctor. There is no evidence to suggest that UHC lowers medical prices, and most European nations with these systems merely transfer the costs to taxpayers....
Should we,the U.S. supply health disease survalience services to Africa for African Typanosomiasis?
African trypanisomiasis is killing 66,000 people annually in africa, without a strongg , government, eventually they will be swipped away by thise bug that can be eradicated...
The Republican party can win if if goes back to the reason for it's original success
The Republican party was formed to end Slavery. It evolved to become the party of small government, low taxes, and general protection of liberty. Liberals can dispute that, but this is what THE mascot of the Conservative movement, Ronald Reagan, stood for. Now, however, the Gipper has passed on, and after four years of Bush Sr., eight years of the Clinton scourge, and eight more years of Bush Jr., America is growing sick of Politics-as-usual. I think that's why Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee...
If you're "pro-life" then you necessarily must be against sexual reproduction
I remembered hearing in a class I took a while back that a large percentage of fertilized eggs (conceptions) do not make it to full-term birth. To back this fact up, I did a quick search on the internet and found a New England Journal of Medicine article which confirms this fact, by claiming that "Only 50 to 60 percent of all conceptions advance beyond 20 weeks of gestation. Of the pregnancies that are lost, 75 percent represent a failure of implantation and are therefore not clinically recogniz...
There should be an age restriction to the people who can participate in debates.
First of all, I have wanted to start this debate for a while, but my problem was wondering which side I fell on. There are many young adults on here, <18, that are very capable of forming logical, rational arguments. With that said, there are also some who can/choose/do not do this. However, since I believe this site's main endeavor is the creation of knowledge, in order to not chance missing out on knowledge, we should not restrict anyone from debating, and that is why I'm against creatin...
Military interventionism is a poor tactic for making the world freer and safer.
First, to clearly define, by "military interventionism," I mean the tactic of sending large amounts of soldiers to a given country. I believe that special ops are warranted at times (read: for killing Osama and his ilk), but that whenever large amounts of soldiers are involved, it is highly probable if not certain that things will go poorly. I'll go into more detail when I see the arguments my interlocutor puts forth, but here's a quick rundown of my beliefs. Military interventionism esse...
Most Peoples' problem with SSM is that they believe it would force churches to marry SameSex Couples
Arguments are made that GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered) people should not be aloud to raise children. First of all, this argument is null and void. Statistics have shown that children raised in GLBT families are just as well off and possibly better off then those raised in straight families. And no, children raised by GLBT parents aren't always GLBT. All respectable medical, psychological, and children based organizations have come out stating that children are all of the above...
flag burning
Flag burning needs to be illegal. Burning the flag is simply unpatriotic. A loyal american would protect the flag, not destroy it. The flag is the national symbol of our country....
Imperialism is bad for either the imperialist or the conquered.
Human history has been characterized by the physical growth of states, by powerful states expanding their borders at the cost of weaker states. Since about the 19th Century, all states in the world have been more or less defined and expansion became a zero-sum game (in the eyes of all nations of the world). In order to expand, European powers had to attack and subjugate recognized sovereigns. However, the 19th Century, largely characterized by imperialism, was not in fact the darkest era of h...