Choose: Gallows or Guillotine?

A group calling themselves Americans United for Change asks Americans, in an upcoming set of radio and TV advertisements, "Are you with Obama or Rush?" I hope there are other options.
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Stimulus and growth of the economy or of the government?

Most people who at least watch the nightly news know of the recent stimulus package that passed in the House and is on it's way to the Senate.
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Disarming the Peasantry

As someone who has never owned, fired, or even held a gun, I find reassurance in the fact that I nevertheless have recourse to a means of self-defense should the need arise. Moreover, I like the idea of living in a country where the designs of an overly-zealous State are kept in check (at least in theory) by a well-armed citizenry. The State, of course, hating challenges to its own power, harbors an inveterate hostility towards gun-ownership rights, a hostility most recently manifested in this country in H.R. 45, sponsored by Black Panther-turned-congressman Bobby Rush. The purpose of H.R.
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Clever Maneuvering

Obama's executive order banning the use of torture as an interrogation tactic by some US officials is less significant than the White House has made it out to be, reports the News and Comments blog.  It may effectively prevent the American government from itself conducting torture, but it would not stop its keeping torture a component of the War on Terror:

Indeed, his policy change affects only a slight percentage of US-culpable tortures and could be co
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