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Coal power produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power
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President Obama has improved the United State's relationship with the rest of the world
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President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq
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The world will not end in 2012
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Drug money saved the world economy
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US involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is now as large as the Vietnam war
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World Vision is a strictly Christian organization and receives several hundred million dollars each year
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Nuclear power in the US is insured by the federal government (and therefore the US taxpayer)
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The world population subsidizes 1/3 of the profits of the world's biggest companies
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Ron Paul thinks the US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery
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The US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery
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The US Civil War was not fought to end slavery
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The US Civil War was fought to return the seceded confederate territory to the Union
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The cause of the US civil war was abolition of slavery
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The cause of the US civil war was states' rights
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The cause of the US civil war was southern opposition to economic protectionism
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Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause
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Some government in the world is engaging in geoterrorism by remote earthquake creation
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Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war
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The cause of the US civil war was not economic
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If the cause of the civil war had only been about economics, whites would not have had a reason to continue racism through Jim Crow laws
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The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights
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The cause of the civil war was a disagreement about only one state right, the right to hold people as property as slaves
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The world is overpopulated in 2010
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The world could produce much more food if everyone ate grain
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General Electric, a New York corporation, paid $0 in taxes to the U.S. but had world-wide profits of $10.8 billion
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Current technology is incapable of creating earthquakes, except maybe limited ones with nuclear weapons. "Electromagnetic waves" is certainly not the way to do it.
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In 1993 a group of tobacco, nuclear energy, agribusiness, chemical, and oil companies created an astroturfed organization called The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)
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In June 2010 the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam war as the longest war in U.S. history
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Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center cancelled his Qur'an burning day because of financial pressure
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The "war on drugs" was designed to secretly target minorities
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The "war on drugs" was designed to target minorities, despite the fact that whites are more likely than blacks to commit drug crimes
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The civil war was not about tariffs
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Satoshi Kanazawa thinks we should have had a nuclear response to 9-11
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Wealthy nations should not donate money to third-world countries except in the case of disasters where infrastructure can be easily replaced by aid
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Organic farming could not feed the world's population in 2011
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The world is overpopulated
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The Soviet declaration of war on Japan caused Japan to surrender during World War II
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The atomic bomb did not cause Japan to surrender during World War II
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The US is owed close to as much as it owes other countries
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An Israeli company left the World Trade Center days before Sept. 11, 2001, breaking its lease and losing$50K
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The "war on drugs" was a Pink person's political response to race riots
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The "war on drugs" began the explosion of the U.S. prison population
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World legal jurisdictions are trending towards allowing service of process via Facebook
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