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Question: What government program costs us 7 times what NASA does?
Answer: The department of Improper Payments.<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: In a study looking at data from over 50 years, towards which political party does the NY Times lean? 
Answer: Well, do you really have to ask?<\/a> And it’s more about what<\/em> stories are covered than about bias within stories.<\/p>\n

Question: Why do movements like pro-democracy or the Tea Party seem to balloon overnight?
Answer: The "Preference Cascade".<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: What are 5 truths about Planned Parenthood that you’re not likely to hear in the media?
Answer: Read them here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: How could you defend the use of sola Scriptura<\/em>, "Scripture alone", to someone who objects on the basis that humans are fallible, so you just can’t be sure what is<\/em> Scripture?
Answer: C. Michael Patton has a good response.<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: Has Paul Krugman ever flip-flopped on an issue for politics’ sake? Not a little quibble, but on really substantial stuff?
Answer: Oh yeah, he has.<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: Has Nancy Pelosi ever flip-flopped on an issue for politics’ sake?
Answer: Well, she blamed high gas prices on "two oil men in the White House" before.<\/a> Wonder who she’s blaming now.<\/p>\n

Question: Is Syria, a country that is killing its own citizens for protesting the government, really<\/em> being considered for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council?
Answer: Oh yeah, it is.<\/a> And the UN is divided<\/a> on whether it should even investigate their recent human rights abuses.<\/p>\n

Question: Was Stanley Ann Dunham punished with a baby.
Answer: No, the baby (Barack Obama) was not a punishment, even though Barack’s campaign rhetoric<\/a> would tend to suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n

Question: Has Hamas moderated, since it had to take on political leadership and run the Palestinians?
Answer: Oh no, it hasn’t.<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: Did Fox News push the whole "birther" issue the most?
Answer: Oh no, they didn’t.<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: Does Europe want us Yanks, with our neo-con aggression, out of their backyard?
Answer: According to this Norwegian liberal, oh no, they don’t.<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: Shouldn’t the federal government be a limited one?
Answer: Click for a larger image.<\/p>\n

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