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"Jesus apparently drove the moneychangers from the temple because they were lending out the money deposited with them and getting interest from the loans." Jewish law did not allow offerings to be made using coins bearing a graven image. The moneychangers literally changed Roman money into acceptable local coins that could be taken inside
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"Remember everything Hitler did was legal." Yet the Nuremburg tribunal was conducted using German law.
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"Are HOAs (home owner's associations) unlibertarian?" In principle no. But often in practice yes. Here is Texas HOA's have the statutory right to pass off their legal costs to any member they sue.
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" Israel is blockading goods moving to Gaza through Israeli territory. " No. Gaza has a coastline. The blockade is preventing goods from being imported by sea. Israeli territory is not involved at all.
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Fact Check: The Israelis are blockading Gaza, which is not a part of Israel. It is a territory with which the Israelis consider themselves to be at war. The Star of the West was a Union ship trying to reinforce Fort Sumter, which the Confederates were blockading.
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@EternalMind An execellent course on the philosophy of science is the Teaching Company title Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know it .
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Well the most profitable legal plant they can grow is tobacco. The second would be cotton. Food crops would be somewhere way down the list. Why not just privatize the zoo and let the owners decide what kind of plants best suit their needs? Decorative plants do have their uses. I wouldn't particularly care to look at a bunch of corn stalks while
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Then at the end some historian says, "Oh well, that was just Stalin being Stalin and he made Russia a superpower so it was all worth it." That's pretty much official Russian history now under Putin.
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"Could Japan simply have gotten their oil from another supplier? Did they really need to bomb us?" At the time their oil came mostly from the Philippines, which was a US colony. After the Spanish-American war Teddy Roosevelt's detractors predicted that the continued US possession of the Philippines would eventually cause a war with Japan
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[quote user="Snowflake"]When you homestead land, you don't own it. You only own the rights to continue homesteading it uninterrupted[/quote] I have to agree with the others that this doesn't make sense. I think in trying to define homesteading you are focusing too much on the meaning of the word "own" when you should be focusing