Recent content by Coral

Having been to Indonesia for extended periods of time, Masada's posts are solid. Also, if you have the money, see about picking up some paintings or wood furniture. The craftsmanship is simply excellent, and the prices are very reasonable. Though, I look Indonesian so perhaps that brought the...

You do realize that East Timor was never legally part of Indonesia, and now has full independence? East Timor as an example demonstrates nothing. They were invaded and Indonesia was fully capable of keeping East Timor under permanent occupation. The only reason East Timor is currently...

You seem to have this idea that Indonesia is simply a paper tiger that will break as soon as it loses an engagement. The Indonesian military has a proven propensity for extreme and simply unnecessary brutality and ruthlessness, and along with decades of experience combating insurgency next to...

More bombs hit Indonesia--but that's not the important news, really. What's important is that for the past four years, Indonesia hasn't had suicide bombings like this, meaning that the security forces have been largely successful. And even more important is the scale of SBY's re-election--he won...

Uh, no? In almost any other situation over the past few years, it would have been acceptable for Israel to attack Iran. Right now, the government desperately hopes that Israel doesn't attack Iran because if such an attack were to take place, it would legitimize the regime at a moment where the...

Liberals!!!1!!!1! Always angry and preying upon humble beautiful innocent conservative women who never did anything wrong !

Yep, north of Boston is a great place to live, plus NH is just across the border. We're in the process of moving to the south, where we're astounded that even though people on average make much less, the cost of food, clothing and other necessities is much more and there's a 7% tax on...

People want it, but they don't really want to pay for it. If it really were something that would be popular in the longterm, the Democrats would have already pushed it through. Romney came to a reasonable compromise on healthcare because he had to deal with a massive Democratic majority. So he...

Andover, Massachusetts: Median household income: $102,762 Median family income: $131,469 No taxes on necessities like food and clothing, and it's a wealthy area in general.

Jerichohill has clearly stated his views. You don't know what a Republican is. First, it's a party, not a political stance, but second, social liberalism doesn't fit in with the main Republican platform. You don't know what libertarian even means. Libertarian has to do with freedom in all...

Hence why carbon cap and trade is capitalist and not socialist, though Death Machine seemed to imply that it was socialist :).

Carbon cap and trade is the capitalist, not the socialist approach to emissions reduction. Essentially, the companies will trade emissions shares on the commodities market, just like any other commodity or stock. There will be big gains to be made by financial companies, who will buy and trade...

Socially progressive fiscal conservatives have everything to gain. The Republican Party has steadily moved far right on many issues and tried to force other moderate Republicans right with them, while Democrats have moved further left economically. This leaves a gap between the two parties that...

IMHO, the Republican Party would do well to split itself apart. They try too hard to be conservative on such a broad range of issues, from religion to foreign policy to the economy and government, while it quickly becomes clear that these ideas are too conflicting to be held by a single party...

Let's be honest about ACORN: Was any voter fraud actually committed? They signed up hordes of 'people', but did any of those 'people' actually vote? Did Mickey Mouse and Barney, for example, vote? If not, then was voter fraud really committed? ACORN paid people to go out there and sign people up...