Do you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%E2%80%93Russia_relations? I don't see where "WHY we've been violating our agreement with Russia and expanding NATO east" comes into play, unless there are other agreements.

Of course I'm not. You're arguing that, short of complete knowledge, I should sit down and shut up?
Get bent. I'm a paying customer, and I'll call it like I see it.

The whole Bill of Rights, if you read Amar's book, one discovers they are directed at specific abuses suffered at the hands of the British (e.g. quartering).
That's not hyperbolic nonsense, sir: that's history.

That there was funny.

The underlying motivation is that all of the actors happen to be human.
The 1787 Constitution was a novel approach to minimizing the federal effects, until the Wilson era.

It's perfect! Unsinkable? Unthinkable!
No Homer will ever be allowed, and all the regulators will be objective and unbowed!

How else are you going to do it, without delegitimizing the proceedings?

Yeah, her record as SecState is only less marked by accomplishment than her stint in the Senate.

Of course. Let us not forget NSA lying to congress, engaging in corporate espionage, subverting crypto standards, spying on Senators, spying on foreign leaders, and monitoring and managing online discussions on technology websites like Slashdot. But I don't see how any of that would help us track conventional military units overseas.

The US president is a Spokesmodel.

The last vestiges of Presidential authority as actual executive were blown out of JFK's skull, 50 years ago. The real rulers have allowed the cosmetic changes of politics, without substantial challenge to policy or imperative.

That's why you can argue successfully to let fags into the imperial legions, but not if such legions should be withdrawn from the globe and disbanded.

False conservatism, false progressive/liberalism. Everybody in the US takes a hot shower and drives to the mall, on the burnt bodies and broken future of a million dead babies - hidden in Congo and Yemen and Indonesia and...

An engineering problem in the sense that there is not enough matter in the universe to accelerate a spacecraft at 1 g for 2 years using any currently plausible propulsion method.

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/14/04/16/0221210/study-finds-us-is-an-oligarchy-not-a-democracy

Your brain washing has been complete. You are now free to follow orders, citizen.

You have the same government that you started this century with.

They just changed spokesmodels - while you felt like you had a say in the matter... Your coup happened in many stages, over many decades - but defining moments happened with the Truman/Eisenhower/Kennedy years - with a decisive event in Nov 1963...