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These two ideas are contradictory then. As loseyourname pointed out, the majority of Americans don't fully support the ideals of the founders. Especially after 9/11, the majority supported some encroachment on civil liberties that the founders would have completely opposed. If you're not...

but a German living under Nazi Germany would have been unpatriotic for being against it?

Okay, so hypothetically, let's say there was another revolution in the US, a new government ruled, and had a new constitution with different laws. Would a person then have to believe in those ideas to be considered patriotic?

Kurt Vonnegut perfectly summed up my feelings on patriotism in Mother Night: "You hate America, don't you?" she said. "That would be as silly as loving it," I said. "It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my...

I wish I had your kind of optimism here. The way Botox got so popular, I think in 20 years everyone will be walking around unable to make a facial expression. :frown:

:rolleyes: 5 pages ago: hey kettle, you're black.

However the bell curve was funded, it doesn't change the fact that it was wrong. http://goinside.com/98/3/postmod.html

one of the sites YOU posted cites a study that says blacks adopted by white families don't show real IQ difference. of course everybody has limits. Not everyone can be Einstein. People like that are extreme cases.

then how exactly do you explain studies that consistently show that improving education and improving conditions increases IQ? Second of all, no one says IQ tests measure nothing. They were invented to indentify children who needed extra help, the person who created them specifically warned...

I like how BV just totally ignored my post.

Is there any way to criticize the president without it seeming partisan?

how do these statements not make sense? and studies do consistently show that changes in enviorment with the specific intent to improve ones conditions can raise IQ. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040303/01

Do you even read the entire sites you're posting? The last one specifically cites adoption studies showing that black children adopted into white families show little IQ variation from whites and studies showing that improving the conditions of disadvantaged children raises their IQ...

haha, I just re-read the article noticed you quoted the part about twins raised together.

yes, I was talking about the idential twins. Do you have the exact statistics of the study? The part quoted says they "tend" to be about 80% the same.