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| bio | website | jfrankcarr.com |
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| location | Atlanta, GA | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
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Jun 8 |
answered | Maintaining the status quo throughout the British Colonies of North America |
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Jun 6 |
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What is the origination of the Forlorn Hope? I didn't want to leave too simple an answer so I put it as a comment in case you hadn't seen it. BTW, the Marines actually evaluate an officer candidate's ability to handle a forlorn hope, they call in SULE: marinecorpstimes.com/class186/part2-sule.php |
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Jun 6 |
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What is the origination of the Forlorn Hope? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forlorn_hope |
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Jun 6 |
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Animal “blood lust” @T.E.D. - In researching it, I mainly looked around for stuff related to Bucephalus, since that was the war animal that first came to mind. If they weren't associated with a famous military leader, animals didn't get much mention in ancient accounts. More recently, given our changes in society, they get mentioned by name. Check out this account of 'war cats' I ran across: care2.com/greenliving/5-famous-cats-of-war.html |
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Jun 6 |
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How Did The US Justice System Lose Sight of Intent? @KeithThompson - You're correct in that the intent of lawmakers was to eliminate judicial discretion for certain criminal laws. However, I interpreted the question to fall into the area criminal intent and the lack of judicial discretion in the US legal system when it came to judging the level and circumstances of that intent, not the intent of lawmakers in writing the bill. |
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Jun 6 |
answered | What was the estimated population living in Egypt around 1446 BC? |
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Jun 6 |
answered | Animal “blood lust” |
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Jun 6 |
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How Did The US Justice System Lose Sight of Intent? @KeithThompson - See cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/… - "Mandatory minimums eliminate judicial discretion to impose a prison term lower than the statutory floor, making case-specific information about the offense and offender irrelevant, at least to the extent that these facts might call for a below-minimum sentence." |
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Jun 4 |
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How Did The US Justice System Lose Sight of Intent? @T.E.D. - Mandatory sentencing for drug offenses was the start of the big climb in rates. Lack of judicial discretion in sentencing has been expanded to many other crimes as well due to various political pressures from both right and left groups. |
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Jun 4 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jun 4 |
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Two Successive Coups? These are some good ancient references. I only looked at 20th/21st century events. |
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Jun 4 |
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Two Successive Coups? added 1856 characters in body |
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Jun 3 |
answered | Two Successive Coups? |
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Jun 3 |
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How Did The US Justice System Lose Sight of Intent? "I was tough on crime as your DA and I will continue to be as your Congressman." |
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Jun 3 |
answered | How Did The US Justice System Lose Sight of Intent? |
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Jun 2 |
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Gold Confiscation Act of 1933 @T.E.D. I'm probably more of a mix of Friedman's Chicago School and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swan" thoughts. While I can find points of agreement with the Austrians, I usually find myself arguing with them more than I do Keynesians when it comes to politics and the economy. |
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Jun 2 |
answered | Gold Confiscation Act of 1933 |
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Jun 2 |
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Gold Confiscation Act of 1933 BTW, my browser (Firefox 12.0) crashed when I visited the home page of that gold eagle site. Do you think they could pack in any more ads there? The linked page seems safe though. |
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Jun 1 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jun 1 |
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When people use spears to fight cavalry do infantry stab the horse or the rider? added 435 characters in body |
