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Welcome to the About.com discussion forum focused on US Politics and Current Events.

This is a "big tent" message board which welcomes a broad range of opinions. Opinions are not homogeneous; for a food analogy, consider this Forum a stew, not a soup. Because there are viewpoints from all sides -- including foreign and domestic -- eventually you will probably disagree strongly with someone's comments. Please don't take differences of opinion personally. Disagreement does not justify lashing out at someone and or engaging in a personal attack.

Remember these two simple rules:
  • Respect copyright.
  • Disagree with opinions, don't attack individuals.
In short, participate with passion ... but without racial slurs, hate speech, obscenities, gossip or other juvenile noise. Repeat offenders will be blocked from participating. Any poster who advocates killing anyone -- government official, public person, private citizen -- will be immediately banned.

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