Incomplete Disputes
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True or False? "Under no lawful circumstances may he use CIA agents for killing."
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True or False? "Surely, CIA agents can use deadly force defensively to protect themselves and their assets, but they may not use it offensively."
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True or False? "Under the Constitution, he can only order killing using the military when the U.S. has been attacked or when an attack is so imminent that delay would cost innocent lives."
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True or False? "Even so, he freed the slaves in only a part of the country: all the rest continued to clank their chains until he himself was an angel in Heaven."
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Was Abraham Lincoln a good president or a bad president?
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Which side was right in the American Civil War?
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Did Abraham Lincoln uphold the United States Constitution?
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True or False? "It would have been cheaper and less destructive for Lincoln to simply buy the slaves and free them."
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Are Americans free?
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True or False? "The regime of apartheid in South Africa, under which nonwhites were systematically oppressed and deprived of their rights, is remembered as one of the worst crimes against humanity of the 20th century."
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Is the multiverse hypothesis true?
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When did the Babylonians destroy Jerusalem?
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True or False? "Yes, it is true that plastic bags are more environmentally friendly when comparing the carbon footprint, but in the whole scheme of things, should we really be pushing lightweight plastic bags over alternative bag solutions like reusable b
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True or False? "Did you know that using the methane gasses generated from landfill sites are the least expensive form of clean energy we currently have available to us?"
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What was the half-cent coin worth in 1857?
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True or False? "Pennies no longer have much economic utility."
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True or False? "Since the penny costs 0.26 more than face value to make, the Mint can make 5 pennies and still lose less money than making 1 nickel."
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Will charitable causes be affected by the elimination of the penny?
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True or False? "That is, in a world where evil often trumps good, religion can't hurt."
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True or False? "Participation in a religious community may help kids develop a strong moral core."
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Was the Supreme Court case Boy Scouts v. Dale correctly decided?
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Does the Boy Scout requirement that scouts be "morally straight" require that they should not be homosexual?
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True or False? "President Lincoln freed all slaves with the stroke of a pen."
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True or False? "The North couldn’t win the war without black soldiers."
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True or False? "On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation became the first authorization by an American president to enroll Johnson's son, and other black men, as legal soldiers for the United States military."
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How many African Americans fought in the Civil War?
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True or False? ""All the combined economic value of industry, land and banking did not equal the value of humans held as property in the South," Gilpin says."
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True or False? "Sixty-eight percent of homicides were committed with guns (NCIPC)."
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True or False? "Guns are used to intimidate and threaten 4 to 6 times more often than they are used to thwart crime (Hemenway, p. 269)."
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How many gun homicides occur in the United States each year?