Putin is beyond a revanchist. He’s an old school communist, nearly a Bolshevik-an apparatchik- who still thinks history is trending towards”workers of...
I wasn’t challenging your argument, which is little more than that a scaffold of testimonial evidence is better than limited testimonial evidence inso...
You put great stock in these premises being true to ground your particular conclusion, which no one disputes as a measure for being logically consiste...
Re: testimonial evidence in the manifold way you described it as a valid measure of an event: For two years and more-every day, every hour-millions of...
Also, I think you’re 1) conflating atheism and agnosticism and b) presupposing that atheism is an argument for God’s nonexistence. The latter would be...
Let’s say, arguendo, that religion x is a necessary condition for any god(s) or for ( big G) God’s existence. We then must grant, per that defining re...
What you mention of federalism is more its residue than its design. Federalism, like separation of powers and checks and balances, is about securing t...
The prostitution of the commerce clause ended any pretense of federalism. It’s DC’s ( congress’s) plenary instrument for making all things it’s own bu...
Last try: the current demographics with respect to state legislatures are such that republicans control the vast majority of them. Plain fact. Accordi...
Yes. I do. What about it? Unless it’s based on racial or equal protection (5a/14a) type issues, partisan gerrymandering is a mundane political issue c...
I believe this comment is the source of confusion. My point is that the republicans would have to do very little to hold onto their senate power inasm...
Your claim was that changing the senate ( structure) is nearly impossible since it would hurt the republicans. Well, allow me to simplify how current ...
First, thanks for the quote tip. Secondly, you say changing the senate structure would be nearly impossible since it would hurt the republicans. I’m s...
“There is no valid justification for the existence of the Senate. “ The father of the constitution, Madison, would disagree. He offers multiple valid ...
“Also, an amendment to the Constitution has to be ratified by two thirds of the states, which makes it nearly impossible to change the Senate, not to ...
“I admire the Amish lifestyle, though I'd probably choke on their theology. But Lord have mercy, they are not hearkening back to a long distant past. ...
In rural pockets of PA, the Amish and “ Pennsylvania Dutch” folks abound. Mennonites, their multi-dimensional brethren, circumnavigate nearby. You can...
Stalin liquidated his political foes and ex-comrades; exiled, tortured and murdered his countrymen, including soldiers, academics, scientists and anyo...
“ The point of such comparisons is to draw attention to where we the US is headed if that behaviour is the new normal.“ Oh, please. The point of such ...
“In today’s G.O.P., as in Stalin’s Russia, evidently, decades of loyal public service count for nothing when the leader and his henchmen decide someon...
“Does or should Hotelling's Law apply to potential democratic candidates-who would want to win, quite obviously-against Trump in 2020?” Yep. President...
“And what specifically has Trump done to improve the unemployment rate for minorities?” He’s induced businesses to hire them at a significant rate. Th...
“The unemployment numbers do not tell the whole story.” Of course not. Few accomplishments arrive sans the shoulders and genius of others before them....
“...during a boom created by his predecessor...” The average unemployment rate under Obama for minorities, especially women, was %18 at its lowest (be...
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