As opposed to Trump, who got rich by a grant from his rich daddy (money which he's largely squandered due to his being terrible at what he does), and ...
So what? It doesn't mean that O'Keefe isn't a liar, or that the videos were presented in an honest manner. The Obama administration fired Shirley Sher...
I thought that guy in the video looked familiar: known liar and fraud James Edward O'Keefe III. Please give us a break with this, and find some real s...
Interestingly, House Speaker Paul Ryan is quite the fervent Ayn Rand acolyte, and also happens to currently be in a nasty tiff with...Donald Trump. Co...
I've never understood former felons' permanent voting disenfranchisement at all, or how it can pass constitutional muster. Once a person has served hi...
The Nobel Peace Prize was always politicized in my opinion. Al Gore won the prize for Chrissakes - granted, I commend his work exposing anthropogenic ...
I don't desire to block you because you're a "dissident." There are many people with whom I disagree and with whom I've had interesting and civil disc...
Yes: for all of the endless carping about how awful Hillary is (even from some of the people who support her), it's telling that her enemies must cons...
Benghazi?? Jesus Christ, you have really drunk the Fox News Kool Aid. Bush and his cronies started a war on false pretenses which has cost the country...
How will Trump "end illegal immigration"? Yes, he has perhaps said he will do so, but he's offered no remotely plausible plan for doing so (even his r...
People complain when police patrol their neighborhood, and then complain when they don't. A violent criminal gets into an altercation with a police of...
So, in other words, given the power of a Western military, ISIS would become akin to one of (if not the) worst regimes in human history. And clearly F...
Of course (and I already mentioned the nuclear bombing of Japan earlier in this thread). However, you will note a couple of points: (1) this tactic is...
Sure, we can include the British; I didn't specifically exclude them. You accused me of responding to "shit you didn't say," but you are making the te...
I didn't make any claim as to the nationality of the person who issued the fatwa, and it doesn't really matter. Saudi Arabia (a Sunni state) is a much...
Perhaps because it had hardly any success? The Saudis' export of Wahhabism is second only to their oil exports. To try to put lipstick on a pig by cla...
I see. So, when you say things such as the below (emphasis added)... ...perhaps you could explain who the "we" refers to in being "way ahead in the ra...
Either your "hitting" comment pertained to the discussion at hand, in which case my response was a propos, or it didn't pertain to the discussion, in ...
How exactly did any of the 84 dead in Nice (to say nothing of other terrorist attacks) "hit" the attacker? How did Boston "hit" the Tsarnaevs? By admi...
Why? Trump is an ill-informed populist demagogue who has probably never read a book he hasn't written (and maybe not even then), and Hillary Clinton i...
Ah yes, it's all America's fault, of course, because we support "corrupt regimes" (and I'm sure Egypt, for example, would have done just fine being ru...
Hmm, so, for instance, Osama bin Laden attacked the United States because we bombed Saudi Arabia? And American citizen Omar Mateen shot up a gay night...
So, in other words, their party fails to live up to their stated ideals, and so Republicans...remain Republicans. Brilliant. (This is little different...
Yes, and your response was sophistry. You are fully aware that the sole reason for delaying the vote (or refusing to hold it at all) is to deny Obama ...
I see. And so, if Senate Democrats refused to bring a President Trump nominee up for consideration for four years or so, you'd be fine with that? Afte...
How so? I didn't even offer any prescriptive statements about shrinking the government: I was just pointing out how Republicans lie about wanting to s...
Sorry, this is just conservative pablum. Republicans aren't in favor of actually shrinking or weakening the government: they're for doing away with pr...
First, Merrick Garland (the candidate specifically at issue here) was not a "bad nominee" by any reasonable measure of the term. He is a federal judge...
Yes, because Senate Republicans have refused to even vote on an Obama nominee, once again (and I repeat) putting party before country. I would love to...
It's misleading to say that Senate rules require a 60% supermajority to vote on a bill. It only requires such a supermajority if the opposition party ...
No, it doesn't. I wasn't in fact responding to the OP's question, which was ably answered by others on this thread. I was responding to your post, in ...
Immigration from Mexico has been zero (or negative) in recent years, so you would elect a buffoon with fascist tendencies (who's as big a liar as Hila...
Sure, throw it in, as I am cis-gendered, insofar as we need a term to describe that. I'm not sure what "angle" I'm working, though. My point could hav...
Attempting to burn down bars full of gays is not relegated to the 1970s, it seems. One recent attempt to burn down such a bar in Seattle was committed...
If not for Islam, gays in America would have it no tougher than heterosexual white men, for instance? As a heterosexual white man myself, I somehow th...
Absolutely. And the fact that some of them are American Christian groups is all the scarier. (Such movements even seem to have at least the tacit appr...
I think it represents a trend of young men and women who have enjoyed the fruits of a modern Western life (no pun intended, really...) being swept up ...
I'm not so sure about that. Face-to-face interactions generally induce in people pressure to adhere at least tangentially to some sort of social decor...
Indeed. The fact that Western nations have played an outsized role in foreign aid and assistance to Africa seems to often go unremarked-upon in these ...
Much of what we acclaim about Western civ is in fact a relatively recent invention. It wasn't so long ago that belief in magic, persecution of "witche...
I do recall that human breast milk ice cream was a thing for a while. Gives whole new meaning to the term "milk shake"... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-e...
Augustino, you're right. I see now that women were historically the equals of men (and the fact that a few highborn Roman women were puppet masters be...
Oh, I see! So, denying women the right to participate in politics was for their protection! (Of course, I talked about their right to vote and not nec...
None of this says that "pace" implies agreement. Here's another one: "used before a person’s name to express polite disagreement with what they have s...
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