Speaking only for myself, I am an ex-Christian and I never, ever bring up the subject of religion to anybody. When somebody else brings it up, I do get passionate about my unbelief in the things they assert are true with no evidence to back up their claims. I could just ignore it, to be sure, but t...

Facts i.e. things he has done: + Cabinet picks. Because he has chosen competent people and people who can clearly help with immigration issue, school choice, replacing Obamacare after repealed, taming the EPA, etc. Trump's tapping of Andrew Puzder for Labor Secretary is concerning with respect to t...

Liberals need to re-read that book. From what I can tell they are currently labeling ALL Trump voters, possible cabinet members and non-mainstream media as: -Racist -Sexist -Homophobe -Anti-Semite -Nazi -Alt-Right -White supremacist -Uneducated -Deplorable -Anti-Muslim I'm sure I missed a few, but ...

The problem *is* the insurance; adding more or different insurance schemes will not fix America's healthcare, IMHO. There's at least one field of medicine with procedures that decrease in cost year over year: cosmetic surgery. The reason? Insurance is not involved in these transactions. If a patient...

I'm probably stepping in it, but I think a contributing factor is whether the reader is "me focused, i.e. a taker" or "others focused, i.e. a giver". I think that is much more important that what a given poster says. I'll leave it at that. And for what it's worth, I enjoy your p...

Just a suggestion: If any poster here has a history of being annoyed by any other poster on this forum, please pre-emptively add them to the "Foe" list in "Control Panel -> Friends & Foes" so as to roll up their comments by default. I suggest trying this before calling for ba...

Wife and I donated to Trump several months ago and routinely receive e-mails asking us for input (which the campaign presumably uses to shape stated policy during the election cycle). Today we received a request for input on a Trump administration's cabinet. Here's how we answered: Secretary of Stat...

Prescott ( "Press-kit" ), AZ. Cooler weather, plenty of history, fair share of left-leaning inhabitants in a "Red" state. St. George, UT. Hotter weather, good demographics (like much of Utah), mix of left and right-leaning inhabitants. Butted up against Zion and Bryce national pa...

Sometimes a little corruption is a good thing :-) And perhaps a little inefficiency as well. As a thought, contrast the Venice of Italy with the Venice of California: http://allday.com/post/4478-the-hidden-history-of-the-now-paved-canals-of-venice-california/ .  Whether the paved-over or the gondol...

I see where you're going with this, but a lot of your questions are really inapplicable. Of course they didn't have a unified code of laws, property deeds, etc. They were a primitive people compared to European settlers. Not all of them were nomads, either. Quite a few tribes had permanent settled ...

If the United States "stole" anything it was barren land marauded by aboriginal nomads That's, uh, one way of putting it. Not to get sidetracked, but how else should one say it?  If the lands that would constitute the United States were "stolen" from aboriginal nomads, the quest...

I prefer to think of it as Karma given the fact the we basically stole about 1/4 of their country. Most of that 1/4 of Mexico's land was in fact unsettled due to the threat of Indians.  If the United States "stole" anything it was barren land marauded by aboriginal nomads, and certainly n...

We are not talking about "asking" Mexico to do anything. We are talking about issuing what is tantamount to an ultimatum backed by the threat of draconian economic sanctions. Any country would consider such a thing to be, if I may borrow a diplomatic phrase, a "hostile act." And...

I'm glad I'm holding several bitcoins as a "remittance-hedge". Day 1: President Trump announces suspension of cash and capital flows into Mexico from the United States. Day 2: Mexico announces a new treaty of friendship with Russia including the right to build a naval air station at Madero...

The Levite tribes of Christian love that show No care nor pity for a neighbor's woe; Who meet, each distant evil to deplore, But not to clothe or feed their country's poor; They waste no thought on common wants or pains, On misery hid in filthy courts and lanes, On alms that ask no witnesses but Hea...

[...] The lesson drawn by commentators is that it is fruitless to allow moralists to use criminal law to control intoxicating substances. Many now say it is equally unwise to rely on the law to solve the nation's drug problem. But the conventional view of Prohibition is not supported by the facts. ...

Every group in America would seem to need their own "Anti Defamation League" to get ahead of the media's near-endless libels.  As it stands, a tenth or a hundredth of the people who were lied to about Ferguson will ever hear the truth in arrears, the police and this nation's institutions w...

C I don't assume that the Democrats take the senate. It was just a hypothetical. I think it's likely that Trump wins the presidency and Republicans keep the senate. Throwing out principles, this is all tactical. Confirming Merrick is risk mitigation in case Hillary wins, because they can't and won'...

It's obvious that in the current climate and level of polarization, Republicans are never going to like a Democratic supreme court nominee, and the reverse is true too. However, despite this, Republicans confirmed Sotomayor and Kagan, and Democrats confirmed Roberts and Alito. Obama just isn't goin...

I find it odd that many of the Trump supporters on this forum are in favor of appointing a Supreme Court nominee, who, if nominated, will more than likely fight Trump on several of his signature issues: a border wall, a temporary ban on Islamic refugees, and a re-examination of birthright citizensh...

I find it odd that many of the Trump supporters on this forum are in favor of appointing a Supreme Court nominee, who, if nominated, will more than likely fight Trump on several of his signature issues: a border wall, a temporary ban on Islamic refugees, and a re-examination of birthright citizenshi...

I'm sort of astonished that Obama came up with a straight white guy for a nominee.  I was starting to think that there wouldn't be any more white male heterosexuals added to the court. There's a little more to today's ethnic/gender/sexual orientation circus than "straight and male".  Merr...

What leadership.  I believe it was the Spartan Agesilaus who said that fighting long wars is, in-effect, teaching one's enemies how to fight you.  Putin will likely been seen by posterity as one of the few strong Western leaders of this rotten era.

All that is fine other than the "lower" part. What is the criterion for "higher" and "lower"? I can't speak for PS, but I'm guessing "higher" and "lower" was meant in the economic sense, e.g. forgoing an area of "high-status" BMW 7-series ...

Slowly I'm coming to realize that I'm basically a class traitor. I am naturally a member of this elite class, and I happily benefit from the economic opportunities it affords me, but I don't like living in the kinds of societies it creates--fast-paced, exhausting, stratified, expensive, obsessed wi...