If Enes Kanter can eat 7 cheeseburgers and then get paid to not show up to work, how come you can’t extend my FMLA leave ?

Its called impeachment

“McConnell has always been and will continue to be trash.” Kinda buried the lede there, eh? 

I think you sort of missed the point of the filing. Manafort is, more or less, rolling over and admitting that he breached the agreement. The redactions, however, reference Doc. No 460, which was filed by the government under seal. In other words, Manafort’s attorneys are not necessarily clumsily disclosing…

I partially disagree. I think you are painting with too broad a brush here. Maryland was formed as a refuge for English Catholics who did not want to be killed during the religious conflicts in Europe at that time. After years of conflict with Puritans (as far as I can tell, a now extinct sect of Christianity),…

I think you will agree that opinions as to spiritual relevance are likely dependent on the practitioner’s faith. That said, whatever they mean by “Judeo-Christian values” did not exist at the time of the founding fathers as most migrants to the colonies did so to escape the constant wars over which sect of…

Yes. Also, from a historical perspective, there were no “Judeo-Christian values” as Europe had been killing each other for hundreds of years over which version of Christianity was the right one. This is one of the main reasons why there is a First Amendment. Moreover, many of the enlightenment philosophers were…

Its very insidious. It is important to note that the proprietors of this type of thought are all evangelicals. It appears that they are trying to re-write history to aggrandize Evangelicalism today. Evangelicalism was, at best, nascent during the American revolution and none of the founding fathers, to my knowledge,…

Compared to Nets tickets, the Knicks are massively overpriced. Usually, there is a point in the season when the spread between the two in the secondary market narrows and they become more reasonably priced.  I am not going to a Knicks game until that equilibrium is met.  Price aside, it certainly is not difficult to…

They should do it split-screen with whatever is scheduled to air that night.

The WSJ Editorial Board is especially loathsome trash hiding behind the crumbling facade of a once-noteworthy daily publication. Don’t forget that these people were all “never-Trumpers” leading up to his nomination. Rather than maintain their convictions and hold the difficult, but intellectually honest position of…

As far as I can tell, the defamation case was resolved through a settlement agreement, which means there was no judicial fact finding or entry of judgment. If “it has now been decided by a judge that Stone would, and in fact did ‘make up lies’” is a statement founded on the existence of the settlement, its inaccurate…

Its just one of those things where they have to go through with it. It would be political suicide for democrats to not impeach even though they do not have the Senate. If you are a Dem, even though you have to assume Republicans will vote party line, you gotta go through with it or you appear complicit.

Impeachment is, unfortunately, an exclusively political act. An impeachable act is whatever you can get congress and the senate to sign off on. Its very frustrating to listen to people talking about Trump’s supposed future impeachment like its a question of fact. There are hundreds of individual impeachable acts…

What about when McGregor attacked that Bus

Yea. Its just semantic BS. The thing to remember with racists is that they are all liars and hypocrites. Once you understand that, dismantling their argument is not difficult. What is happening here is they are conflating a few concepts, which, by the way, they do not even believe in (hence liars and hypocrites).

This reprehensible shilling by my elected representative is to get funding for the gateway program—necessary renovations to the infrastructure surrounding the island of Manhattan. Trump withdrew the Federal Government’s pledge to contribute once he was elected and has made federal funding of a border wall the…

Yea, but the first amendment does not protect you from a private company’s reaction to your speech. So, no freedom of speech issue. Describing the reaction to her racist comments as a free speech issue is a red-herring designed to prop up her claim. Remember, her claim is that she was discriminated against based on…

The claim conflates animus towards someone’s racist actions, with animus against them for the color of their skin. They are separate things. There is no freedom of speech issue here.   

Diana has done amazing work covering this case.