Yeah, say what you will about Ted Cruz, but he’s not a neo-Nazi like a good chunk of Europe’s ultra-Right.

Yeah. The federal government does have supreme authority over matters of immigration, so OP is right about that. But the federal government has passed a number of immigration laws that at least *appear on the surface* to say that the President is not allowed to do exactly the thing President Obama tried to do with…

I don’t agree with the way it attacks catastrophic-care policies. If you want to have a comprehensive plan, sure, that should be an option available to you, but those of us who think insurance is mainly there to pay catastrophic costs (while we pay our routine costs out-of-pocket) should have also been allowed to keep…

He’s still tough on Republicans. See his Ted Cruz shindig?

Imagine if conservatives applied the “don’t watch actors who believe things that offend me” standard to film and TV stars! Wouldn’t have anything left to watch. Progressive privilege does it again.

I know you are, but what am I?

I am genuinely baffled that anyone could not know the answer to this question, but I’ve seen it several places in the past 24 hours, and so many of the answers seem to revolve around some kind of “Puritans love punishing people” fantasy that I feel I may be of some use here. Here are some arguments:

Problem: documents were fake. Documents were not authenticated. Journalists lied about whether they had been authenticated. Journalists did not do a single one of a dozen things they might have done to verify the documents. Journalists were not doing their jobs; journalists were doing hatchet job on a political enemy.…

“adjusting the laws so horrible people like this guy can’t get them.”

You or your immediate surroundings. Had the shooter attacked one of the classrooms where these guys were initially, he would have been fired upon. These guys apparently then set up a defensive perimeter at their building. Had the shooter attempted to violate that perimeter, he would have been fired upon. The gun…

Yeah, she’d have fit in well with the Blue Dog Democrats who got elected — many from around her area, as I recall — in 2008.

Um, what now? The Democratic Party didn’t come out officially for gay marriage until Two Thousand and TWELVE — literally their most recent platform update. As recently as 2004, the party platform explicitly stated that marriage should be a state issue... which is precisely the position Kim Davis herself takes.

“The SFL rep who gave them to me said, “We’re really into clickbait.””

Where do you live? I find this attitude crops up all the time in urban GOP enclaves in otherwise deep-blue areas — especially in high-upper-crust jobs like the financial sector. (Rockefeller Republicanism never really died out; it just evolved into the modern GOP donor class and tried to accommodate itself to its new…

So if someone supports abortion choice but not gun choice, they are “pro-choice,” and to question that is sophistry.

In some first-world countries with such programs, the abortion rates are lower than they are here. (I am aware of no nation where it the abortion rate is anywhere CLOSE to “statistically insignificant”, but perhaps I’m out of date.) In other first-world countries with such programs, the abortion rates are *higher*…

Depends on the kind of rhythm method you’re using. If you’re using the Knaus-Ogino rhythm method (the “classic” rhythm method), sure, you’re going to have relatively low effectiveness compared to the Pill, even with perfect use. But Knaus-Ogino came out in the 1920s, and I don’t think anyone uses it anymore, anywhere.…

It is worth noting that prohibition itself is a fairly effective abortion-reduction measure — as are the many lesser restrictions anti-aborts impose on abortion access. Waiting periods, clinic closures, and defunding measures all have a measurable impact on the abortion rate.

Speaking as a pro-lifer here: “anti-abortion” is fine. Indeed, it’s quite a bit more precise, and I personally prefer it to the far vaguer (but more emotionally appealing) “pro-life”.

Why not hang out with that Student-for-Life who reads Jez every day? No doubt she can at least fake her way through a conversation about Scandal.