The first guy to take a knee during the National Anthem was a trailblazer (or, if you prefer, a martyr for a cause.) The small number of people who who first followed that guy’s lead are the types who don’t like to see one person take all the flak from society for not conforming to a social tradition. The growing…

Ah, I missed that part. Thank you for the gentle correction.

Why is Burk an ass if he’s simply following the honor code by ratting out his fellow cadets?

It’s not like restating that ISIS are a bunch of despicable murderous psychopaths is going to help the women who were their sex slaves any more that “hijacking” a thread for one’s own personal amusement. If you ask me it’s a testament to just how horrible this story is that we have to speak about it in such a detached…

Oppression is relative, and it is oppressive by Western standards to have Christians use the legal system to dictate women’s options over their own health care. No one is saying that the oppressiveness is equivalent to what the sex slaves are suffering under ISIS.

If a person is old enough to sign up for our military service, then that person ought to be considered old enough to vote. What magic age do you think people reach when they stop making bad judgments?

Looking at a news site’s timeline of the narrative spun around the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks, Hillary Clinton said in a call to then Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil,

A Senate report on the Benghazi attacks didn’t mention Sec. Clinton but did mention that Ambassador Stevens refused military offers of security assistance at least twice (possibly because Stevens thought the tighter security would impair his efforts to build relationships with the locals.) So the buck may have stopped…

Nevah!

How artfully misogynistic of you! And racist, of course.

The artful smear! Sounds like a British foodstuff.

Pres. Obama might be trying to show that he’s “tough” on illegal immigrants so he can sell a new immigration policy to Congress. Although, I would be surprised if Obama himself directly ordered ICE to arrest a bunch of women and children for deportation. He probably gave some vague order about stepping up enforcement…

You don’t think the attacks in Cologne and elsewhere in Germany on New Year’s Eve were coordinated? I highly doubt that those attacks were independently carried out and didn’t have some common impetus.

Uh, it seems like it’s the police and politicians who have been the source of shocking news lately. What should the media cover if not shocking events? At this point, if the media just abruptly stopped reporting violent acts with the vague hope that it would curb copycat crimes, then I imagine the people prone to acts…

Everyone in Switzerland may be covered by health insurance, but it isn’t “free” as you stated. Like with Obamacare in the U.S., the Swiss government provides subsidies to 35% to 40% of the Swiss population to help pay for health insurance. But, according to that New York Times article, in Switzerland:

The Swiss model for healthcare appears to be like Obamacare — everyone is required to buy health insurance and they can’t be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Say what you about Lindsey Graham and his ilk but I don’t think most of them are pandering to the murderous white supremacist sect of the Christian Coalition.

Not murdering people seems to be a significant difference between the way the Religious Right operates here in the US and the way ISIS carries out their beliefs. There is plenty to complain about how religion is tainting our political landscape here in the US, so I don’t find it helpful to add hyperbolic declarations…

While the Religious Right are appalling in their own ways, they are also quite a few shades-of- gray different than ISIS.