There’s little to no leverage on DACA for Dems running in tight election races this year (and once it was clear there would be 60 votes the rest of the Senate went by which message would play better for them between being Anti-Trump or pro-CHIP funding, so the final score isn’t surprising). While 70-80 percent of…

Just to add they are fine with proclaiming whatever level of government will get them to that end should be dominant, then turning on a dime. They bleat about the glories of local government right up until a liberal city passes an anti-discrimination law (like Denver adding sexual orientation as a protected class in…

I think what DoctorBrocolli was referring to is the initial discussion made DACA sound like a bridge to a permanent solution for the person akin to a temporary residency permit that can be made permanent after the “paperwork is in order”. DACA has no end state like that on its own - it isn’t a bridge but a 2 year…

Interesting piece - I know that region vaguely and it really doesn’t surprise me to hear that while regretting they never thought about it. The white people who convinced themselves their old economy jobs were lost due to regulation and globalization are all over the Northwest (fishing, logging, etc.). The truth is…

Well, they would be encouraging if they weren’t followed up with polls that suggest shutting down the government over DACA is not supported by anyone but Dems. That is for Republicans and independents, much like Trump, they’d like it if something was done for the Dreamers so long as it didn’t impact them in any way.…

And the People Magazine reporter he assaulted while a pregnant Melania was out of the room in December 2005

Yeah nothing screams compassion like misleading crises pregnancy centers, using gory fetal pictures, misrepresentations about legal rights and straight up lies to try and convince teenagers to carry to term with children that will help ensure the perpetuation of intergenerational poverty while supporting a party that…

While it makes a fun headline/story, this speaks to the slippery slope you can find yourself on if you mouth off to police. This is pretty clearly rhetorical - the idea he’s actually going to invest the time and energy to find out who this officer’s wife is, track her down and sexually assault her is pretty ridiculous…

But for the silence, not the sex. Right? Just like she was paid for her “performance” and “talent” in her movies, not the sex.

What was her reference point for intelligence? She is talking about banter, which might have gone as deep as some comment about his various business ventures (and their mutual interest in media production given he kept talking up the Apprentice), not nuclear weapons capability or the intricacies of immigration policy.…

But I’m assuming you also aren’t someone who has monetized sex as their profession? The calculation is a little different once you cross that line. Rather like how most corporate lawyers embrace the transactional nature of their trade and as a result tend to frame things in terms of the client’s interests and legalism…

Her friend/colleague’s story is that the day after she said he basically offered her keys to a condo. So basically an exchange of sex/access for favors, but in her mind not hooking because it wasn’t a direct transaction of pay for play. I know there’s a split of opinion on whether such a relationship is closer to sex…

He’s definitely a bigot - he sees just about everyone in terms of their ethnic identity and stereotypes (hence the assumption that people from economically distressed nations are inherently inferior as candidates for immigration to people from more prosperous nations, that all Muslims who want to come to America are…

I was using the term right in the universal sense that it has come to be seen as one of the basic rights of humans, not a Constitutionally guaranteed right - which I did note in the very last line. As a matter of modern reality and basic human decency there’s really no way to argue that healthcare is not a fundamental…

There’s always someone who is going to argue that a long primary is bad for the side having it, because it bleeds resources and opens fissures in the party. One theory would be that by attacking someone like Cardin from the left Manning will cause true lefties to abandon the Democrats altogether. As Bernie/Hillary…

I get why this gets attention, but in a two person primary she’s pretty much doomed unless Baltimore has become a hotbed of radical socialism without anyone noticing.. An agenda of eliminating borders and prisons isn’t exactly a strategy to win over the suburban liberals who are the backbone of Maryland’s base -…

I’m actually not certain it won’t survive a legal challenge. If you look at Hobby Lobby, the Court was fine with finding that the Federal Government’s obligations under RFRA made the “burden” of simply making birth control available was too great an imposition on “sincerely held beliefs” to withstand scrutiny. They in…

Straight up deferred compensation by a side agreement would be a violation of the CBA and piss off the union no end, but it wouldn’t break the law as far as I know. There are also limits in the CBA about what can be offered as compensation as I recall.

It isn’t embarrassing at all for two little boys to kiss each other. It is only sexualized by our cultural norms. I’ll admit that I’m socialized to think kissing on the lips is weird in a non-romantic context but I’ll also admit that’s my socialization, not something innate about human behavior. If other families…

Little kids hug and kiss each other all the damn time, especially if they are socialized to think a hug and a kiss is how you say hello, goodbye, good morning, good night, makeup from a fight or just signal your connection to each other. If Mom kisses them like that, and dad kisses them like that, and they are going…