Using a quasi-neutral sounding name as a facade for biased research, opinions, and policies seems to be a sound strategy, it worked for a long time for big tobacco. 

Collective punishment of the entire Palestinian population, including children and the infirm is despicable, cowardly and ultimately counter productive.

I get that your heart is in the right place, but do you have any idea how frustrating it is when you walk in and pull a “not all white Christians”. Yes, the court does not represent you politically. But you’re not at risk from their decisions, and won’t be. Hell the opinion that protected that Christian baker was…

Regardless of politics he will be just shy of his 79th birthday on inauguration day 2021. Can we please be done with these ancient white men?

ICE is made up of the guys that the local police turned down for being openly racist and displaying overtly violent tendencies in the job interview.

It was Webster’s, actually. And that’s not what hyperbole means. And I wasn’t the original user of ‘chilling,’ so we aren’t talking about me at all, so ‘they’ is, in fact, the correct pronoun. You fail reading comprehension, in addition to everything else about this pathetic little squeeb for attention. Mediocre job, m…

Idiotic and racist? Well why don’t you back up those two claims with some evidence. I think it’s fairly clear she used less than ideal wording, and she’s made herself an easy target to hit for Trump and his base of racists. They’re going after Waters rather than other black women because her style is conducive to…

I think we’re in violent agreement. My point was that even if you accepted the logic of the “democracy” versus “republic” distinction, republics don’t do this. Republics can’t do this. Republics are republics specifically because they have procedural safeguards that prevent this. Those procedural safeguards are, in…

Neoliberalism is a real thing with a real definition and it has been studied and written about for decades. You just don’t like the word because it’s a way to accurately identify people who aren’t as progressive as they think they are. Google “austerity measures” for further reading.

“...Sessions told the Christian Broadcasting Network’s 700 Club...”

Indefinite detention for a class B misdemeanor. All for lack of a little paperwork.

I like this group of sites. My criticism is that I want Splinter to chose whether it’s a gossipy Gawker style site or a news site, and if the latter work on offering a bit more.

NPS National Mall and Memorial Parks public affairs number is 202-245-4675. Everyone should call and share their opinions on this march!

GOP:

I guarantee I’ve read more “real history”, and likely more “real political science” than you have. Unless you have extremely abnormal reading habits, that’s a very safe bet for me.

Some need to hear it directly from the horses mouth to fully grasp it.

No, it doesn’t. You’re reading from a script, a very cliched one I’ve heard quite a few times before. It’s not a “slippery slope” argument either. You’re responding to strawmen, which I suppose is why you neglected to provide any real substance in either comment.

I don’t think we should ignore the reminders that this President is barely capable of basic human interaction. However, you’re very much correct that it’s a sad indictment of Splinter’s priorities when the US withdrawing from the Human Rights Council doesn’t warrant a passing mention compared to Trump making another…

Yes, I got that one wrong. That was the ONLY one there. Also, for fuck’s sake why are people acting like I don’t read and comment regularly and pretending I’m a troll? Do you have no critical thinking skills?

No, bigger stories are NOT getting plenty of play, and the “small shit” has long since passed the point of diminishing returns on a site like this that is largely a single political subset.