Everyone who will change their vote on this is already voting Democrat. The bulk of libertarian voters will never change their votes based on this and they are unable to elect libertarian legislators. The upper middle class swing vote can already get abortions and, frankly, most of them don't give a rat's rear about…

Um, what politicians and judges have been laundering "billions of dollars of drug money"? You seem to be conflating large banking operations and illegal operation spanning the breadth of multiple large countries (US, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Colombia and numerous smaller nations) with politicians and judges. Also, the…

Too many details are missing from the corruption case. Were the gifts money acquired by crime? Was the mayor taking expensive, illegal gifts from people he should have suspected were criminals? Was he suspected of doing the same from other criminals? In that case, you are putting away someone who might be shielding…

tomwnclubpop, HRHDuchessNapsalot, etc.: the press and political opponenets should leave politicians' children alone.

Yeah, the similarities between tumors and embryos is a long standing observation.

"All of the above energy policy" sounds better than "we should never say no to an energy project."

It is not strange at all. If his morality was based on the Golden Rule, harm reduction and fairness, then his actions make no sense. If it based on religious doctrine, then it makes sense. The idea that whites are above blacks can be seen as contrary to Christian Biblical teachings. Homosexual sex is also contrary to…

If you are talking about abortion rights, public opinion has been slowly creeping against them over the last couple of decades. The youth in both parties are slightly more pro-life than they were 10 years ago. How well this holds up as it begins to affect more and more well to do women remains to be seen (restrictions…

Conservatives are trying to claim Martin Luther King Jr. was a conservative. Anyone surprised by this simply does not understand how conservative bigotry has worked throughout American history. They pull the exact same trick over and over and over again and some people who don't read history never catch on.

See, when I read this I thought that it was much ado about a work release program. Sometimes dangerous criminals are allowed to get day jobs which saves money for the state, provides taxes and provides a powerful incentive for continued good behavior therefore making the prison safer for inmates and corrections…

I knew you were not talking about court mediation and my point still stands. Time might heal the rifts, but in this case the debt was due.

I agree with the college here. Her requests clearly indicate her interests are mainly research and publication rather than teaching. There is nothing wrong with that, but smaller liberal arts colleges are about teaching with some research on the side. If I saw the other candidates, I might change my mind, but I feel…

Mediation is a great word. Have you ever tried to mediate a dispute bad enough that one or both parties were willing to go to court? I have, and it will be only the most extreme circumstances that motivate me to try something like that again. Mediation is easy to say, but it will not happen when you have 2 angry…

I agree. I have known a women who felt she could not leave her husband because she was too old and he had the job. She could survive, but it would be a hard life and she decided to tolerate his behavior rather than live that way (he since mellowed out a lot). I knew several people in college and seen several younger…

He "appeared to be a client." Perhaps if they caught him doing anything or he was foolish enough to not invoke his 5th amendment rights he would have been arrested? Or perhaps he was balking because she appeared to be underage? Or maybe they had reason to believe he would appear in court without an arrest? Or maybe…

Perhaps he was good at figuring out who would not report him. Who knows? I've known 4 women who were raped, held down for groping and kissing or otherwise sexually attacked. None contacted law enforcement, and two stayed in contact with the attacker. This does not surprise me.

It is understood from all surveys we are talking about averages. The ranges of different groups often overlap a lot. It irks me to no end when people criticize a survey because they are not average or people don't like a survey because some other people are too stupid to figure out not all individuals follow the…

Only under the law and that is the concept of consent (which is why I used the term "willing" and not "consent"). If you feel no 15, 16 or even 17 year olds know what they are doing, then you need to learn a little respect for other people. In the real world (the specific case I was thinking of), there is a huge…

You don't know she is in foster care. She could have been placed with another relative.

Penal code definitions are not the best places to get talking points. Where I live, Texas, the word "rape" does not appear in the penal code I have seen. It all falls under "sexual assault."