Of a sort.

There are different forms of slavery. All of them are terrible, but not equally so. Forcing someone to work for you (on penalty of imprisonment) is slavery, even if it’s compensated. Nobody’s saying that it would be as bad as the form of slavery that used to be practiced in this country.

I wouldn’t be so cavalier with young people’s time. In my mind, there is only one thing that the state should be able to actively force you to do just by virtue of your citizenship, and that’s jury duty.

Agreed. In the case of Sessions, that one thing is “asshole.”

This woman has been giving just terrible advice since she took over the column. Just awful.

That analogy makes no sense. And I’m aware how biology works.

It’s that last step (“Therefore it can’t be...”) that isn’t based in the realm of logic. How does not being able to prevent one’s ability to do something take away fault? I have the ability to get in a car accident anytime I want, but that doesn’t mean that the fault can’t possible lie with the other driver (or in…

To be fair, isn’t everything Carson does kind of half-hearted?

Just repeating it doesn’t make it true.

Are you 13?

Men have the ability to not get someone pregnant if they don’t want to. It’s called a condom.

I really wish there was a non-sexist term for p*ssy. It would be so very useful.

Some of those people probably don’t actually exist. Sandra Allen James, Carolyn Moffet and Eileen Wellstone, for example, all appear to have originated in one single blog entry by “Capitol Hill Blue,” a website that is likely one guy with many sock puppets, and which has faked stories about CIA informants and…

What did the Lewinsky affair have to do with Whitewater?

The man is terrible, but the argument against the death penalty is about the nature of the state, not the nature of the crime.

I’m fine with him staying in through the final few primaries, but I agree, he needs to tone it down. I understand that he never considered the Democratic Party as anything more than a rental, but he shouldn’t be ripping up the floor boards as his lease expires.

If independents want to vote in the primary, they can change their registration to the party for which they want to vote. It’s not like there’s a fee or anything.

You’re not a lawyer, are you? No lawyer should ever be denigrated for taking a criminal defense case. Criminal defense lawyers protect our system as much as they protect their clients. If she volunteered for the case, then that’s even better, because it sounds like a difficult one.

Both are tax policy, so yeah the comparison is appropriate.

Does your keyboard/phone not have capital letters?