And you can guarantee that their beliefs will stay the same, that there won’t be any change.

Even Obama didn’t try single payer because DEMOCRATS in the House would have rejected it. The GOP’s demise isn’t going to bring in the era of floursihing progressivism.

It does matter if its the state or the federal government. Thats the whole point of federalism. A mandate that comes from the federal government is much more intrusive on individual rights than a mandate that occurs at the state level, or at a local level. With states, you can move if you find it too intrusive, you…

I wonder what your stance would be on Citizens United. In part, the logic of Citizen’s United decision is very similar to the argument you use here to defend Facebook’s policy.

He is the most bloodthirsty or amateurish strategist in history. For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something that he could set on fire. As a soldier he is a bad politician and as a politician is an equally bad soldier. The gift he possesses is the gift to lie with…

The fact of the matter is that in this country, gun control began with trying to restrict guns from the hands of black people. A common trope perpetuated was that they were prone to violence and couldn’t be trusted with guns. If you look at the gun control debate today, the same arguments are used by people who want…

Where would the trial have taken place? Could you reasonably assure the safety and security of all those involved in the trial, or would their safety be compromised for life? Could you have assured that Bin Laden we would have been able to be taken alive?

I don’t think someone named “Castro” is going to be nominated as VP

1) But the Iranian regime is our enemy. Many of their acts are directly opposed to our national interest and so yes they are our enemy.

The problem with your position is that to drive them out of town, you need to have majority of the vote in America. The fact is that most people are either supportive of the people who voted for the Iraq War, don’t care about their vote, or are willing to overlook it. The number of people who prescribe to your…

It has not be internally consistent, not historically consistent. The idea that fiction with some history in it can only make sense when the history is accurate is just nonsense. There is just no obligation for it.

No.

Do you think there is a difference between a history book and a novel. A history book has to be accurate. A novel, even if it has a historical setting, has absolutely no obligation to be historically accurate. Nope. Zero.

Just because something is offensive to some people, doesn’t mean that it is bad in a moral sense.

You know the whole physics in Star Wars doesn’t hold up. But does that mean that Star Wars is bad? Star Wars has no obligation to have physics that is accurate in this world. It only has to be internally consistent.

1) So what?

Except that Harry Potter is briming with religious allegory: I mean in the seventh book you have Harry, who, out of love, sacrifices himself to save the rest of the wizarding, is then resurrected and goes on to defeat evil. Where could Rowling possibly have gotten such an idea? Its not like there is already a story…

No it doesn’t

What utter nonsense. As someone whose entire family is made up of immigrants, this is so far from the truth. The US accepts more than 1 million legal immigrant every year. They are mostly from Asian countries (China, India, Philippines) or from Latin America. There are work visas for skilled immigration, but their is…

Unless words in your world means something entirely different from their regular usage, then no it wasn’t perfectly obvious.