The horse already left the barn on protecting DACA, I’m afraid. Unless the Democrats try to use it as a bargaining chip for something Trump wants, but it seems like they’ve blown that opportunity several times over already, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.

I never said it wasn’t a stupid decision the way he went about it, and Mattis leaving over it is sure to be an ill portent of things to come, but with all these years of liberals telling us we needed to get out (except for when their guy was the one doing the drone bombings and extrajudicial killings), and now we’re…

Uhh, don’t know what you’re on about, but the writers at GMG are unionized. They’re part of the Writers Guild of America. So that part of your argument is patently wrong.

Man, if you had told me that there would be a Republican president pulling troops out of quagmires that will be recorded in history as worse than Vietnam, and that liberals were actually finding fault with it, regardless of whether his reasons are misguided or not, I would tell you to fuck off and that you’re full of…

Indeed. They turned pragmatism into a swear word, and for what?

Funny, just the other day there was a Splinter article that basically agreed with Meadows, that Federal workers should more or less suck it up so Trump doesn’t get his shitty wall that won’t even get started being built until he’s out of office even if they do agree to fund it.

O’Rourke voted to waive polygraph test requirements for Customs and Border Patrol agents, which CBP was using in an attempt to root out the widespread corruption throughout the agency.

Hence why you have to qualify it with the “classical” label. Much of what classical liberalism is about would be more closely identified with certain elements of conservatism or libertarianism today. Mostly to do with the idea of the individual as sovereign and making sure the state is as small as necessary to meet…

Yeah... I’m not about to worship at the altar of malevolence, thanks.

If there exists an all powerful malevolent being, I don’t see how that would change how I live my life now. Should it choose to direct its malevolence toward me, what could I do?

I normally am not a fan of extrajudicial killings that are not in the immediate self defense of one’s self or another. However, in this case, I could be convinced to make an exception.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

I believe you would be best described as a classical liberal. You want a functional government that protects the rights and well-being of the individual, while spending the least amount necessary to do so.

Flagged and dismissed. Do better.

I for one cannot wait until fast food workers have priced themselves out of a job, are replaced by robots and self order kiosks, and the 3-5 workers left out of the 20+ originally employed are paid the wage they feel they deserve.

File this under “Well duh.” The incoming bright eyed and bushy tailed Reps who thought they were going to just change things because they think they’re in the right are about to find out that the new boss is the same as the old boss. Now, perhaps that will lead to some old guard Democrats getting successfully…

“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.” - Ricky Gervais

I don’t get why saying “stupid woman” is sexist if it’s about Theresa May. If she’s stupid, which based on them steaming ahead full with Brexit despite having no plan, that would quantify as stupid, and last I checked, no one is unsure of her gender. She’s not stupid BECAUSE she’s a woman, she’s a woman who is also…

So... sounds like he didn’t do it? Or at the very least, they can’t prove he did it in this case and no one else has come forward saying that Schwertner had acted similarly to them.

Well if Parkland is any indication, the cops won’t enter until it’s over anyway, so probably none. Remember kids, the police have zero duty to protect you, and that’s been affirmed in court.