There is a fascinating documentary series (I think on Netflix) with Remini about Scientology.

This is the first I’m hearing of this ascension stuff. That is scary. It makes these guys sound more like a religious cult.

... so the implication is that his ex-wife’s sneaky gold digger strategy was to marry him... stay married to him for a decade and have kids with him (so that she could never be entirely free of him for the rest of her life due to their shared kids)... and then the trap is sprung? Uh huh.

That was when they thought the U.S. Supreme Court would acknowledge a right to an abortion if they brought the right case, which is what happened in Roe v. Wade. Today, a doctor who tried that is going to prison, and he/she would have no hope that the U.S. Supreme Court or any red State Supreme Court would overturn…

Let’s not act like the doctors or medical service providers are at fault here. Nothing in the hippocratic oath says they have to risk imprisonment by acting like Robin Hood in a State where criminal charges await anyone involved in an abortion that doesn’t fit the narrow statutory window (not at all based on…

AP Courses are not mandatory. And you don’t have to take an AP Black Studies course if you don’t want to. You can take any number of different AP courses. Banning AP Black Studies or trying to pressure the College Board to delete portions of the purely optional AP Black Studies curriculum is racist. The only kids takin…

Review Marbury vs. Madison (1803):

I wonder if it’s a subconscious effect of what Trump has done to the GOP, where being Republican has been re-defined as being a Trump sycophant and anyone who doesn’t support Trump is a “RINO”. There may be something of a subconscious need in folks on the left to make a point of distinguishing their support from GOP…

The phrase “as a matter of law” is a feature of judicial rulings. That’s literally where it comes from. The legislative branch writes the laws (with the executive signing off or via override). The executive branch enforces the laws. However, the interpretation of what the law IS remains the exclusive jurisdiction of…

Then why cite that article if you’re making up your own theory that isn’t based on the limitations of the law acknowledged in that article? Neither the executive nor the legislative branches dictate what anything is as a matter of law. Only the courts do that.  If the Court rules it’s not approved anymore, the FDA…

Well he started his political career as an Illinois State Senator in 1997, then U.S. Senator for Illinois from 2005, then U.S. President from 2008 to 2016. So that’s at least twenty years of politics. So presumably somewhere in there was the 10 years that sucked, where they were adjusting to the political career she…

The midwife should face charges. She was not qualified to veto a doctor’s treatment decision on a level 21 bilirubin jaundice case on an infant. And she was apparently the one who convinced those parents that her advice trumped that of the doctor on the treatment of a dangerous medical condition. So much so that the…

You’re missing the legal significance of the loss of FDA approval. And that Slate article was not saying the FDA could say they are still deeming that medication FDA approved - it would be unapproved as a matter of law. That article only says the FDA could use prosecutorial discretion to not use its enforcement powers…

1) the police rather than the prosecutor said there was a “racial component”. 2) the prosecutor clarified there was no hate crime charge being alleged. 3) the maximum sentence for the relevant hate crime is lower there. 4) “racial component” does not mean a claim of “racial bias”. 5) it appears that Yarl described…

By saying that the 82 games missed count toward his suspension total but will only be used to subtract 20 of his 30 suspension days they are, in fact, saying his suspension is 92 games.  Either they’re suspension days or not.  If they count toward suspension days, then his suspension is effectively 92 games.

The Malice at the Palace resulted in a 30 game suspension for Stephen Jackson. It also resulted in a suspension for the rest of that season for Ron Artest (86 games including playoff games missed), which is the longest suspension in NBA history (short of being banned altogether, which is usually reserved for point…

In other words, they moved to expel the white woman not because of what she did but because they needed to expel her as well as political cover for expelling the two black representatives.  If you listen to the audio, they’re there trying to explain why walking from here to there was sufficient for expulsion and why…

The FBI confirming that no federal criminal offense occurred is not a statement that no crime occurred. There’s no evidence of a conspiracy so far involving interstate travel or a nexus to the U.S. It didn’t occur on U.S. property. It’s basically a murder subject to Mexico’s criminal jurisdiction. Mexico needs to…

You’re a troll. That’s the only reason you would intentionally sidestep the entire point of my response: where are the denials from Feinstein, her staff, her colleagues, or the staff of her colleagues, all of whom actually deal with her?  Your denials are meaningless, and bringing up Clinton when it’s absolutely…

First that’s at least four different people (plural senators and staffers) providing statements off the record that she is suffering from a rapidly deteriorating mental state and is mentally unfit to serve rather than a singular source. Ignoring that, how about trusting the failure of a single colleague or Feinstein…