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Truth is concept. That something is "true" is an idea. The idea that something is true depends on the value system of the individual. The widely used value system of people today is science, although religion also offers a standard for judging truth. These systems are both quite stable...

Nationalized medical insurance is not free. That's a silly idea and anyone who thinks it is being proposed shows himself ignorant of the basic facts. If such a person wishes to stop looking like a fool, he should read Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind - Bernie Sanders carefully and then...

Keep Mueller on the job until we have burned the witch and the vice-witch

More garbled thinking on the right wing. The spying wasn't done by the FBI, it was done by Page, Manafort and a half-dozen other crooked money guys were were under FISA surveillance because of their long, close interactions with Russian intelligence agents. If you don't want to be watched, don't...

These secession fads are fake news created by Kremlin hackers and spread on social media as part of the information war.

"Mandate" is a latinate word meaning "command," a mandate is something the citizens command the government to do. We do have some cases of legal mandate in the form of a popular referendum which requires the passage of a specific act if enough signatures are obtained. Congressional and...

There are a number of moral issues which don't fit the simple rule that if it is immoral, it is always immoral under any circumstances or conditions. I believe that abortion is one of these. The case of a mother of three whose fourth pregnancy will cause her death if allowed to go to term is an...

Abortion just won't fit into a yes/no category. Generally, it is immoral; however, in cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother, non-abortion may be even more immoral. In any case, I am deeply skeptical about making a government (legal) decision. Women's bodies aren't state property.

As our technologies increase environmental impact to global proportions, the breadth and depth of necessary government policies has grown alongside them. Alas, in irritated reaction there has sprung up a "libertarian" movement driven by economic issues of white resentment which attempts to offer...

Advocating the overthrow of the government of the United States by force or violence is against the law. All countries have something similar on the books for obvious reasons. Well, perhaps the reasons aren't obvious to everyone. Jefferson was enamored of an extreme Whig idea that rights such...

The American South has a long history of stealing jobs from the North with promises of free land, low taxes, cheap labor, and police terrorism to prevent unions. The first big push was the textile industry which migrated South in the early 1900. Those plants subsequently moved overseas. Next...

Democracy is "rule by the 'demos'" that is, the voters. Three million more voters chose Hillary than chose Trump. Trump won in the EC, a voting block in which the number of voters represented by college members varies wildly, with voters in dink states like Wyoming have far more power to elect...

What is a "pion"?

Stupid like that all the time? The Pellagra Belt hijacked the automotive industry by offering foreign companies the chance to make money by lowering American manufacturing wages, taking multi-million dollar bribes from crooked state governors and hiring dumb crackers to bolt foreign parts together.

NEW YORK (AP) — The share of Americans who identify as white and Christian has dropped below 50 percent, a transformation fueled by immigration and by growing numbers of people who reject organized religion altogether, according to a new survey released Wednesday. Christians overall remain a...