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3 years

@JesseKellyDC So that 2022, 2024, and so on will also be fair elections. Note that 2020--yes it was perhaps the fairest election ever--took place before the recent wave of voter restriction and repression laws were passed.

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@RichLowry Guardian: Donald Trump privately admitted to losing the 2020 election even as he worked to undermine and change the results, according to two top aides who testified before the January 6 committee....“‘Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?’”

Trump privately admitted he lost 2020 election, top aides testify

Alyssa Farah and Cassidy Hutchinson tell January 6 panel former president acknowledged he had been defeated by Joe Biden

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@highbrow_nobrow @RightWingWatch If, when God speaks to you, he uses really bad grammar, maybe you ought to ask if it's really God speaking.

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@tribelaw I support Harris for president 100%. And I think Kavanaugh has been a terrible justice. But isn't the draft an example of a law that gives the government the power to make decisions about the male body? Never Trump! Harris Now!

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@murphyjm61 If Texas secedes who will pay the Social Security benefits of the 4,338,301 Texans who now receive them from the federal government? Texas: Think carefully, choose wisely!

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@greta It makes no difference politically or morally what exactly Trump was hit with. He was the victim of an assassination attempt that must be absolutely condemned. What precisely the projectile was is of purely forensic interest.

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@PDXRevYouth Fact: Mao was the greatest mass murderer in human history. New York Review of Books: “It is probably fair to say, then, that Mao was responsible for about 1.5 million deaths during the Cultural Revolution, another million for the other campaigns, and between 35 million and45

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@CoreyRobin There's no inconsistency in thinking fascism is coming in some sense, but not taking the steps you describe. If I thought a fascist was likely to be elected president I wouldn't run to another country. I'd stay here and resist, and not with guns but by organizing, politicking,

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@The_Hellenist Don't like Christianity? Fine. But when it turns out your objection is to "the Judean plague" on which Christianity is based, that's anti-Semitism, a well-known anti-democratic and ultimately genocidal ideology. That's not Hellenism; it's Hitlerism.

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@jaimeblack Chicago is home of the blues and some of its great practitioners including Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters. Quite a contribution to arts and culture if you ask me.

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@DougWahl1 Harris has to nominate a White man who is governor or senator from a swing state with a lot of electoral votes. Buttigieg, a former small-city mayor and now minor cabinet official from an unwinnable red state won't do. Cooper, gov. of NC, Shapiro, gov. of PA, or Kelly senator

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@FaceTheNation @WashArchbishop If you have any concern for Christianity at all it's impossible not to be a cafeteria Christian. Even on its face, the Bible is sprawling tome, written by many hands over many centuries, embracing two different religions in two different languages. And we know from critical

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@SebGorka No, it's not an insurrection besause these people are not trying to foil the peaceful transfer of presidential power after a fair--yes, it was fair!--election. That doesn't mean you have to agree with their cause. I don't.

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@CheriJacobus If, when God speaks to you, he uses really bad grammar, maybe you ought to ask if it's really God speaking.

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@mattyglesias The right to same sex marriage was first articulated in 1983 by Evan Wolfson, a Harvard Law School student, who formed the activist group Freedom to Marry. The group tried a number of unsuccessful messaging strategies until they hit on one that worked: "emphasizing the love and

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@Rothmus If you calculate inflation since the 18th century a 2% tax back then was likely much higher than is an 8.25% tax today. Moreover fire works are a once-a-year expenditure while in the 1700s tea was part of everyday life.

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@_salawless That's exactly why kids should go to public schools: So parents don't leave them cut off from the rest of the society they will have to live in, and leave them ignorant of the world beyond their doorstep.

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@FrankMikeDavis1 The assumption back then was that girls would be wearing skirts. So the U bar didn't get in the way of the skirt.

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@TheRichFromCali Instead why don't you tell me why you think you're right? Evidence, please.

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@JoeyMannarinoUS In this time of world crisis and war--in Israel, Ukraine, and elsewhere--and domestic challenges--of crime, gun violence, corruption and more--it's hard to think of a more ill-timed and nihilistic slogan than "Shut the entire government down." And over what? The Pentagon

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@AngryBlackLady All people--White, Black, women, men--who care about democracy and the fate of the nation must put their shoulders to the wheel for Harris. Never Trump! Harris Now!

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@Culture_Crit Because he's a genius who developed far beyond the proficient but unoriginal work he did as a child.

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@ibramxk You are quoting Lincoln out of context. Yes, he said disparaging things about Blacks. But he also said: "I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of

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@tedcruz But Jesus taught us not to pray in public for show. Matthew 6:5-6 (KJV): "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They

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@brixwe Breaking and entering and burglary charges.

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@LibertyCappy Come on buddy, we've discussed this. There are limits in the Second Amendment, which says more than just "...shall not be infringed." Here's the complete text: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear

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@davidfrum On Friday, May 23 my wife and I attended a production of Shakespear's "Julius Caesar" and came home to be told by our son about the Prigozhin quasi-coup. Life immitates art.

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@FortuneMagazine Back to my "20 year-old-brain"? I'm in my seventh decade and say "no thanks." But my 20 year-old waist would be OK.

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6 months

@LibertyCappy OK with me too: The majority of gun owners favor significant gun control. "Red flag laws, universal background checks, required permits for the purchase or possession of a gun and violent misdemeanor laws are among those that win support from gun owners...Respondents also said

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@patriottakes James 2 14-24: "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works, can faith save him?...Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone....Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith alone." Read your Bible,

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@NightDaily_ The article read as if the writer kept putting off the main point in order to keep you reading. Just the opposite of good journalism where you put the main point first. I gave up after a few paragraphs.

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10 months

@ReallyAmerican1 The Charlatans, which, by the way, is the real name of both a San Francisco pyschedelic band and an English band formed in 1988.

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@brianklaas Correct. One might also say that today all democracies--defined as governments based on majority rule--are republics--defined as governments where people elect representatives. And all republics are not democracies. There are no more republics like those of early modern Italy

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@mattyglesias Just waving a flag of another country doesn't mean that you have sworn loyalty to that country and renounced loyalty to the US. This is especially true if you are waving the flag of a country allied to the US. Would it have been wrong to wave a UK flag when that nation was

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9 months

@anyonewantchips I won't comment on Melania's talents. But she violated the terms of her visa. AP: "She was paid for 10 modeling assignments...when her visa allowed her generally to be in the U.S. and look for work but not perform paid work in the country. The...modeling assignments would have

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@The_Hellenist All due respect to women. But if you are going to argue they know things that men cannot fathom you don't want to cite such rubbish as astrology and crystals. By the way, the ancient Greeks you so much admire were very misogynistic.

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@morallawwithin C.S. Peirce. We always begin an inquiry from where we are with a collection of cognitions already formed.

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10 months

@NateSilver538 Maybe more choices isn't necessarily bad for democracy but it isn't necessarily good. It's well known that too many choices can leave people confused. And I believe its established that Nader pulled enough Florida votes in 2000 to throw the presidency to Bush jr. We don't want

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@RightHegelian Well that's one way to answer philosophers you disagree with: just say they aren't really philosophers at all and deserve no answer. But that will only work if other people accept your judgement without question. So why should they?

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@RpsAgainstTrump The Charlatans

The Charlatans (American band) - Wikipedia

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2 years

@JesseKellyDC Actually a contract remains binding even if one side breaks it. The other party can go to court and have the contract enforced. If a contract became just a piece of paper when one side breaks then contracts would be unenforceable and no one would use them.

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@focusfronting On the syllabus and in class I tell students to turn in their papers in Word format only. Word papers are very easy to edit. None the less, I still receive PDF that have to be exported to Word which messes them up. Now let me ask a question. In my introductory courses on

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@JoeyMannarinoUS OK then, here's something from the Bible for Johnson and other politicians to follow: Don't pray for show on the floor of the House. Jesus taught us not to pray in public. Here's Matthew 6:5-6 (KJV): "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love

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2 years

@RBReich If we hadn't invested in the first gulf war Saddam Hussein would have conquered the Arab oil states and established hegemony over the Middle East. So some of that $8 trillion was well spent.

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@julie_kelly2 Treason is giving aid and comfort to our enemies, not aid and comfort to our allies.

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11 months

@BillKristol As my Irish grandmother used to say: You tell 'em; I stutter! Here's hoping for bipartisan leadership in the House. It will take the luck of the Irish but maybe the time has come.

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@JohnStrandUSA Everyone convicted of a felony and sentenced to prison has to say goodby for awhile to their families. Can't do the time? Don't do the crime, which in your case was "obstruction of an official proceeding" I.E.: Attempting to foil the peaceful transrer of presidential power.

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@MichelePradoBa Michele, I wish you and the people of Brazil well in this moment of crisis. Hang in there and good luck.

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@AnnCoulter Israel and Ukraine, "random countries"? Golly I thought they were allies. And there's "no earthly reason" to send them aid? Both have been subject to bloody invasions, with large civilian casualties, by anti-American forces. Sounds like good reasons to me.

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@2ndMississippi If 14 year-old Southern boys were dreaming Pickett was the hero of that day instead of Longstreet, who sensibly and correctly told Lee that the Union position was impregnable, then there was something wrong with Southern education.

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@marklevinshow Billionaires are sometimes known for their charity, but very seldom to other billionaires.

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8 months

@mtgreenee Disgusting. But the obvious question is: How many was Trump on Epstein's island?

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10 months

@marklevinshow The recent pro-Palistinian demonstrations are not an insurrection in the sense J6 was because they did not try to foil the peaceful transfer of presidential power after a legitimate election. That said I disagree with the demonstrators demands and deplore the disorder they create

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@RadicalJesus44 Neither was Madison, the father of the Constitution, a white supremacist. In Federalist No. 54 he acknowledged that the law treated Blacks like property, but by rights they deserved equality. He wrote: "It is only under the pretext that the laws have transformed the Negroes

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@SebGorka Of course vaccinations are not 100% effective. Vaccination makes it much less likely you will get covid, and makes the disease much less severe if you do get it. So yes: you should get vaccinated too.

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@ByronDonalds Flash: a constitutional republic is a democracy. Now all democracies are also republics because they elect representatives. So "republic" and "democracy" are virtually synonymous. And all democracies have constitutions, written or un. Donalds' is a distinction wthout a difference

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Thomas J. Main

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9 months

@RpsAgainstTrump A healthy sense of self-preservation.

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1 year

@The_Hellenist The anicent Jews gave us the ideas of rules and law. They were tough fighters too as is attested to by the Book of Joshua and elsewhere in the Hebrew scriptures. As for stink, that was the norm throughout the ancient world. Marcus Aurelius complained of people who "smell of stale

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@LibertyCappy Actually yes, the 2nd Amendment has limits. First of all, all rights are limited by other rights. You may have the right to keep and bare arms but you and everyone else also has the rights to life and to "domestic Tranquility." When gun violence threatens these rights the right

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@AnnaMeierPS I agree. Long ago part of my dissertation looked at a study claiming that during the 1970s the ratio of afforbable rental units to poor households got very dramatically tighter. I showed this claim was based on a very crude error. I contacted the author of the study who told me

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@Leonarda_Jonie No sensible person says that if you are White you are automatically an Nazi. I defy you to quote a mainstream, informed figure who so claims. It sounds to my like you want an excuse to be a Nazi.

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@daviddunn177 By the way, what use is a good memory if you lie about what you remember?

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10 months

@JudiciaryGOP Here's a link to the Fact Check article finding all evidence re the $200,000 check is "consistent with the White House’s claim that these were short-term, no-interest loans."

Cherry-Picking 'Influence' Payment from James to Joe Biden - FactCheck.org

A subpoena of bank records of Biden family members has turned up a $200,000 payment in 2018 from James Biden to his brother Joe Biden, and Rep. James Comer is citing it as proof "that Joe Biden...

www.factcheck.org

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@VDAREJamesK So it turns out making propaganda kitch art for a Nazi regime isn't a road to artistic immortality. Artists take note.

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2 years

@GraffitiRadical Insulting the armed forces is not going to help develop the big majority needed to implement the serious reforms our democracy needs.

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@SethAbramson Fun fact: George Washington didn't have any children of his own either.

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@PhD_Genie Keep on keeping on.

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1 year

@marklevinshow What exactly did Smith do that is contrary to the Constitution? Please cite me the exact passage of the document that he violated.

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@RightWingWatch Just kidding? Here's Fuentes on how he uses irony to avoid responsibility for what he says: "Irony is so important for giving a lot [of], like, cover and plausible deniability for our views. . .irony is like a very important, like, linguistic and rhetorical weapon so that we

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@SimonWDC As my Irish grand mother used to say: You tell 'em; I stutter! Harris is going to be a great candidate. That's some kind of hopium for sure! Never Trump! Harris Now!

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@jonathanbfine Actually when I was at the University of Chicago in the mid-70s we did read Newton in the original. And Galileo and Euclid. And of course reading the originals doesn't imply there has been no progress. Contemporary thinkers should be read in the original too. The point is to make

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@ramzpaul The thing about human rights, like free speech, is that you are obligated to extend them to the enemy if by that is meant political adversaries. And even real enemies--people making war against you--have certain rights.

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@lewlewwaller Main Currents of Marxism by Kolakowski

Cover--Main Currents of Marxism.docx

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@julie_kelly2 Flash: When law enforcement takes material from your home pursuant to a legally obtained search warrant it's not stealing. Such action is provided for under the Fourth Amendment and is entirely lawful.

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Under the Constitution "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." The confederates levied war against the US, therefore they were traitors.

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One of the most common arguments against the CSA is that its government, the States of which it was comprised, and its armed forces were traitors who attempted to break the Union. As with their ancestors before them, they supported the current government so long as it represented

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@LibertyCappy Of course people paid taxes before the income tax was passed! The "Constitution gave Congress the power to impose taxes and other levies on the general public.... Most of these were excise taxes—taxes imposed on specific goods or services, such as alcohol and tobacco." And there

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@gdmorejon Here's a thought about death that I like better than those of Heidegger. It comes, I think, from the Mahabharata. Krishna is asked: What is the greatest miracle? Like a whip he answers: We know we must die but we live every moment as if we are immortal.

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@LibertyCappy Don't strain your poor brain: the answer is that vaccines are effective but not 100% effective. With a vaccine you are much less likely to get the disease and if you do it is more likely to be mild. Feel better now?

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Those of you who think Trump sincerely believed he won in 2020 have to read "What We Know About What Trump Knew" in The Bulwark. Trump "promoted allegations that he privately doubted or derided" and much more

What We Know About What Trump Knew

There’s no need to guess whether Trump really believed what he said about the 2020 election: just look at the record.

www.thebulwark.com

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@ChuckCallesto Lies! The Guardian: "Two Atlanta election workers who were the subject of an outlandish conspiracy theory amplified by Donald Trump were formally cleared of all wrongdoing by the Georgia state election board."

Two Georgia election workers cleared of wrongdoing in 2020 elections

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss faced harassment after Trump and Giuliani spread false claims about them

www.theguardian.com

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@SparksN123 But the Women's World Cup isn't an Olympic competition.

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1 year

@BlueandGray1864 Lee lost the war when, against the advice of his 2nd in command, he attacked head on the impregnable Union forces at Gettysburg. The greatest Civil War general was Grant, who was victorious and invented the American style of war.

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@BlueandGray1864 Lee lost the battle of Gettysburg, and the entire war, when, against the advise of his 2nd in command, Longstreet, he attacked head-on the obviously impregnable Union position. It was all downhill for the CSA after that. When it really counted Lee got things wrong. Not so great,

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@davidcinema "Metropolis"

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@aziz0nomics It's not surprising that a convicted murderer would argue that moral suasion is always ineffective. She blew away State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973 so of course she's likely to claim "Hey violence is the only way." Gandhi, and

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@EliseWoodard20 With hard copy books I use indices all the time. Somehow I feel that a book without an index isn't serious. Even with electronic books I find an index useful.

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@LibertyCappy Sex is biological Excepting a small number of people with ambiguous genitalia there are only two sexes. Gender means sex role, which isn't biological. There are lots of sex roles: John Wayne & Stan Laurel; Sophia Loren & Phyllis Diller. You don't know the difference between Sex

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"...with our slaves!"

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Happy Birthday sir! #jeffersondavis #Independence #10thamendment #CSA

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@simonateba It means, I think, doing things that are genuinely new, in the sense of not being entirely determined by the past. It's a call for innovation, or what I would describe as nonincremental change.

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@missreadit The key difference is that Jan. 6 was an attempt to foil the peaceful transfer of power, an essential principle of liberal democracy. The George Floyd riots were just that, riots, localized violence. Bad, but not an unprecedented attack on democratic legitimacy.

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@DineshDSouza Given the source of the claim that P. Pelosi's assailant was in his underware has issued a retraction, you don't have any support for that claim now, right? So why not issue a correction?

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@PushBidenLeft You're not facing up to what a "lesser evil" means. The concept is relevant only when one is facing a choice where there are no good choices and one's choice will necessarily be more or less evil. In that case who will deny that the lesser evil must be chosen? If not, a greater

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@RadicalJesus44 Why don't you just drop this slogan? No doubt it isn't meant literally but it implies a violent act and we could really do with less violent rhetoric these days.

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@florianederer Working your way through a great book to understand its argument trains you in just that: Understanding a complex and unfamiliar argument. If you only read text book summaries, that's all you'll be able to read: simplified texts. Also, textbook treatments differ. How will you

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@marklevinshow Trump explicitly rejected the Declaration: "But It's not true because all men and all people are not created equal" When those embarrassing words became public Trump reversed himself. Who believes he is sincere?

Trump Hasn't Always Thought All People Are Created Equal

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@The_Hellenist Flash: Christians acknowledge only one god, the God of Abraham. If you want to go back to paganism and worship the driver of the chariot of the sun, ligntning tossers, earth shakers, nymphs, etc. feel free. But don't expect us to follow you.

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@JoshuaLWatson For me it's the Politics. Its take down of Socrates' plan to abolish the nuclear family is hilarious. Aristotle asks: won't people figure out who their real parents are just just by looking? And on and on. A real laugh!

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@RonFilipkowski Did Melania say anything about being an illegal immigrant? AP: "She was paid for 10 modeling assignments...when her visa allowed her generally to be in the U.S. and look for work but not perform paid work in the country. The...modeling assignments would have been outside the

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@JoeyMannarinoUS If Nixon had presidential immunity why did Ford bother to pardon him? It's precisely because Nixon, just like all other presidents, did not have immunity that Ford pardoned him just as Nixon had desperately wanted.

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Thomas J. Main

@ThomasJMain

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@SethAbramson I support Harris as nominee. For ticket balancing, electoral vote, resume reasons her V.P. should be a White man from a large swing state who is a senator, governor, or otherwise widely experienced. Buttigieg, from a red state and a former small-city mayor and minor cabinet

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