Breathess stories about Muslims fighting extremism by promoting moderation in their home countries have become so commonplace, and so cheesy, that they’re a cliché. It’s especially bad since they look like sellouts merely by being praised by Americans! What if Americans went on Arab television channels for analogous, equal ridiculous, self-promotional opportunities?
The US Supreme Court rules 5-4 against death-row inmates who didn’t want to be executed with a toxin that causes excrutiating pain. The reason given by one justice: they failed to offer a better method of killing them. Which prompts the question: since when are prisoners responsible for figuring out the best way to execute them?
Writing in the dissent to the decision granted gays and lesbians the right to marry, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia urged us to “ask a hippie.” A hippie? IN 2015? Has Scalia been outside since 1974?
The man accused of the mass shooting of nine worshipers in a Charleston, South Carolina church faces an array of charges. Considering that he faces nine death-penalty counts, is there really any point to larding on additional counts, other than making ourselves feel better about ourselves? At a certain point, redundant justice becomes ludicrous.
Normally at odds over everything, Congressional Republicans cooperated with President Obama. Again. Once more, it was a jobs-killing free trade ageeement, the TPP. Why is it that the only time the two parties get anything done is in order to screw us over?
There are 28 declared and likely-to-declare Republican presidential candidates, a dozen of whom might be viable. On the Democratic side, there are 3, of whom only one, Hillary Clinton, stands a chance. Democrats ought to be ashamed of the lack of democracy in their party, which hasn’t had a contested primary since 2008, yet they’re making fun of the GOP “Clown Car” instead.
Many municipalities across the United States charge prison inmates for the cost of their own imprisonment, often at rates similar to those charged by hotels. When they get out, most cannot pay because they’re indigent, so they’re rearrested, and rejailed for nonpayment, and charged even more.
Many lefties, me included, won’t vote for Hillary Clinton because she supported the Iraq War, a mistake for which sbe has never apologized, and has doubled down upon with her actions destroying Libya, now a failed state. But some self-described liberals are willing to overlook this egregious crime of morality and politics.
Months after declaring her presidential candidacy and decades after entering political life, Hillary Clinton delivered a speech in Roosevelt Island, New York in which she came out as a liberal. Given that this is a major departure from her history as a right-wing Democrat, how can progressives who have walked the walk all along deal with this leftie-come-lately
Bankers issue student loans to 17-year-old kids. Who’s more irresponsible: the bankers who take a reckless risk? Or the 1 out of 7 impoverished students who default on their obligations?
