Apparently 14 states and approximately 50 local jurisdictions have enacted bans on sexual orientation conversion therapy for minors.
List of U.S. jurisdictions banning conversion therapy - Wikipedia
These laws and ordinances have been challenged in courts, with varying outcomes. However, to...
Will the flammable wave persuade the buzz-side pillbox to abandon his nuclear weapons program?
If you say "no," then what, if anything, do you believe will be accomplished by the upcoming summit between these two laughable, frightful, obese oxygen-wasters?
The HHS page describing the final draft of a new rule for the Title X family planning program states:
"The final rule ensures compliance with statutory program integrity provisions governing the program and, in particular, the statutory prohibition on funding programs where abortion is a method...
One does not have to dig deeply through the political threads here to find claims that seem to me to be expressions of paranoid delusions, i.e., claims of invisible corruption among elected officials, "legal bribery," a secret "oligarchy" and unnamed corporations controlling the government...
Yesterday I was reminded me of a story a friend related to me, which I have mentioned on RF once before.
I have a friend -- let's call her Lisa -- who has sometimes told me of her painful and difficult childhood. Her hardships often were largely a consequence of the fact that her father was an...
After hearing the first released song, Where Are We Now?, from David Bowie's 2013 album "The Next Day," I only initially sampled a couple of the other songs from it, and decided I wasn't going to like this work very much. I just couldn't find the melody in Where Are We Now?
Later I did...
As noted in a brief segment of Morning Edition from NPR News, all of the Democrats who have to date declared their candidacy for President have promised that they would not "take" money from corporate PACs or Super PACs. I ask: What is accomplished by such a promise? I ask that you listen to...
Do you support the Stop STUPIDITY Act, or a similar bill?
This bill would keep the government running in the case of a lapse in funding by automatically renewing government funding at the same levels as the previous fiscal year, with adjustments for inflation. The Stop STUPIDITY (Shutdowns...
A 2009 Report by the Congressional Research Service cites evidence by which to conclude that Representative Nancy Pelosi is correct: the border wall that Trump desperately wants funding for in order to fulfill his campaign promise and for which he is "proud" to inflict immense pain on the entire...
What did Trump mean when he said during the December 11 meeting with Pelosi and Schumer at the White House, “I will take the mantle. I will shut it down, I’m not going to blame you for it" Trump reverses, says Dems to blame for shutdown
Emblematic of his perpetual dishonesty, only a couple of...
The hypothetical scenario:
By the end of next week, several major airports have essentially closed or severely reduced flights and services due to insufficient numbers of air traffic controllers and/or TSA agents; customer lines are miles long in most major airports, delays and cancellations of...
NY Times has reported that Democrats employed Russian-style fake news and false flag efforts during the 2017 contest between Roy Moore and Doug Jones.
I link to Newsmax stories here, which provides links to the Times pages, because many people often run out of NY Times stories each month...
The following presents a few facts on unauthorized immigrants and immigration in the US. Many of these facts have been noted on divers threads here, but two Wikipedia articles conveniently collect and cite references for them.
Research shows that illegal immigrants increase the size of the...
What's wrong with a Continuing Resolution to fund the government, to pay employees and fulfill obligations to contractors, and to avoid the imminent and present dangers that result from a non-functioning federal government, including essential services being provided by unpaid employees?
If you...
There seems to be the persistent idea among Trump sycophants that a wall along the border between the US and Mexico will be effective for something good and worthwhile. This is a false idea, as sufficiently spelled out in two brief articles here:
This Is Why Anti-Refugee Fences Don't Work...
The arrest of Paul Whelan is Putin's test of Trump's loyalty to him. Trump will naturally respond by attempting to act in his own financial interest, especially in light of Russian krompromat on him, which was well established even well before the events of this fall. E.g., see these July 2018...
According to a study conducted by Andre Perry, Jonathan Rothwell and David Harshbarger for the Brookings Institute, homes in majority-Black neighborhoods are valued at about half the price as comparable homes in neighborhoods with no Black homeowners. Differences in the structural features of...
Over the course of US history, when an incumbent President has run for a second term, he has won more than often than suffering defeat. There would seem to be a variety of plausible reasons for this trend. Of course, Trump is a different matter in numerous ways. Besides all the other ways, the...
And his refusal to exhibit any moral fiber by sanctioning Saudi Arabia over the horrific MbS-engineered torture and killing of US resident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is probably just a ruse to fatten his own pockets by way of unconstitutional foreign emoluments.
To wit:
When President Trump...
I did a search for the term “addict” in thread titles here, and found some 14 threads started during the last year with titles containing the words “addicted” or “addiction”. These terms are commonly used, and I would like for you to be as specific as you can about what you mean by such terms...