"The Donald" is the gift that keeps on giving - he's working overtime to provide the Democrats with enough political "ammunition" to last a lifetime!`
Given that the majority of American voters have already decided that he is unfit to be President, the real "fireworks" will come if the...
The Midterm Elections Should Be Interesting
Given "The Donald's" public approval ratings in the 30's, despite the DOW soaring record highs, I doubt the Republicans have anything in their "bag of tricks" to save them from the 2018 Midterms!
Although Trump name won't be on the ballot until 2020...
Trump and "s***hole" countries
With Trump as President, many of those highly educated potential students and immigrants from "s***hole" countries will be having second thoughts about making the US their first choice!
Given America's current opioid epidemic, inner city blight/crime, rural...
Ben Sasse to Trump: Are you 'recanting' oath to protect the First Amendment?
The Republican majorities in the House and Senate, with a few isolated exceptions, have assumed the role of Trump "yes-men" to provide the President with "wins," rather than asserting themselves as a co-equal branch...
Trump and Repub congress ignore Puerto Rico humanitarian crisis
If the actions of the Trump Administration in Puerto Rico matched his rhetoric, there would be no need for this thread!
Mao as not Russia's choice as the communist leader in China - largely because he had never gone to Moscow to study and return as a revolutionary under Soviet control.
Mao, for good reason, was suspicious of Stalin's motives and there is some question as to whether the Russians were planning to...
An individual mandate coupled with subsidies for private insurance as a means for universal healthcare was considered the best way to win the support of the Senate because it had been included in prior bipartisan reform proposals. The concept goes back to at least 1989, when the conservative The...
Approximately 1.5 million Americans (2008) are already medical tourists, going out of the country every year in search of more cost effective medical procedures - draining $billions and jobs out of the American economy!
That may serve as an option for the wealthier classes, but not for the...
Global Warming Invites Policy Changes
Never fear - all those new coal mining jobs will make "America Great Again" and pay for those environmental disasters like Hurricane Harvey!
The irony is that those states that supported Trump in 2016 are the ones that are at greatest risk for the negative...
Trump "Tearing U.S. Apart"?
If 56% of the nation already thinks that "Donald J." is "tearing the country apart," what will that number be after his Administration starts arresting and deporting a million "Dreamers?"
Given that Trump just provided a convicted Sheriff Arpaio with a...
Given that Arpaio may never have served a day of jail time because of his advanced age, Trump should have at least waited until the courts imposed a sentence before resorting to a presidential pardon.
Given that the acceptance of a presidential pardon has been interpreted by the Supreme Court...
The more the OP focuses on the Democratic Party's KKK ties , the more it begs the question as to why the Republican Party currently controls politics in those same Southern states?
Its the Republican Party that is now in a state of disarray, with the President openly criticizing the GOP House...
Identity Politics Issues
It is difficult to understand why so many Christians could support a President who has publically stated that fails to see the need to ask God's forgiveness. from sin.
According to Donald Trump, he makes ever effort not to make mistakes - in reality, by never...
"blü 2" is free to question the accuracy of Paul and the Gospels in depicting the "historical Jesus," but for many of us they provide a credible account of His life.
With the total destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman legions in AD 70, the dispersal of the Jewish peoples and centuries of...
Conversely, if the historical Jesus did not exist, a motley crew of individuals have perpetrated the greatest hoax in recorded history perpetuated over two millennium.
What evidence is "blü 2" prepared to produce that the "historical Jesus" was part of a massive conspiracy?
How much did white "Christian" religion promote hatred and black slavery?
If one reads "General Lee's Army," one is struck by the troubling fact that the Confederacy was much more religious than its more secular counterparts from the North, and that much of the South's military leadership...