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There is nothing radical about a woman wanting autonomy over her body. There is no such thing as a post birth abortion program or procedure, so that dog don't hunt. Abortion rights have been increasingly restricted over the last 10 years, so it's not the "radicals on the left" (you know the ones advocating for equal rights) who are creating the action that the "equal and opposite reaction" that Alabama just approved.

'Buried' report suggests limited economic damage from carbon tax Saskatchewan paid for a report that suggested a federal carbon tax would shave less than a tenth of a point off the economic growth rate — and then sat on the results "Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Environment paid for a third-party study that suggested a federal carbon tax would do little economic damage — and then sat on the results. Dated October 2017, a Navius Research report found much to like in the province’s own plans for limiting emissions. But its economic modelling didn’t predict economic catastrophe if Ottawa imposed its carbon backstop on Saskatchewan. The province later commissioned another report that did, and announced the results with much fanfare at a press conference in June 2018." https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/buried-report-suggests-limited-economic-damage-from-carbon-tax?fbclid=IwAR2iU-OZXOuJKNYlVvCKNR6xgKVWq18-NjwdvVY8XVL_-G1p8X9Yvh-6WSY

AT&T promised 7,000 new jobs to get tax break—it cut 23,000 jobs instead AT&T also cut capital spending despite promising $1 billion capital boost. "AT&T has cut more than 23,000 jobs since receiving a big tax cut at the end of 2017, despite lobbying heavily for the tax cut by claiming that it would create thousands of jobs. AT&T in November 2017 pushed for the corporate tax cut by promising to invest an additional $1 billion in 2018, with CEO Randall Stephenson saying that "every billion dollars AT&T invests is 7,000 hard-hat jobs. These are not entry-level jobs. These are 7,000 jobs of people putting fiber in ground, hard-hat jobs that make $70,000 to $80,000 per year." The corporate tax cut was subsequently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump on December 22, 2017. The tax cut reportedly gave AT&T an extra $3 billion in cash in 2018." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/att-promised-7000-new-jobs-to-get-tax-break-it-cut-23000-jobs-instead/?fbclid=IwAR2J55Zud3KMerd3MeJFypnNmvwVidmP4u85X6dhAqJvkuxNN870i2o8rZ8

First of all, please provide a source for your data as I cannot find anything that resembles those numbers. Secondly, a 2-month aberration (if true) does not discount a 100 year warming trend. It's like pointing to George Burns and saying "See! Smoking is good for you!"

Durham will find that the investigation was done above board, but Barr will take it upon himself (again) to provide the summary which will read exactly how Trump wants it to read. The public will likely not get to see the actual Durham findings.

At least we'll have the answer to the question: "Is it possible for Jon Ryan's punting leg to get tired?"

This is hopefully my last comment on this. People say this like it is something we already have and they're afraid of losing it. We don't - we can't utter threats, we can't libel people and we can't yell fire in a theatre among a whole lot of other things we can't say or do. It's really a disingenuous talking point; the goal of which is to let people with power retain their power through whatever speech necessary. If you pay attention to the loudest whiners about this, it's usually white men who are so incapable of articulating messages humanely that they need the protection of so called "free speech" that has never existed in the way they thought it did.

I hope so. Yes. Dems will win either way.

Words. Matter. I don't blame others for what I write. Also, there is no First Amendment in Canada.

I would think a reasonable person would be too horrified by the amount of Neo-nazi organizations in North America than to respond by posting a list of historic communist and socialist organizations (some with the sole purpose of countering nazism). Some people would find that telling.

I have yet to read of any politician running on a platform to ban the First Amendment, so I suspect this is hyperbole. I believe free speech has limits and acknowledge that determining these limits is problematic. Some Democratic countries have already managed to determine some pretty reasonable limits that don't result in "throwing away free speech". Equating the most violent, disgusting and demeaning word in the history of America to a toothache is something you may want to reconsider. https://aaregistry.org/story/******-the-word-a-brief-history/

White person using the N word. Not an extreme position when you are advocating for total free speech. Unless you are suggesting that there should be limits to free speech. Anyway, go ahead and answer rather than filibustering (you knew what the question asked).

Or it's the 10,001st reason not to as he's just trying to distract people from the real issues. I do appreciate your attempt to lighten things up around here, though.

Mark answered the first point quite properly - no sand required. You just have to look at the historic deficits that Republicans and Conservatives have piled up to know that deficit financing isn't necessarily what "the left" automatically does. To say otherwise is dishonest. As for honesty in politics, I am paraphrasing what Orwell said. I truly do think that there are honest politicians who are in public service for all the right reasons and to think otherwise is too cynical a viewpoint for me to stay interested in politics. The cause/result you suggest is too puzzling for me to ponder or reply to because it's kind of insane. Question about free speech: Do you support the right of someone to walk up to a person of colour and call them the n-word?

These are the words of someone who seems overly defensive about their position. I never jump to that hyperbole, but there are plenty of admitted nazis and neo-nazi's to go around. North America[edit] American Nazi Party – United States Aryan Brotherhood of Texas – United States Aryan Brotherhood - United States Aryan Guard – Canada Aryan Nations – United States and Canada Atomwaffen Division - United States Christian Identity - United States The Daily Stormer - United States Hammerskins – United States and Canada Heritage Front – Canada Identity Evropa - United States National Alliance – United States National Socialist Movement – United States National Socialist Vanguard – United States National Vanguard – United States Nationalist Front – United States NSDAP/AO – United States Odinia International - United States Renegade Tribune - United States Resistance Records The Right Stuff - United States Nationalist Front of Mexico[1] – Mexico Traditionalist Worker Party – United States Vanguard America – United States White Aryan Resistance – United States National Synarchist Union - Mexico

Fair enough. Tyrion yes, but Greyworm's love story is over and I don't expect he'll have any significance (nor should he) in the finale. And for those who might mention Jon Snow - all I can say is that Jon Snow is the Rick Grimes of GOT.

I watch Maher every week, but I don't always agree with him. I also think punching Nazi's in the face is totally acceptable. Since when does socialism mean you have to run a deficit? I don't believe that's in the "Socialism for Dummies" book on my shelf, how does your's read? Orwell recognized that things were complicated and political speech was inherently dishonest. He also wrote that Stalin was more aligned with the right than he was with socialism and he recognized that the masses could be tricked by fancy words and twisting of truths into supporting autocracies which end up totalitarian - without free speech of any kind. Your capacity for irony would be amazing if I thought you recognized it.

Am I the only one who feels I've already watched the finale? There's not an interesting character left who's name isn't Arya and although Danny acted horribly (to put it mildly), this was a very reasonable end to the story. Too harsh?

"It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense “Left”. Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was TE Lawrence." George Orwell. TE Lawrence died in 1935, so it kind of makes sense that the right would need a socialist's writings to appropriate as they can't find any intelligent life in their own circles. Can't wait to hear the Chomsky stuff now.

I'm suggesting that the right might want a different author in their corner than Orwell as I'm sure he'd have a lot to say about it if he were alive today. You can use all the Anne Coulter you want, but if you want to leverage my boi, you better read this first. “And the only regime which, in the long run, will dare to permit freedom of speech is a socialist regime. If Fascism triumphs I am finished as a writer — that is to say, finished in my only effective capacity. That of itself would be a sufficient reason for joining a socialist party.” – George Orwell, “Why I Joined the Independent Labour Party”

What I find "Orwellian" is the right's increasing use of the word "Orwellian". George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.