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As an example, even if he proposes the amendment, if Congress doesn't ratify it, The Washington Post will rate that as a broken promise. Obama promised to close Guantonimo, but because Congress put up barriers to prevent it, The Washington Post actually deemed it a promise kept, but unwanted...

Generalizations are just that. They are not intended, nor should they be construed to cover every possible variant. I generally (see what I did there) try to take the pain to point that out in most of my writings when talking in generalities, so as to head off the inevitable accusations of...

Cursive proficiency is not assessed or even addressed at all in the standardized tests of Common Core, therefore the ability to write in cursive is deemed non-essential to graduate and thus isn't even taught in more and more school districts. Cursive writing was invented for a specific purpose...

Winter solstice, y'all. If you're into pagan rituals this must be a great moment for you. But for the rest of us, the days are just gonna keep getting longer and the nights shorter. Yay.

Long before I became an expediter I took my first journalism classes in high school, and in college between two masters degrees in music I managed to squeeze in many classes in journalism, as well as advertising and marketing classes. While the journalism and advertising courses also furthered...

I've read many sociology books. Social science and the study of human nature has been an interest of mine for as long as I can remember. Political views vary greatly in rural areas, but not really all that much. You have far right and far left even in Midtown Manhattan. I was born in a very...

The Wikipedia entry on Slate will tell you pretty much what you need to know. I don't read it daily, by any stretch, but I do read it often enough. There is some good journalism there, done by good journalists with integrity. John Dickerson, for example, is the current host of Face the Nation on...

Then how do you explain the vast political ideological differences between densely populated areas and everywhere else? And it's not just in this country, either. The differences are all over the world. If a Progressive Democrat goes and lives on a farm in Iowa for five years, will they return a...

It's rank hypocrisy and shows a total lack of journalistic ethics. The Electoral College is the greatest thing since sliced bread when if benefits the Left, but it's an outdated scourge on society when it doesn't. News Flash: The Popular Vote is the Same Way with the Left. All under the watchful...

Well, yeah, that's pretty obvious. But it's just one of many of the little differences that end up causing the various ways in which city dwellers and everyone else think, act and lives their lives. If you live in the city, you go to the grocery store every day, or close to it, because you can...

And on the Electoral College... This is pretty funny.. BIAS ALERT: Slate switches from defense of Electoral College to calling it a tool of white supremacy

As an example of the one of the little differences between dense urban peoples and everybody else, only 25% of greater metro New York City residents age 16 to 70 have a driver's license. It's only 35% in Chicago, and 53% in Los Angeles. It's above 90% outside of the urban areas. Interestingly...

Direct-democracy is, yes. Direct-democracy works best in smaller regions where everyone is of the same basic culture and are of a similar mindset with the same basic values. Smallish countries, states, counties, cities and towns. But even in large states where there are great differences...

Me thinks the DNS server needs to be updated since the server change a few days ago. Lawrence or JoshM will know for sure.

I know it is. ;)

Aside from the fact the "political rectitude" is an oxymoron, no, China doesn't appear to be intimidated by Trump, or anyone else. Appearing to be intimidated by anyone would make them look weak, at least in their own eyes. China's actions are not politically correct at all, nor is it intended...

"Go f*ck yourself, China. Go ahead, keep it, ya big baby. But you're gonna pay for this yoooge!" Trump is sick and tired of China screwing us over for years, from everything from currency manipulation, on trade, and with China thinking it can steal our technology with abandon. With that Tweet...

Yep, that's the term, and yep, they're against it. And it would need to cover everything from the price of a heart transplant to an angioplasty to the price of a Tylenol and the prices of medical equipment, all of which has become a golden goose riding a gravy train. And, it would also need to...

In a van, generally speaking, whenever you get a load over the weekend it's a bonus. There are just too many businesses, manufacturing in particular, that do not work on the weekends. BTW, Happy birthday! :t3310: