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Orange sky was madness inducing. Not just because of the color, but also because it was very darkening and made it feel like dusk all day. My uncle was evacuated from his home in Oakhurst. Amazingly beautiful place. When it's not on fire. I think there's some reluctance in California to pour...

The recent Smithsonian Channel documentary, "The General Was Female?", piqued my interest for a few reasons. It attempted to solve a historical mystery using ancient DNA, and involved identifying the remains of Casimir Pulaski, a Polish cavalryman who served not only in Poland, but also in...

LeBrok, there's one clarification I'd like to make before focusing on one aspect of your previous response to me in particular. Clarification: Read what I wrote in context with its previous sentence, and I think it's clear that by "none" I mean "no slaves." By your later comment "try to find...

Freedom never means freedom from consequences, for anybody. A lot of people from conservative Christian communities, for example, make the difficult decision to remove themselves from the communities, get shunned, and have to find themselves new support groups. I'm absolutely comfortable with...

Do you disagree that these are all rights afforded to the individuals who make up these communities? I mean, do you want to put in any bans on the Amish for similar practices? This is tangential. Presumably, everybody here supports bans on threats of honor killings, regardless of why they...

How do you define "gender equality" other than equality of rights? Those of us against burka bans support the rights of both men and women to choose their clothing, so such rights are equal.

Private companies are fully within their rights to enforce a dress code. Your rights to freedom of speech and religion do not override your contract with your employer. The EU court got it right this time.

Not really. Sure, he could theoretically win states (like Vermont) where all write-ins count, or states (like California) where he is on the list of official write-in candidates, but I doubt there are enough states like that for him to win outright. And he needs to win outright to win. If the...

McMullin is not on the New York ballot, but a write-in vote for him would count: https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/download/law/OfficialPresidentialWrite-Ins2016.pdf If you write in somebody not on that list, your vote will count only as "scattering".

There is no statistical possibility that New York could flip the election, much less a possibility that one voter in New York could flip the state. I'd argue that voting 3rd party, or even not voting, in such a state would send a louder message than voting for the lesser evil, because it would...

As a third party supporter, perhaps I can give relatively neutral insight into why people find Trump honest and Clinton dishonest, despite Clinton getting her facts correct more often. Perception of Clinton's dishonesty comes from the perception that she says one thing but believes another...

Polls in the USA often include breakdowns by race, but this is the first one I've seen break it down by European ancestry. From BuzzFeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-and-the-white-vote The article didn't include every ancestry they asked for, or that was volunteered, but they...

Really? I thought he did alright. It was a 15 minute interview, and he didn't really say anything that was different than what he's said before. Basically: (1) Careful with direct intervention against ISIS, don't want to exacerbate the problem like with Iraq or Libya or Syria or... etc. (2)...

Nothing bad.

Former Governor of New Mexico, running for President as a Libertarian for the second time. He got 1% of the vote in 2012 but is performing better in polls (~10% or so) this time. I'm supporting him. I posted this earlier, a pretty good intro put out by the campaign...

You're voting for Trump because of Voltaire's views on Christianity? I suppose I've heard worse reasons.

Not exactly. See the article "Nope, It Was Always Already Wrong" by Robert Blaskiewicz. Don't trust Robert Blaskiewicz? Research the history of the term yourself.

Ah. Maybe you can sit through this ad at least? It's pretty good: http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/30/is-this-gary-johnsonbill-weld-spot-the-g

Go for it! May as well cast a vote if you're going to vote in downballot races anyway. Plus Gary Johnson is reasonable, classy, and experienced, and he's got probably the strongest candidate of any party as his running mate (the extremely popular former MA Gov. Bill Weld). If I have one...

The history here isn't quite correct. Although "United Kingdom" was sometimes used colloquially after union with Scotland, the official name from 1707-1800 was "Great Britain." "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" became official after official union with Ireland in 1801. Prior to that...