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America's founding is liberalism. Someone other than God's anointed king ruling the people? Rights are inherent rather than doled about by the crown as it deems fit? The people choosing their own leaders? Along the way we added more liberal ideas like allowing more white males to vote, ending...

We already have socialized health care in the form of allowing employers to deduct from taxes the cost of providing health insurance but not taxing that coverage benefit as income to the employee (and more recently allowing payment of premiums by employees pre-tax). So even before you talk...

Arkansas doesn't recognize Columbus Day. We'd have to add it to get rid of it. Lee day has been moved to October, not eliminated just no longer set to be the same day as MLK day. Confederate Flag Day is still on the books in Arkansas. It's the Saturday before Easter Sunday. That which was dead...

A lot of that goes to the big debate over the 9th Amendment. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. The 9th has been used to recognize a right of privacy. Justice Scalia and his current proposed...

Go find a list of the states rated in order of median income. Start checking off which states voted Hillary and which voted Donald. The states that came through the recession with a working economy all went Clinton. As income falls, more and more Trump. Thing is some of the states that went...

Seriously? Let's not get deluded. Think about this. If churches met the need how was there the political will to ever pass the social safety net? Americans would have asked why get involved? It's all taken care of. As to the rest. I suggest you do some research before calling someone a liar.

Here's some American history. Why do the social safety net programs exist? Because every time we had an economic crisis the charitable minded and the churches failed to meet the needs. FAILED The churches and the charitably minded often denied aid to minorities because they were racists. Some...

Let's get real. Did the health care proposal look ANYTHING like what the president promised on the campaign trail? He promised, cheaper, cover more, and everyone would be covered. The Ryan plan was going to increase the debt, increase costs, cover less and cover fewer people. It was going to...

Only thing surprising is the willingness to just say pfft that ain't real. Seriously a few years ago there was tracking data based on surveys, arrest data, customs confiscations etc. of what were the most commonly abused drugs in different parts of the world. In most of the developed world it...