Judging by that comment, Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn't know what gerrymandering is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering Nor is requiring voter IDs necessarily vote suppression -- if governmen… (View Post)

For many years now, when I read a metaphor, I almost always try to picture it, to see if it makes sense. (A suprisingly large proportion of them don't. And some of the pictures are quite funny.)… (View Post)

Our local monopoly newspaper, the Seattle Times, has a variant on the "keep religion out of the public sphere" position: They try hard to keep Christianity out of the public sphere. (Other … (View Post)

There are advantages in each system, but it has long struck me that America has an advantage from our governors getting tested in executive positions, before they run for the presidency. (I have long… (View Post)

Does this surprise you? 'In an attempt to clean up comments he made this week about “cutting” entitlement programs, former president Donald Trump has vowed in recent days that he would reduce sp… (View Post)