olivertwist wrote: 
Who's got a county's problems to fix?



The median Canadian is twice as rich as the median American. (But their taxes are higher!)

...and his drummer played Yamaha drums.

 R_P wrote: 
Hmm... Who's the happier couple?

 Antigone wrote: 
"we have a car waiting, just let him go in and,...."

 Antigone wrote: 
The "Free Melania" movement begins with a gentle intervention...

alternative facts

 haresfur wrote: 
According to Snopes.com, Time Magazine reporter Zeke Miller quickly tweeted hat he was mistaken about the supposed removal of the MLK bust, apologizing during the second tweet. Thehill.com reported that Miller "sent out more than a dozen tweets correcting the mistake and apologizing" but that Trump still complained publicly about Miller's mistake—“But this is how dishonest the media is”—while speaking to CIA personnel. According to Thehill.com piece, Miller sent out a correcting tweet "within minutes" of his mistaken tweet. 

The second correcting tweet:



Compared to Trump's constant lying and distortion of reality about major issues and policies, this is seriously penny-ante sh**. Trump is going to stroke out from all his whining about even the slightest things. 

 kurtster wrote: 
Agree everyone needs to be extremely careful in what they say these days. But I judge people by how they respond when something they say is found to be wrong, and the Trumpets aren't doing very well on that.

Maybe Trump needs love so badly he'll do the right thing... OK maybe a few right things... and then I woke up.

 Steely_D wrote: 
You are so right.  Here's what is so important to the press ... Time magazine broke this story ...

 Trump immediately replaced MLK’s Oval Office bust with one of a notorious racist

Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain

All hail the liar in chief.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
that's probably true in my voting  lifetime (1978 to today - see below)

and asking people to use logic, reason and evidence in politics to displace fear and ignorance years of political conditioning, manipulation and rhetoric is a tall order

however it is worthy and we've got to start somewhere

just remember that trailblazers and pioneers often suffer the slings and arrows of the faithful

 

Op-ed: Libertarians Have Long Led the Way on Marriage

Libertarian leader David Boaz says his party endorsed marriage equality — and full rights for gays and lesbians — way before Barack and Hillary.

By David Boaz

June 25 2015 4:30 AM EDT

As the Supreme Court prepares for a possibly historic ruling, most of the country now supports gay marriage. Libertarians were there first. Indeed John Podesta, a top adviser to Bill Clinton,  Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton and founder of the Center for American Progress, noted in 2011 that you probably had to have been a libertarian to have supported gay marriage 15 years earlier.

Just seven years ago, in the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton all opposed gay marriage. The Libertarian Party endorsed gay rights with its first platform in 1972 — the same year the Democratic nominee for vice president referred to “queers” in a Chicago speech. In 1976 the Libertarian Party issued a pamphlet calling for an end to antigay laws and endorsing full marriage rights.

That’s no surprise, of course. Libertarians believe in individual rights for all people and equality before the law. Of course they recognized the rights of gay people before socialists, conservatives, or big-government liberals.

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