Stable Genius Liberal

Bill O’Reilly says Hillary has an advantage because it’s “open season” on white men

if you’re a Christian or a white man in the USA, it’s open season on you. Therefore, Hillary Clinton has an advantage

Right wing victim mentality in action.

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Rand Paul accidentally proposed legalizing murder

Paul said that in his vision for America, “Any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed.” The problem is that that describes pretty much every law that incarcerates a lot of people in America — the nonviolent drug offenses Paul often rails against, sure, but also violent crimes and property crimes.

For those playing at home, Mr. Paul just called for adjusting the law based on the race of the accused. Let’s see if libertarians call him out on this. My guess is no.

Rand Paul Joins Crowded Field of People Who Will Never Be President – The New Yorker

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, and neurosurgeon Ben Carson are just a few of the men thought to be considering squandering time and money pursuing an office that they will never occupy in a billion years.

Why Is Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law Different From All Other Religious Freedom Laws?

the Indiana law explicitly allows any for-profit business to assert a right to “the free exercise of religion.” The federal RFRA doesn’t contain such language, and neither does any of the state RFRAs except South Carolina’s; in fact, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, explicitly exclude for-profit businesses from the protection of their RFRAs.

Welcome to a world where peices of paper are granted Religious Freedom.

A Strong Welfare State Produces More Entrepreneurs

The mechanism in each case is the same: publicly funded insurance lowers the risk of starting a business, since entrepreneurs needn’t fear financial ruin. (This same logic explains why more forgiving bankruptcy laws are associated with more entrepreneurship.)

Completely sensible argument that leaves me wondering why GEDI statistics seem to show little to no correlation between welfare state expenditures and entrepreneurship. But WMF stats show a correlation between time and cost to start a business and entrepreneurship.

Why I’m pissed off at rednecks like you

responding to even the hint that we might expect you to be a responsible gun-owners with threats to shoot people like me is precisely the issue — you think your guns are a way to solve your problems.

What Conservatives Willfully Ignore When They Cry ‘Tyranny’

One of the regular features of our contemporary political life is conservative complaints about being victims of “government oppression.” You know what I mean: having to pay taxes to help “losers” is an outrage. Having to buy health insurance is tyranny. Not being allowed to discriminate against gay people is a denial of religious liberty. …

The 50th anniversary of the violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, should have served as a graphic reminder of what real “government oppression” looks like: police dogs; fire hoses; truncheons; deputized thugs. An entire state mobilized to deny the rights of free speech and peaceful assembly, in the broader aim of denying the right to vote.

This came to mind after reading some of the polemics directed at the Ferguson protests.

The ‘decline’ of marriage isn’t a problem

If every poor adult in America married another poor adult, in other words, we would see a significant drop in the poverty rate. Nobody’s actual income would have increased, of course, but through the magic of statistics we would achieve a significant win in the war on poverty.

John Kerry Bashes Florida’s Reported Ban On Term Climate Change

Maybe discussion of climate change needs a trigger warning so the climate change deniers can avoid the discussion?