Month: May 2018

How to run a referendum

If only Brexit had been run like Ireland’s referendum In all the excitement of what happened in Ireland’s referendum on abortion, we should not lose sight of what did not happen. A vote on an emotive subject was not...

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Diane Black Says Porn Causes School Shootings

I’m reasonably sure the ready availability of free pornography leads to a lot of bad sex between consenting adults, but I can’t figure out how it could possibly cause a school shooting, let alone explain why there...

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Conservatives Want Discriminating Coffee Houses

Conservative people get exercised about the strangest things. For example, Megyn Kelly is upset that Starbucks will now formally allow people to sit in their stores even if they are not paying customers, and that they will allow...

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UK Court Ordered GCHQ to Destroy Intelligence

[Cross-posted from European Tribune – where dissent is NOT troll rated!] Secretive court orders GCHQ to destroy stolen documents | Reprieve – April 2015 | The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has today...

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