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Texas "child care facilities" prison

samedi 20 mai 2017 à 02:00

Texas will try to negate a court ruling against keeping immigrant children in immigration prison by designating the prisons as "child care facilities".

New president of South Korea

samedi 20 mai 2017 à 02:00

New South Korea Leader Moon Jae-in Willing to Talk to Kim in North.

The new president is a former political prisoner and wants to bring peace to Korea.

Comey

samedi 20 mai 2017 à 02:00

Comey wanted to prosecute Assange and Wikileaks based on a newly invented criterion about his perceptions of a journalist's motives.

I disagree with the author on one point. I maintain that a US government employee's duty of loyalty to the US and its constitution must take precedence over any specific undertaking that the employee has made. That duty can morally require leaking information about injustices of the state. Drake, Manning and Snowden are the true patriots.

The values of most Americans

samedi 20 mai 2017 à 02:00

The troll is the epitome of the values of most Americans. We should not be surprised he got almost enough votes to win the election.

The article assumes that people deserve the consequences of their foolish ways of thinking and acting. I disagree. Even when people are so foolish that they bring disaster on their country, they still don't deserve the disaster.

People get the government their behavior deserves.
People deserve better than that.

Unaffordable dental care

vendredi 19 mai 2017 à 02:00

Many Americans that work full time can't afford the dental work they need.