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That's not always the case. The mainstream media - both the news media and entertainment media more broadly - was extremely accommodative and deferential to the Obama administratio…

The administration's use of legal defensive measures is not itself illegal or prohibited by the Constitution.

Congress' unprecedented barrage of subpoenas force the administration's hand here. You may find it "absurd", but unprecedented animus requires unprecedented defensive measures.

>"Especially considering all the other political reprisals and pardons that are in the news" What news are you talking about? Whatever news you're watching is only giving you one p…

These things you're mentioning are minor issues which have been blown out of proper proportion and context by a hostile media spoon-feeding political propaganda to a willing segmen…

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Just because you don't like the content I post doesn't invalidate it. If you have specific disagreements with the content you should post some comments and I'm sure we can have a r…

Welcome to Europe. European salaries in general are low. Take home pay too, and goods and services are much more expensive. It's important for people to realize this, that "free" h…

I don't disagree with you.

From experience, I recommend a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.

"positive" That's subjective. Something that sounds nice and upliftung may not actually be positive in the long run while something that sounds negative may indeed be necessary. Wh…

Of course the answer is #2. When Obama ran in 2008 and 2012, media, academics and technologists fawned over his campaign's then novel use of technology and Facebook advertising. I …

Unfortunately Facebook and other tech companies have strong incentives to do just that, given the politics of the large majority of their employees and the power they have over inf…

Bloomberg has little organic support compared to the hundreds of millions he is spending. 2016 was clear evidence that money does not buy elections (Clinton outspent Trump 2:1) and…

This was extremely courageous and absolutely the right thing to do. Google has unprecedented control over information and it's important that the public be aware of how that inform…

This is a shortsighted view. Evidence from many other industries with weak property rights contradicts your point. Nigeria's film industry is unable to allocate significant resourc…

Online forums. Salons in 18th and 19th century Europe generally revolved around one or a few wealthy patrons of the salon who not only funded its operations but also attracted the …

What's striking is that DNA from this ghost population comprises up to 19% of the modern DNA of the studied West Africans. For comparison I believe Neanderthal contribution to Euro…

Menstrual blood is pretty gross though. It's not misogynistic to recognize that. Plenty of gender neutral bodily fluids are gross too. Another person's bodily fluids in general are…

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