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No-one else has been provoked by evidence that there were systematic intra- and inter-governmental efforts to undermine, discredit, and if possible, remove them in the wake of a free and fair election. The investigations initiated and conducted prior to and after the 2016 election did not come...

Yes. Again: Brexit has had a financial cost. UK's revenue-spending problems go deeper than Brexit. "It's worse than it might otherwise have been by now" is all that can be concluded, but not even that is assured because the GDP shift only affects the revenue. What kind of additional...

"Why is that pretty bird lying there?" "It's dead." "Why is it dead?" "It ate part of a dead rat." "Why did the rat die?" "We poisoned it." There isn't really a unicorns-and-rainbows solution.

Sure. Do you understand the advantages and disadvantages of a bright line? I acknowledge the disadvantage that by definition there's an included side and an excluded side. Every association is made up of individuals. If your worry is that I would prevent people from practicing some aspects...

Appointments and hiring committees certainly don't take the politics out. Rather, they risk concentrating partisan influence. All that you need to control is the committee. Nor is it the case that a committee of professionals should be assumed objective - certainly not if they came up through...

From what I observe in Canada today, the likelihood is greater that someone's going to complain to shut him down if he's Christian, and certainly if it's "he" and he is visibly white. If he has a "protected" ethnicity or belief, there'll be social pressure to leave him alone. In Britain, I can...

It turned out (WW II) that one of the characteristics of effective (useful, perhaps critically necessary) mobilization planning and preparation is to spread things around to keep multiple suppliers in business, and in particular if you have multiple domestic manufacturers, to keep them in...

As I wrote: "figures", not "figure". There's a range of estimates and reported syntheses, not just one.

Rats are surprisingly difficult to control and kill, and some of the usual means are harmful or fatal to other animals.

So there's a line, and all the bigots are discussing is whether it should be a few inches to one side.

I doubt pit fights between roosters or dogs are needed. A ferret doing what it was originally domesticated to do is OK.

I suppose he could be. He's probably not using an amplifier, though, and probably not an organized religion outside the confines of his shirt and pants. Or probably people who are naive. You go on being exquisitely liberal; I'll go on advocating measures to make sure Canada is the kind of...

The ancients knew ways of doing things. People have become too emotionally fragile. Not exposing them to realities of existence is part of what makes people emotionally fragile. A downward spiral.

There are plenty of Democrats who think Trump was illegitimately elected in 2016 and/or 2024. Hillary Clinton is, by her own words, one. The theory that Trump and his supporters are some kind of unique election-deniers doesn't stand up to scrutiny, unfortunately.

The Yanks were pursuing the same thing they were after when they supported the Nationalist Chinese (Chiang) and South Korea (Rhee) - halting the spread of Russian and Communist Chinese expansion. A significant difference between Vietnam and earlier times was the change in composition of the UN...

A pillar of the American system is that government is instituted to protect the rights of people to conduct their lives as they see fit. Not everyone is going to see fit to be an exemplar of beneficial human endeavour. The USA is almost absurdly democratic. Elected executive and vice; elected...

It isn't equal protection; it's a special accommodation. There is no obvious reason Muslims shouldn't experience the same amount of push back on their public expression as Christians. This is like the person in a relationship who wants to see other people, and thinks "and you would be able to...

All the figures that turned up for my quick search are in the range 6% to 8%. "Rounding up" is sometimes OK, even sometimes to the nearest multiple of 10, but not when you're starting with a value in single figures and it distorts the truth by 25 to 65 %. And it's difficult to quantify just...

Words have very specific meanings. It isn't really disputable, which I suppose is why no-one is (so far) bothering to try to explain that it's not dogma. "Well, they're kind of the same." Sure, they're both on the total spectrum of religious expression, somewhere between beatific smile and...

This is on topic. You're just throwing out superlatives: "massively", "spectacularly". Nothing remotely quantifiable or even justifiable by relative comparisons. Haiti is a massively or spectacularly failed nation. The UK is not. Among "its peers" it ranks well in absolute GDP and per...