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Recent content by JohnLocke

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    SXSW Apologizes for Asking U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad to Remove Hijab

    Actually, my error was conflating hajib, which does not obscure the face with burka that does. I do understand the law of the several states, but I admit my understanding of the clothing rituals and strictures of various communities is lacking.
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    Question to any Trump supporters...

    Working as a criminal defense attorney, I had many clients who did not enter the country legally. I got them primarily as part of a public defender project. These clients were charged with assault, battery, robbery, drug possession, DUI, and many other crimes. In addition, many of these...
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    Is it time the Republicans removed Trump from consideration?

    The attorney general of a state will not label a candidate as a Democrat or a Republican (or a Green, Libertarian, etc.) without the consent of that party. However, the refusal by the political party to allow a candidate to be identified as a member of that party does not take that candidate...
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    Question to any Trump supporters...

    I am undecided but there are a few benefits Mr. Trump's presidency may have for me. 1. Mr. Trump is an outsider. It is clear that at least some heavy hitters in the Republican Party are actively against him, e.g. Mitt Romney. Mr. Trump is rather unlikely to "stand with his party." This may...
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    Is it time the Republicans removed Trump from consideration?

    The Attorney General of the several States determines who is on the ballot. Mr. Trump has met the statutory requirements for inclusion on the ballot and thus it would be illegal to remove him therefrom. The Republican party has little to do with such matters other than providing support to the...
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    No freedom of speech in England.

    Do you have a copy of the rules? How do you know that there was an explicit rule against the post? Can you prove that the statement is homophobic? I don't think you can, unless you torture the definition of homophobic into something more akin to "anything that might be construed as...
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    "No" To Condom In Schools

    Why do you care? I assume we can agree that at least some highschool students will have sex, and there's at least a chance that some of those will use a condom, and thereby be better protected against unwanted pregnancy and disease, if provided a condom rather than not. Perhaps sex ed has...
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    SXSW Apologizes for Asking U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad to Remove Hijab

    Don't understand the apology. Determining the identity of a person getting on an airplane is a matter of law. This is not a discriminatory law, it is neutrally and generally applied to all persons who wish to board commercial airliners in this country. Ms. Muhammad was free to make...
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    Planned Parenthood Strikes Back - Sues Libelous Video Makers

    In an ectopic pregnancy to a medical certainty neither the pregnant person nor the baby (in your view) will survive. Is your position so strident that you are willing to sacrifice both on the altar of absolutism? Explain to me how it is moral to kill those two people (in your view) and I would...
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    Should we reconsider the Muslim refugee issue? List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 30 Days

    Conceded, but that doesn't address the issue of what the US or other nations should do. As a refugee I would want to get to as safe a place as possible, and that usually involves moving a distance away from the fighting/oppression. But the US and other nations are not Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani...
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    FoxNews stands up to Trump -- forces him to follow through on boycott threat this time...

    Ok. I'm running for city council and leading in the polls by 12%, a person who was unable to get enough signatures to be listed on the ballot and is running a write-in candidate campaign challenges me to a debate. I decline. Does this mean I'm a chicken? Not necessarily, there's very little...
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    Should we reconsider the Muslim refugee issue? List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 30 Days

    In general, I think it is a bad idea to take in refugees at all. For one thing, refugees can become a persistent problem. Look at the Palestinian refugees around the world. There are entire generations of refugees that have been born and died in refugee camps. I prefer settlement in place...
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    Republican Gov Snyder crawling to Fed to beg for Medicaid

    So someone who wants to incarcerated Gov. Snyder for life or whatever help me out. What, with as much specificity as you can manage, did Gov. Snyder do (or what duty did he have that he failed to do) that makes him responsible for alleged injuries sustained or to be sustained by lead poisoning...
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    Planned Parenthood Strikes Back - Sues Libelous Video Makers

    https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/5014/1936/7155/PPFA_Audited_FS_FY2014.PDF Looking at the audited financial statements of the organization would be a good start. As a practical matter, all costs figures are estimates and how you allocate costs to particular activities is complicated...
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    Planned Parenthood Strikes Back - Sues Libelous Video Makers

    Close but not quite. A non-profit may make revenue is excess of expenses on particular transactions, the requirement is that the organization not make a profit. For example, I create a micro enterprise charity where we loan money to poor people to start small businesses. One year it turns out...
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