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In my opinion each locality should decide through our local government what is right for local public lands, not the feds.

If that’s the way it worked then Christian shrines on public land would be ubiquitous. It’s better to limit the power of government, local or otherwise, even in a democracy, when it comes to minority rights. In some…[Read more]

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Now take a look at GDP growth rate. Notice the correlation between timing of cuts in government expenditure and growth?

No.

1. You cited spending cuts in ranges from 2009 or 2010 to 2013 or 2014, then linked to a chart showing GDP growth as of 2012. You’re implying causality when you failed even to reach correlation.

2. You cited spending…[Read more]

Virgil: In fact the [titular] article cited completely misrepresents 50% unemployment for people under 25, the number of children in poverty and the number of Greeks who have lost their homes as being the fault of the EU.
Gallup: …cite your sources of information which falsify the claims [made in the article].
Virgil: Here’s the source I f…[Read more]

I read everything you wrote and read the article you linked to and watched the videos you linked to. Not one thing you cited backed up the opinion you’re putting forth.

Davis is actually citing sources of information, allowing others to verify that his assertion is true. A group of leading economists wrote an open letter to Merkel pointing out t…[Read more]

Should all crosses be taken down from and off of public buildings?

Yes but a judiciary stocked with Christian apologists will square the circle to ensure that “history” repeats itself no matter what the law says.

Gallup: I’m gratified to see that some legislatures are realizing what is appropriate for a cemetery on public land.
_Robert_: You mean Federal land, I hope.

I mean public land and not just cemeteries either. For instance the legislature of South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from the (public) grounds of the state house today.

And I a…[Read more]

“There are confederate cemeteries all through the South.

Not to put too fine a point on it but there are no Confederate cemeteries.

The Confederacy never existed at all from a legal standpoint. No foreign government ever recognized the Confederacy. The southern states were in rebellion to defend slavery. That’s all.

There are American…[Read more]

“If we are going to ban flags…”

Nobody suggested that we ban flags.

“…of political entities which have committed crimes against humanity, we will be obliged to remove the Stars and Bars of the U.S. and the British Union jack, and all derivations of these. In fact, we will be obliged to destroy almost ever flag ever flown.”

The “political…[Read more]