Nikki Haley has been praised for bringing compassion and moderation to the abortion debate. What she has been saying though, is fundamentally gaslighting. The problem is that the Republican position on banning abortion is extreme by its nature. To see this, it is important to understand that banning abortion is…

Abortion bans suffer from a number of problems; there are more effective ways to reduce the number of abortions. Birth control The most effective way of reducing the number of abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancies through comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education, and making birth control pills and condoms more accessible…

The majority of adults have a driver’s license. A license is not only needed to drive, but serves as identification that can be used for many purposes. Appropriately, a driver’s license involves a fee, which roughly covers the cost of issuing the license. Many people do not have a driver’s…

Donald Trump’s 2016 election was facilitated by his winning the state of Pennsylvania. Democrats have fared better in subsequent Federal elections. Senator Casey was re-elected with 55.7% of the vote in 2018, but the 2020 Biden victory was much closer: Biden received 50.1% of the vote. In 2022, John Fetterman…

I have read about someone who designed gender neutral cards, replacing K Q and J with gold, silver, and bronze. Another way of doing it with existing cards is for the dealer to announce (before dealing the cards): “God Save the Queen”. This would mean that for that hand, the King and Queen change places in priority, i.e. the card value would be: Ace, Queen, King, etc. This could be done in games such as bridge or poker, more generally any game in which there is a dealer.

The key to radical bans on abortion is that even a fertilized egg in an early stage is a “human life”. What I’d like to show is that the question of whether a foetus is a “human life” is fundamentally a religious concept. This is because it is based on…

We can learn several lessons from the decisive victory by Janet Protosiewicz for the Wisconsin Supreme Court: Democrats win if they make an election a referendum on abortion rights. This can be done for the 2024 presidential election: President Biden is firm on abortion rights and any likely Republican opponent…

Rules requiring U.S. citizens to report their foreign accounts are helpful both to combat money laundering, anti-terrorism, and tax compliance. However, these rules also serve to entrap innocent taxpayers in a way that makes no sense. Also, the overbroad and cumbersome nature of the reporting rules ends up sending more…

People can and will write all kinds of stories about DeSantis, but here I just want to list some facts that folks should keep in mind about him (I’ll correct and update, the list is already quite long, but I am sure many more items should be added): Under his…