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I'm not arguing that she should be pardoned. I couldn't care less. I just disagree with the notion that someone who fraudulently withdrew her own funds from a deferred comp plan and hasn't actually been pardoned for it is the same thing as Abbott pardoning a racist murderer and demonstrates that &q...

Well, of all the convicted criminals in Texas do YOU think that Daniel Perry was most deserving of a pardon? Do you think he was wrongly convicted? Do you think he has shown remorse? It's obviously a political statement. Given that left-wing governors refuse to prosecute left-wing violence and use ...

As a general rule, if you don't have left-wing politics, you'd better fear for your life if you are in a blue city (like Austin) and you find yourself stuck in a violent protest. Democratic and left-wing prosecutors have made it very clear they won't prosecute crimes like fleeing the police, carjac...

Well, a free-for-all open-carry environment will produce these kinds of things... Arbitrary, politically motivated pardon's aren't going to help an already problematic scenario, but many in the USA seem to want this kind of random picking/choosing based on loyalties and other rules of the jungle, ra...

Choose your poison I suppose. Institutional corruption is real for sure, but by and large, I think your institutional assessment is overly cynical (although commonly held on the far right and far left of the political spectrum). That being said, it seems to me that an all-powerful autocrat poses a ...

Some here believe this retired pastor is too partisan... but I'm going to keep linking him because he addresses, through the lens of Jesus and the Bible, the issues that keep coming up on this forum. This recent video very much relates to this question of autocrat vs institutionalist... Here he's co...

Well, Ken, one of the autocrat's appeals is essentially telling people they don't have to think through the kinds of questions you're raising. They have an end in mind (ie no more illegal immigrants in our land anywhere/anytime) but either don't want to think through the means - or - have a bit of a...

Putting aside the political figures discussed or this former pastor's Nov vote choice, I thought his analogy of ambassadorship was very good... I'm not sure what branch of Christianity he comes from, but he almost sounds like an Anabaptist. The ambassador for Christ analogy occupies about the middle...

I guess this isn't related to the OP question... but tangentially related? But why would anyone want to give a president more 'immunity from criminal charges!' when the guy their arguing for isn't in office anymore, but the other guy/president (who they detest and fear and believe is really bad!) is...

Whataboutism... This thread is about Trump & family. And no, Biden doesn't have anything close to the legal bills that Trump has incurred upon himself. Not a good, factual like-for-like comparison, imho. LOL...Chiding those who compare Trump to Biden in the first sentence. Next sentence does ex...