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A pardon does not mean that the person is innocent, or that he didn’t do what he was convicted of, or that the jury got it wrong. In fact, (I think) a pardon is an act of mercy extended, and one of the conditions of a pardon is that the person excepts his conviction and receives a pardon from the c...

Had Foster shot Perry, his stand-your-ground self-defense claim would have been far less tenuous than the one Perry made. But can you imagine Gov. Abbott coming to his defense? Issuing him a pardon? A Black Lives Matter marcher? Not in a million years. For way, way too many Republicans, political v...

Largest public sector unions. It is AFSCME. I don’t know who is claiming that NEA is larger. AFSCME represents all state employees below grade 13. That is a lot of employees.The teacher’s union is a mixed bag, Baltimore County is AFT, unless they have changed it in the past couple of years. (I was ...

One doesn't need to look to ancient history to explain or justify anything about the war in Gaza. Israel is a modern multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation. Every country on earth has been subject to war and conflict over its history. Israel is no exception. Every so-called Christian nation from th...

From the OP Please keep partisan comments/debates out of this thread - avoid comments that reflect negatively on either right-leaning or left leaning political persuasions. Please keep this thread focused on the topic. It looks like a number of posters have not read the OP lately. Which comments or...

Yiddish is close to/influence by German. PA Dutch, as has been said, is really PA Deutsch. That is, Deutsch is German. So the Yiddish/Deutsch connection is pretty obvious. I can understand both bits of PA Dutch and Yiddish because of my fluency in High German. There's also a lot of Hebrew in Yiddis...

Szdfan, Do you think the NFL should censure for, fire for, punish for, or otherwise disavow what this football player said in his speech? I'm not SZfan, but my opinion is that all employers should give employees pretty wide latitude for what they say on their own time when not representing the orga...

Second: Is it fair to take this as condoning military participation? Where I’m coming from is the assumption that if a man was converted while in the military, his instruction was to not harm anyone. Because he really didn’t have the freedom to quit the military. Now if that assumption is more or l...

NFL “values” Returning to the very simple+direct subject line AND OP, does anyone have anything to add wrt NFL “values”? .. and/or lack thereof. It’s hard to add anything-much to THE BEE pieces. The only thing the NFL values is money. NFL athletes are a diverse lot and what any particular one of th...

It is not just a mortgage document issue. It is COVID relief money fraud, she made a withdrawal from her public pension fund because of claimed loss of income due to COVID. Only there was not any, and it was not true. Should we expect better from those who we entrust with government office? And a l...