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• You Think You Know What the Electoral College is About?

  

  Take this quiz for an eye opener. Here's the link: https://www.270towin.com/quiz.php#.WaV7b9GQzIV The electoral college really does none of the things it is... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What is the Difference Between a Republic and a Democracy? (Part I)

  I'm going to start this off in two parts because I want people's opinion on which of these systems embody the following principles? Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Actions Like Charlottesville Should Not Be Condoned.

  

  Taken in Charlottesville, a block from Emancipation Park, by @HouseofRuin The Neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville was not covered by the First or Second Amendment... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Right-Wing Terrorism and Right-Wing Silence on Charlottesville

  The GOP's continuing silence on Charlottesville is defeaning. The President made a false equivalency argument that both the left AND right operate with... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Once Again Penigma Scoops the Mass Media on Who "hacked" the DNC,

  

  The Shingouz: It sort of makes sense since nobody is taking credit for a leak.  It would have to be these crafty little critters from Mézières' and Christin'... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Update to Why I Left the Democratic Party and Went Back to Being Independent.

  I added this to the end of that Post: It was also influential that the Clinton camp (and pretty much everybody) was pointing out that Trump would never win. I... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why I Left the Democratic Party and Went Back to Being Independent.

  

  OK, Hillary Clinton wasn't the only reason, but her candidacy was the final revulsion in a long string of signs that the Democratic party didn't want, or care... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Forgotten Second Amendment Case: Presser v Illinois, 116 U.S. 252, 6 S.Ct....

  This case should be brought into more prominence in the "Second Amendment Scholarship" since it is basically a refutation of the "unorganised militia" silliness. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What If HIllary Clinton Had "won" the 2016 Election?

  

  This is one of those "alternative history" scenarios where you don't have to look too far since Hillary DID win the popular vote with 65,853,516 (48.5% votes) t... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Penigma Reveals the Russian Mastermind Who Led to Trump's"surprise"...

  

  Catherine the Great! Yep, you got that correct, Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy 4th of July to Our Penigma Readers Why the Yankee Pennamite Wars Matter...

  

  Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania (location of the three Yankee Pennamite Wars) Crospey Francis Jasper, 1823-1900 As we celebrate the founding of our nation with... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 1984 - Where Weak is Strong. The Weakest President in My Lifetime

  Yesterday Donald J. Trump again proved he is an amoral, immature, con-man. He lied about a reporter and attacked her. Why? Because she has (along with her... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Second Amendment is a Victim of desuetude--LIVE WITH IT!

  Desuetude is a doctrine that causes statutes, similar legislation or legal principles to lapse and become unenforceable by a long habit of non-enforcement or... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The "When We Hang the Capitalists, They Will Have Sold Us the Rope" Department...

  This is the silly rhetoric which has taken the US right from being anything vaguely "conservative" into the realms of lunatic fringe: “The courts do not have th... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The "When We Hang the Capitalists, They Will Have Sold Us the Rope" Department...

  “if congress keeps going this way, people are looking for 2nd Amendment remedies.” --Sharron Angle, who served as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly fro... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The "When We Hang the Capitalists, They Will Have Sold Us the Rope" Department

  

  OK, this tweet is wrong on many levels. The first one is the believe that somehow the Second Amendment invalidates article III, Section iii of the US... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Danger of the Reality Challenged Right (or "Hey, Mitch" Part 2).

  As if having Donald Trump be president isn't enough to clue people in on that. Anyway, this relates to the Britsh election and Theresa May's flirting with the... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Thoughts on the British Election

  Britain has a hung parliament, which means that neither party really has enough members to make a majority.  The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is now being... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

  I've liked this phrase since I first saw it when I took Latin as a youngster, nearly fifty years ago (definitely over 40 years ago). Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Paris Accord Surprise?

  I am amazed that people are so shocked by Trump quitting the Paris Accord on climate change since it was one issue that was ignored in the Presidential debate... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2017 DEBATE, SOCIETY