Politics

Hello! Michelle Obama for president? I don't see her reading text from prompter.. Regardless she do it, awesome speech. (except "it's the greatest country in the world" etc) Best Regards!

New laws in Texas now allow students to carry guns - and in particular concealed handguns - on all campuses. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36948149 Is this not a bit crazy? Will it scare off potential students from other states and indeed international students? What about the saftey of staff? Armed students does not sound great when it comes to dealing with differnces of opinion - say in relation to grades. What are your thoughts on this?

The US earned the title of the "melting pot", and for a time, we were proud of our heritage of assimilating immigrants into our society and benefiting from the strength it gave us. We understood that a blend, a mixture of peoples, ideologies, and cultures gave us a power few nations at the time had. For-profit media practices simplify issues down to a single point. They need to get their messages across quickly in a way that locks in viewers. It seems to manipulate many people to identify themselves in those single aspects; conservative OR liberal, capitalist OR socialist, but never both, the way it really is. Did the media upend the melting pot? Single ideologies do…

While there may be a number of racist cops, I find it hard to believe that these guys go out to find a 'black man to shoot today". Might a lot of it have to do with the fact that cops are actually scared when they make these stops because EVERYBODY is armed in the US ? As a matter of fact both of the two black victims were carrying. Is America's love of guns at the root of the problem ? A lot of good cops have been included with the bad in the eyes of black America and brought about the BLM movement. I now fear that a lot of decent black Americans will be lumped in with the two jackasses who opened fire on the police in Dallas.

The most wanted, to detain by the all democratic countries, should be now, erdogan... As soon as he lands on European, USA land.. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-coup-latest-news-erdogan-istanbul-judges-removed-from-duty-failed-government-overthrow-a7140661.html "Turkey coup: 2,700 judges removed from duty following failed overthrow attempt" And arrested, some sent e-mails to judges in the European countries prior arrest. (40% from the all 7000 judges @ Turkey) That's nonsense what erdogan is saying about these judges.. that they had links to some ex- imam, on exile in USA for years.. Google translated post of some T…

This question came out of a friend's comments about whether or not the RNC should be allowed to use a song by Queen. Long story short, my friend asserted that a Christian baker should be required to bake a cake for a gay wedding, but Queen should not be required to sell song usage rights to a conservative. His reasoning was that "one you're born with, one you choose". This got me thinking. In the first place, I don't believe it is as simple as "one you're born with, one you choose". My understanding is that there is some evidence for the heritability of both, and both are open questions. It is even possible, based on my limited reading on the topic, that political ori…

What a great come back for a man who did not go for the top position - well done sir... But he does not have a good record with dealing with 'those bloody foreigners'. This is not a joke -- I repeat -- this is not a joke

The revenge of Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is worrying. We have seen this kind of action before throught history - chop off the heads of those who can think for themsevles. Same of the purge of the armed forces. We have seen this before... "More than 1,500 university deans have also been ordered to resign and the licences of 21,000 teachers working at private institutions revoked." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36838347

As if not enough is going on, it appears that there is a coup attempt by the military in Turkey. http://nyti.ms/29E5o4X What has to be taken into consideration is the unusual role the military plays when it comes to ensuring secularism, for example.

Once more we see those celebrating brutally attacked with the promotion of terror and creation of hatred as the primary motivation of terrorist murderers. I cannot begin to imagine the shock and horror of those directly involved nor even those just in the same city; but my heart goes out to them. France - the birthplace of so much that is good and progressive is being recast as a place of callous division, and extreme hatred, but this is not true, will never be true, and the French spirit will not be subverted by violence. I hope that the citizens can remain strong - as they did after the last two, so recent, outrages; and that they continue to refuse to give in to th…

In June the UK will vote on whether to leave the European Union (known to my chagrin as Brexit). My intuition is that this will be bad for science in the UK in particular and Europe in general: collaborations between UK and European institutions will be that little harder, students mobility will be reduced and EU funding for UK universities will be lost. What do you think? Are there any positives to science for leaving. Any negatives i've missed?

To clarify on striker: I'm not being anti-the rights of people to strike, I'm anti the need of anyone to strike - which is to say that civilisation is wrong to exist such that people need to form unions. Housing, healthcare, education and food and beverages should all be free, able to be free because people make the effort to build the correct foundation.

The more I hear about this gorilla getting shot and killed because a 3-year-old was able to climb into the enclosure, the more absurd it seems that it would even be possible for an infant to get in. If an INFANT could get in, then a crazy but agile adult person would have an EASY time getting in there to cause trouble. The zoo seems terribly guilty to not make such a dangerous place less easy to access for anyone. What do you think?

In the wake of Brexit there have been growing calls for London to declare independence from the rest of the UK. I've lived in London for over 10 years and have heard such calls before, but now they seem a little more appealing. If we had a referendum tomorrow I would vote to leave the UK, preferably in favour of the EU. However, i'm aware that this may just be an emotional reaction: also i am not too versed in politics so would like to know some opinions on the matter. Does the idea have potential or is it a non-starter? How would you vote and why?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/25/ohio-anti-abortion-heartbeat-bill-passes-house Although unlikely to become law due to opposition in the other house and the executive - but still a state's legislators feel that they should, de facto, ban abortions in the state. And before we breathe a sigh of relief that the Senate and Governor are more sane and cogniscent of the rights of fifty percent of the population - it seems the reason that the bill will not pass through to law is that it is so unconstitutional that it may harm future attempts to constrain women's right to choose http://www.acluohio.org/archives/press-releases/ohio-house-passes-dange…

If all nations were to be ended, how do you think it should happen?

I apologize to all the European members of the Forum - my country is wrong and we will regret this vote for years to come.

Hey guys, I was reading about Cuba, you know, the little island ruled by a crazy dictator? Anyway, I was wondering if ANY of you think communism is good. I for one really dont think it is.

Hello guys, I wanted to try something. Now this is going to seem a little odd, but I think it would be fun. I would like to try and create a "perfect" government. Now obviously it won't be PERFECT to everyone, but it would do the best to make everyone happy, while also presenting the best possible life for the people ruled under it. I.E. protection, education, good living conditions, etc. Now someone once told me that the best way for deciding on whats good is too come up with that desired outcome, and then create the path to that desired outcome. So to get started, I would like it if we came up with our thoughts of a perfect government, then create "laws" and stuff l…

It breaks my heart seeing what is happening. What is the solution? If the problem arises from this we have no hope of a solution: Disarray http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/95413-who-was-abraham-that-religions-get-named-after-him/page-5#entry924786

Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman and his wife Beth are ending their hit show Dog and Beth: On the Hunt in an attempt to save the bail industry, which is under attack nationwide. http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/dog-bounty-hunter-ending-show-87099 It seems the TV show Dog the Bounty Hunter and Dog and Beth On the Hunt are making conservatives hate the bail industry!!! And conservatives what to kill the bail industry!! Why? Because they say it makes it too easy for the bad guys to get out of jail. The conservatives hate the bail industry!!! That it is too easy for the bad guys to get out of jail.

Hey guys, does anyone of you know some specialist literature about the Latin American political development, especially in the 21st century. Besides some well known classics, i figured out it's harder to find anything than i thought...

I have watched a german comedy show with the topic TTIP. I guess most Europeans do not want a free trade asociation with the USA. Very shocking for me even that in the USA asbestos is not banned!!! Even more they(us food industries and us-farmers) want GMO food exported to Europe thanks this shitty free trade association. Also very shocking for is that in the USA chicken desinfectized with chorid!Yuck! That's illegal here.

This isn't a would-you-vote-for-him thread. Or a Hillary vs Bernie thread. I'd like to discuss what The Sanders Movement would need to do to achieve the real change Sen. Sanders wants. Because it seems obvious that just being nominated, or even elected, just won't be enough. Some experts and polls think Bernie Sanders has a chance to beat any of the Republicans should he get the nomination. If he does, he admits himself he wants a movement on ideas, rather than a personality contest for candidates. So what do you think his movement needs, not only to get him the nomination, but to help him also gain the Presidency, and reduce the amount of obstructionists in Congress?

Here you can discuss various aspects of the current war in eastern Ukraine as well as post news about it. Quite an important thing happened recently - the new PM of the "Donetsk People's Republc", Alexandr Zakharchenko confirmed recently that training camps for terrorists indeed exist in Russia and that 1200 of them are in the process of being trained: Video removed by moderator Besides that, Igor Strelkov (aka. Girkin), the military leader of separatists, resigned from his post of the defence minister of DPR. There are unconfirmed reports of him being wounded. Girkin is a Russian veteran who fought during the war in Bosnia on the Serbian side, with reports…