“Our responses to hot-button words may be directed more by our groups’ collective opinions, attitudes, and beliefs than by the objective denotations of the words themselves. As a white, middle class, travelled, college educated, suburban, boomer-generation male the first things I associated Trump’s “…”
- KEITH C
“I support school days that start after 7 AM for high school, after 7:30 AM for middle/junior high school, and after 8 AM for grade school and kindergarten. Broad time ranges for school hours can be laid out by each state, but specifics should be decided by local school boards to allow for local popu…”
- KEITH C
“Advocating that the government deny tax exempt status to religious organizations based upon how closely their beliefs agree with current cultural values is the pinnacle of intolerance. It may require more courage than many politicians possess to call out those who support the “proposal,” but the sam…”
- KEITH C
““Should Trump be allowed to ask foreign governments for election aid?” is a meaningless survey question without a great deal more information.
What kind of aid? Existing information, or info that requires the other government to do new investigation as a proxy for the candidate. What are the prece…”
- KEITH C
“I agree with the stated goals of the fairness doctrine, but I remember the broadcast and news environment of the media under the fairness doctrine and I do not believe that it made any difference. In the 1960s, 70s, and 80s (until repeal) the American “MSM“ harbored a distinctly liberal bias in the …”
- KEITH C
“I oppose “mandatory gun buybacks.” They are a joke, a bad joke, no matter what type of gun they are applied to. I also oppose “gun control“ as a solution to “gun violence.“ Violence is a behavior. But when you have as many guns as there are (and increasing) in the US and the per capita murder by gun…”
- KEITH C
“No, based on issues that I have direct knowledge about, the media cannot be trusted either to report truthfully, accurately, or fairly on any yes you about which sides can be taken. A surprising amount of reporting is simply editorializing, with headlines. The New York Times’ reporting of Trump issu…”
- KEITH C
“Frankly, knowledge of the background conditions and context for most of the Countable surveys, honest skepticism about whether the survey issues are the real issues, and critical thinking about the indirect consequences of the suggested actions are glaringly absent from most responses. As in the mov…”
- KEITH C
“No, I do not favor impeaching President Trump.
First, I am against impeaching anyone based on “the most recent headline.” Impeachment is to be taken far more seriously than this. Democrats have been claiming, or inventing, scandal after scandal for the past three years.
Second, those who favor im…”
- KEITH C
“The House of Representatives should support Representative Eliot Engle’s H.R.127 to recognize and support the trilateral agreements between the US, South Korea, and Japan. Especially timely in this era of the strengthening Russia-China-North Korea alliance, and the rift growing between Japan and Sou…”
- KEITH C
“Q: Should women be allowed [to] be topless in public?
A: No, thank you.
An issue that is so shallow that the only intelligent responses are the sarcastic “yes’s” and the serious “no’s”. Insisting that breasts are not “supposed” to be sexually attractive to males is either naïve, willfully stupid,…”
- KEITH C
“A great deal of confusion here. Background checks use gun purchasers’ personal identification to access any records of convictions for crimes and other disqualifying acts, in order to block sales to disqualified people. The purchaser’s identifying info is used only to access those records, is held c…”
- KEITH C
“Homelessness is not a crime, even where it is illegal. We cannot arrest our way out of it. But we CAN deal seriously with a number of factors that make people homeless. In my area that would include (in no particular order) heroin and other drug addictions, alcoholism, anger issues, family rejection…”
- KEITH C
“Much as it pains me to agree with Cory Booker on anything, I support S.2151 which would remove the word “police” from ICE and CBP officers’ equipment identification labels. One huge barrier in the clash between liberals and conservatives in trying to discuss “immigration” is a deliberate lack of cl…”
- KEITH C
“Abortions should be banned after the “fetal” heartbeat is detected. The developing person already has its own, unique, personal DNA. It already responds to sensory inputs. Its heart is already beating. Who are YOU, I, or the baby’s mother to invade his/her first place and kill him/her because he/she…”
- KEITH C
“Bernie Sanders’ “green new deal“ plan is pure fantasy. Add “green“ and “new deal“ to the long list of topics that Bernie Sanders does not understand and is not prepared to intelligently discuss.
P.S. Same comment applies to AOC’s “green new deal.“ Pathetic. If she ever grows up she will be sooo em…”
- KEITH C
““145 Business CEOs“ sounds very important until I remind myself that these people put on their pants one leg at a time just like the rest of us.
It must be irresistibly tempting for business executives to believe that they wield great influence in society. True, they don’t get where they are by be…”
- KEITH C