The comments really show who actually read the article. There are accusations that the books have been banned. The district says they haven't and they are still available in the libraries.

Easy way to solve this, have an independent body go in and see if they are banned and also look at a history of usage to ensure those books were used during the time they say the books were banned.

No sense getting all political and hate-spewing about this. It's sad we've devolved into a society where people form opinions based on incomplete information.

Does it matter in any way to the situation how they feel? The concern of how people feel doesn't justify the invasion and killing of people in those areas and an entire country just because some people want things their way. There are other ways to go about it.

"Now if this doesn't DESCRIBE. what Republicans are associated with I don't know what else will convince you....they want to stay in power no matter what."

Like a major movement to inform the country that "Not my President" and a POTUS candidate who requests that all Dems refuse to accept the results of an election. See, that's the problem and you are a major component of it. Both sides do shady things all the time to stay in power. Heck, Liberals continue to tell people to ignore laws because the people doing so benefit the Dem party. It's really, really sad to see people pointing fingers while ignoring, beyond any doubt and all empirical evidence, that their side does it too...just as much.

The only real question is, are people doing this (from both sides) truly only reading the headlines of news organizations that agree with their narrative (meaning they will never see the bad things their party does so they are just not aware of their party doing wrong), or is it truly that they are consciously ignoring the wrongdoings? Either way, it's still a sad situation in an age where all the information you need is at your fingertips.

"No, labor is not a commodity. Labor is individuals putting their time and energy towards a task. Commodities can't work."

This is a huge illustration of different mindsets. Where Reps feel people are there to benefit society by doing what is needed, Liberals feel people are all individuals who should have no responsibilities towards society as a whole. Neither way is right or wrong, it's just a fantastic illustration. Both mentalities can be abused and are abused by politicians on both sides. Which is why we are in this mess. Until we find compromises in those two mentalities, it will just continue to get worse.

Same as knowing the root problem of immigration and appointing a czar to fix it, and then nothing getting better.

I can't stand seeing this ebb and flow of politics over and over again. Every time a party becomes too extreme, the other party starts getting favor. Then they go too extreme and it goes back the other way. Nobody can stay balanced anymore until they lose and then move towards center to garner votes again. And on and on and on.

None of it should matter to any Liberals on here. According to them, no fraud ever occurs during elections. And that's not just assuming, that's many of you on record stating as such.

"Send them all to Okiehomie! The folks here are all christians, or so they claim, and if so will welcome them, waving guns in their faces ..."

But many Dems, even ones in MV, are on record saying they want them. So why ship them off to those who haven't asked until you've filled the places who HAVE asked? Why would anyone want the government to force people to go anywhere when there are people who have their arms open? Isn't one of the big problems in the Liberal media with DeSantis's bus is that he is the government forcing people? So you are asking to have the same thing done?

How about this, stop pretending that every argument that doesn't meet your narrative is about nothing but what you want it to?

Once you do that, THEN you can have a leg to stand on. Until then, shut up.

Oh God...why?! WHY open up just another narrative that will cause Liberals to be hypocritical later when this kind of legislation hurts them and they whine and cry about it? There are so many examples of both sides becoming hypocritical because something their side did hit them in the face later on. This legislation would have also made Hillary's lawsuits much harder to originate, as well as Romney (although, some judges saw through his crap and didn't fall for it), it definitely would have silenced Gore and his many lawsuits after his loss, and on and on.

It's a dumb move because the people working 4 days are eventually going to start complaining that's too much because they now have to fit 5 days or work into 4. Which, on the surface isn't that big of a deal, but it does mean burn-out occurs because people have to work harder for 4 days. And the people won't accept that extra day off as the balance. They will say that 3rd day off is their right and it should be that way in the first place. So then the 4-day week will become just like the 5-day week today. And in 50-100 years, people will be saying 4 days is too much and it should only be 3. Society is so predictable. None of this is bad though, the bad part is that the ability to easily predict it won't spawn the right strategies to identify the pitfalls/negatives and work to find ways to lessen their impact. Instead, they will let it go uncurtailed and then whine later about it. So that when that fight comes, it will be split down the middle. Again, so predictable.

Of course there are situations in which a 4-day workweek would be good. But, in some of those situations, if you can survive on a 4-day workweek, then it means you don't have enough work for 5 days in the first place, which then begs the question why are you paying people who don't have enough work to do? And then layoffs will start happening well before the large-scale adoption of 4 days. So it's a good premise but the execution won't go nearly like the bleeding hearts want it to.

Time to make volcanos illegal! And start implementing legislation to only allow green volcanos to exist.

"Why weren't Ukrainians given the human trafficking treatment?"

Probably because they were ACTUALLY escaping life and death situations not of their making. What you are saying is that if I make $5m where I live but I could make $10m in another country, that country should let me in and assist me with anything I ever want. Even have them send me for free to rich locations teeming with resources.

The fact Liberals compare a people leaving a country where they don't have everything they want to people leaving a country that is invaded by a major world country using tanks, bombs, etc. to kill them is astounding. And that is generally speaking. There are definitely those who have to escape life and death situations. But it's not 2m in one year alone from select countries.

Absolutely NO difference from this and Lightfoot admitting recently that she doesn't use negative information to influence her legislation process. She only cares about the positive things the people tell her and she is on record and quoted as saying as much so there is no way of denying it.

So...once again we are faced with hypocrisy from the Left. If it's a bad thing for one side, it's bad for the other. Start calling your own people out before others.

"Socialism is just a scare word they trot out to scare the old white people that make up their core voters."

First off, what is so incredibly hilarious about this article and your quote is that the countries touted in this article as people leaving for a better life are Socialist countries. Yet Dems continue to fight for Socialism. In other words, using the word doesn't require any context, the reality and proof are already within the conversation. If someone murders someone close to you, and then someone decides to ship that murderer to another location, the people in that location should already be concerned regardless if anyone uses the word "murder" in their rhetoric to scare people. You don't have to directly tell people to be scared of something when all evidence already proves that something is dangerous. Figured Libs would have been able to figure out that common sense by now. Unless, of course, you are someone who has to have everything spelled out for you like a 2-year-old learning to potty on a toilet.

"That's the hypocritical thing, is that DeSantis and Abbott and other politicians are constantly beating up on places like Cuba and Venezuela because they claim the leaders are so repressive and make the countries dangerous for the people, and yet when the people try to flee, they treat them like s. And they use them as pawns in these stunts," Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) told The Hill.

I love this. Ignoring the blatant hypocrisy that should already be well known to everyone, giving free passage to a rich location full of resources and entitlements is considered treating them like s to Dems. This is just more proof many Liberals have no idea what a hard life and being treated like s actually means. And that is proof-positive evidence of why so many Liberals accept legislation and policy creation/influence by celebrities, rich elites, etc. And that is a good reason not to vote for them. So don't blame anyone else but yourselves if Dems lose a lot of ground in the next few years. Maybe it won't happen. But if it does, just remember this.

Awww...I always have a soft spot for those with low intelligence who can't differentiate between fact and opinion. And those who obviously only read headlines from media outlets that agree with their narrative. If they didn't, they would see "How Dems are trying to destroy Democracy" all over the place, too.

But, keep on making your political decisions based off of opinionated articles that offer very little empirical evidence and only pick and choose current events based on how they can spin them to form an opinionated conclusion. That is really helping our country a lot! Kudos!

Lots of pros and cons to a strong dollar. The biggest pro right now is it will help cool inflation in the country by increasing the price of goods internally. While usually not a good thing, in the face of crazy inflation it helps to lower consumption.

That is why this recession/shrink (it's called different names based on the party you belong to but it's the same thing) is showing great signs that, once the economy stabilizes, we are going to have a lot of years of enormous growth. Of course, that is all predicated on the powers that be not worsening things and getting in their own way.

More fake racism. Not surprised DR put this on the site.

"No, I don't have to give no ID because there ain't no crime been committed,"

That's it, anything that happened after is his fault. In fact, the cops were making it much easier on him from experiences I've had. I was put into a cop car once in my life. They only put me in the car while they investigated the property to make sure nothing was done (I was spray painting some chairs outside in a parking lot and someone didn't like it so they called the cops on me, apparently saying I was putting graffiti all over the place...the cop that first came came in hot and fast with his car). It would have been a LOT easier if he had just asked me for an ID and asked what I was doing, which he only did AFTER they spent a lot of time going inside the property and canvassing the outside. Even after he spoke to me he got upset about the call and we ended up laughing about how stupid it was. But the point is a) the cops didn't seem to do anything bad (at least it's not indicated in the article) and b) they have no idea what crimes, if any, had occurred because they didn't canvass first. The guy could have killed the entire family inside but it sounds like Liberals don't care about that and say that someone should just be able to tell them a name and let them leave because...well, not sure why because that makes no sense whatsoever and my brain doesn't allow me to think stupid.

Also, you can't actually claim any racism here because we haven't seen the numbers of incidents like this across the board to see if it is a rarity or it if happens to everyone. Until you can make factual comparisons, jumping to conclusions only makes you look dumb.

"Whenever I hear those making it say it, all I hear is "I wouldn't have done the right thing if I knew I didn't have to.""

That's the exact fear that Reps have...all forgiveness does is spread that kind of thinking. So, instead of it being a past tense statement, it will now turn into a future tense statement. People will just accept anything and sign anything (one argument Liberals have against people repaying their loans saying kids don't know what they are getting into, so your forgiveness solution is only making that situation worse) because they know the government will pay for it later. And if you don't think that would happen, you haven't lived in America very long.

That's just one small part of the whole pie. There are a lot of considerations that have to be made. But neither side wants to look at all of the considerations. They only want to look at the ones that meet their opinions and disregard anything else, and even start name-calling and demonizing the other side because of the considerations they are ignoring. America has a sad face right now.

"It's unfair to all the people who already died of cancer, if we now start helping people with cancer!
--Republicans"

Um, people with cancer didn't sign a contract saying they accept the terms of cancer and promise to repay whatever the terms are. Wow, if this is the kind of logic Libs use to justify this decision, just wow...amazingly insensitive for one, and doesn't hold any logic at all besides.

"Conservatives would rather we spend tax dollars funding the military, increasing police budgets, and subsidizing billionaires.
Rather than using our tax dollars on universal healthcare and education.
Mostly because they hate the educated and don't trust the medical community anymore."

And this country is what is is BECAUSE of those things (we didn't have them when our country hit its golden ages), so what you are saying is that since it worked in the past, let's not do it in the future. If that makes logical sense to you...just wow. There is every reason to improve what isn't working, no doubt. But don't attack something with incredibly bad reasoning and present a solution that doesn't do anything to get rid of the root cause. Your solutions just put a band-aid on the costs, it doesn't fix the sore.

The fact is that there is a reason why forgiveneness is needed. Start arguing over that and finding solutions if you want to think you are on a high road. Right now, this is not a high road approach. This is more of the same from Dems...trying to find ways that people do not have to be responsible for their own actions so they become more dependent on the party that wants to govern everything for them. Is that right or wrong? That's an opinion and will never have a solution, like abortion. Finding ways to make forgiveness unnecessary, that's something that can be solved if both parties work together. One thing I can guarantee though, it won't ever get solved if both parties are too busy whining and crying about everything the other party does, and thinking everything their own party does is gold (because it's not).

Wow. With all of the policies and procedures that have been enacted in the last 5 years to change curricula by Liberals to "protect" our children, like teaching topics that have little to do with actual brain and education development, basic topics that are being removed or lessened because they are racist, etc...Liberals ignore all of the harm they've done to put Cons on blast for the harm they are doing.

This is just pathetic. Both sides think they know what's best for the children and think schools should only teach certain things or teach things a certain way, and all of this is on record in media outlets of all persuasions, and yet they STILL choose to be hypocrites. I guess it proves one thing, schools do need to change drastically because all of you hypocrites are a result of a system that obviously didn't teach you to be critical thinkers and understand logic, and know that being a hypocrite only makes things worse.

Stupid article. There are a lot of things that can save a lot of lives. If the parties weren't so busy only supporting those things that meet their narrative, the entire situation could be different. But, as it stands, both sides argue about it for votes and not actually what is best for the people.

If saving lives is something you are concerned with, stop just supporting those things that can save lives that match your party's opinions. Otherwise, what you and this article is saying is you only care about saving the lives that can be saved if America is run your way.

This is such a long thread just to argue over whether or not abortion America should be ruled by the federal government or each state should rule themselves.

This is my favorite, "He believes us to be a European Union of nations."

In fact, the US as a Constitutional Republic IS more like the EU Union than the picture Libs have of the US being a federally controlled country. The fact Liberals don't seem to understand this point underscores why they don't understand their arguments are invalid to our laws. Most of the high profile issues Libs have come down directly to the fact that states have their own governments, and that the federal government is only supposed to interfere when it comes to national defense and state conflicts...AS IT SAYS IN THE CONSTITUTION. The point is, your arguments are all summed up to one major root problem. Instead of fighting all of these little battles that get you one step ahead or two steps back, start fighting the root cause and try to change America to a federally-controlled nation because that's what you want. But, just remember, our borders are a form of national defense so if you fight for a federally controlled nation, then you are also fighting to close our borders like those EU nations you love to reference. Also, don't be sad that if you win and we become federally controlled, the pendulum always swings and Reps will be in power sometimes. I could spread hate and say that what Libs really want is a federally controlled nation that only does what Liberals want, but both parties have that same sentiment so it's definitely not just Libs with that kind of communistic tendencies.

Snowden steals documents and makes them public and he is hailed as a hero by the Left. Trump just has documents that he doesn't release to the public, just to try to find ways to stay relevant so his ego isn't hurt, and the Left vilify him.

Can't make this hypocrisy up even in the best fiction.

It's still hilarious to see the party of "Not my President" fighting against a group of people who are inferring Biden is not the President. While the people involved in 1/6 can't be part of this conversation because their actions speak more than anything they could ever say, those who are challenging the results are absolutely no different than Clinton in 2016 creating lawsuits because she lost and encouraging people to not accept Trump as the POTUS. I don't expect anyone here to be objective but, whether you disagree, it doesn't change the logic and it does prove hypocrisy.