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He and Kyle Rittenhouse will make a killer(wink, wink!) Republican ticket in 20 years. 

There's some ambiguity in the Rittenhouse case to where a jury found him not guilty. There's none in this case. Abbott is the worst of the worst as a human being in all of US politics.

Yeah, it’s a shame because the case blew up and became just another culture war thing.

     Realizing that Rittenhouse was in fact not guilty as charged really surprised me when it happened because it went hard against type for Atlas. Not a surprise that they reverted to their previous views on the topic once some time had passed.

Garland should receive the same treatment as Peter Navarro if he fails to comply with the subpoena.

The tape of Biden's interview with Robert Hur is not a matter of Executive Privilege.  The people have a right to see their President respond to the questions asked, and they should be able to make up their own mind as to his level of cognitive functioning, given Hur's comments as to not charging Biden due to his forgetfulness.

Biden possessed classified documents he had no right to, and, unlike Trump, he had no power to declassify them.  He did this for decades.  The elements of the crime were met, and the idea that Biden "cooperated with the National Archives and investigators is beside the point; the cooperation was, in Biden's case, decades too late.

The American people are entitled to see this, regardless of the effect it may have on the Presidential election.

Meadows refused to comply with J6 Committee and the same Justice Dept Garland didn't hold Meadows in contempt either

I did (as someone who has turned into a semi-compulsive reader of Ballotpedia's "Population represented by state legislators" page in recent months). I just didn't think it was newsworthy.

Well, there was something like a third of a century where the NY Senate was the only one of the 99 state legislative bodies to change in size.

Around 1881, the Republican party was heavily split into 2 factions. The Half-Breeds were generally more progressive while the Stalwarts were more conservative. However, the Stalwarts were more pro civil rights, so I guess civil rights was seen as a right wing issue then.

From a quick look, if you were born in february 1837 you would be 40 years old in february 1877 and be alive during 12 presidents (Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant), and just one month later you would add number 13 (Hayes).

So here you would hit 10 presidents by the time you are 24 years old.

24 years and 2 days, to be precise if you were born on March 3, 1837 and made it to March 4 1861.

The term "genocide" is thrown around way too loosely by the left these days

Don’t think Nevada was a Dem dummymander. The three Dem seats are based in an urban area and unless that urban area as a whole starts voting Republican regularly, then they’re not in huge danger. There’s not really been any indication that Clark County will start voting Republican. The last Republican to win it in a partisan race was in 2014. Just for reference.

As I said before the way Trump is acting in CRT, he is acting Maga when he is accused of cheating on Melanie Trump

[Same with the Catholic Church, but I'm not as familiar with how strict the RCC is when it comes to degree requirements. But there is already a shortage of priests, at least for most of the West, and I don't see that problem going away soon.]

As mainline Protestant denominations and Roman Catholicism fail to attract as many would-be priests and ministers, MDivs will decline.

A better question would be "Why is there a priest/minister shortage?" for these denominations, and there are plenty of good answers to that question.

Yup. M.Divs are a requirement for (I think) most mainline denominations and the Catholic Church. It's definitely cheaper to become a pastor for a nondenominational one since there are obviously -- for better or worse -- no requirements. And it's the nondenominational churches which are, of course, "growing" (or declining slower, to be more precise) in influence for American Christianity.

One has to wonder if eventually the mainline churches will discard M.Divs as a requirement, or replace it with a church-administered training program, in the future in order to make that vocation more attractive to candidates. Same with the Catholic Church, but I'm not as familiar with how strict the RCC is when it comes to degree requirements. But there is already a shortage of priests, at least for most of the West, and I don't see that problem going away soon.

The European Equilvalent of the Mdiv for the Catholic Church is the Bachelor of Sacred Theology.

The Mdiv was only " added " in the 1960s as Catholic Seminaries became accredited by the protestant dominated seminary acreddiation groups like ATS.

So even if the Catholic Church drops the Mdiv, it will still offer the STB.

And besides, the Vatican mandates at least 6 years of seminary training for all seminaries around the world, so it's regulated from the top.

As mainline Protestant denominations and Roman Catholicism fail to attract as many would-be priests and ministers, MDivs will decline.

A better question would be "Why is there a priest/minister shortage?" for these denominations, and there are plenty of good answers to that question.

Counterpoint : The Overplethora of Priests post WW2 and before Vatican II has never actually been the norm in Catholic life at least. Before the 1940s-1950s, there was always a shortage of priests.

The Republican Party was the party of business from the Civil War onward.  Democrats were more socially conservative in many ways, but the GOP was the business party.