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http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-trump-iranian-soldiers-who-harass-u-s-1473472852-htmlstory.html Days after Iranian sailors harassed an American Navy vessel, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Friday he would have had them “shot out of the...

In this thread: we have serious discussions about the proposed policies of each of the candidates. A candidate's health is not their policy. A candidate's character is not their policy. A candidate stiffing their staff is not their policy. This is about policy. What the candidates propose...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/09/08/inside-the-collapse-of-trumps-d-c-policy-shop/ The Trump campaign built a large policy shop in Washington that has now largely melted away because of neglect, mismanagement and promises of pay that were never honored. Many of the...

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37230/donald-trump-esquire-cover-story-august-2004/ Editor's note: The following story was published in the August 2004 issue of Esquire. During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have been against the Iraq War from the...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/07/donald-trump-said-he-had-a-secret-plan-to-defeat-isis-as-of-now-hes-not-planning-to-use-it/ Well, now we know what Trump's "foolproof" and "absolute" plan for defeating ISIS is — to ask the generals to come up with a plan, quickly...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/opinion/hillary-clinton-gets-gored.html?_r=0 True, there aren’t many efforts to pretend that Donald Trump is a paragon of honesty. But it’s hard to escape the impression that he’s being graded on a curve. If he manages to read from a TelePrompter without going...

Liberal media bias, huh? http://www.vox.com/2016/9/7/12842998/trump-iraq-libya-lie-command-in-chief-forum Later, near the very end of the interview, Trump said that Clinton "made a terrible mistake on Libya." In fact, Trump himself supported the military action in Libya that he now...

EDIT: http://www.christianforums.com/threads/trump-still-completely-clueless.7965101/page-3#post-70124445 Apparently he's not talking about cybersecurity so much as just the whole internet...

If you want to see perhaps the most important difference between Clinton and Trump come January 21st, it pays to examine their policy. Policy proposals largely define what a president wants to do, but it also tells us a lot about how they understand the world. And this is where the single...

...Then how could you ever make the case that it was me who took the money out of your wallet, busted open your kneecap, and left you for dead?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/09/02/hillary_clinton_has_a_quietly_bold_idea_to_stop_drug_price_spikes.html Hillary Clinton already had a plan to lower prescription drug costs. In fact, it was one of the first pieces of her agenda that she rolled out. But following the furor over...

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racism-history 1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused...

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/26/12631962/ghettoside-jill-leovy-black-crime This is the tragedy at the heart of Leovy’s book: While America’s violent crime rate hasplummeted by roughly half since the 1990s, shootings and homicides in many black communities remain astonishingly common. Although...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/08/23/gay-conversion-therapy-ban-upheld-by-9th-circ.htm SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel upheld California's ban on so-called gay conversion therapy for a second time Tuesday, finding that legislation prohibiting licensed counselors from the...

http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/06/29/as-obama-years-draw-to-close-president-and-u-s-seen-favorably-in-europe-and-asia/ Given that I've seen some rumors flying around that nobody really respects Obama, it might be worthwhile to actually check out the evidence. Turns out that our allies in...

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/22/12590380/american-climate-politics This 10-minute video reminds us of something I had actually forgotten: up until about 7 years ago, the debate surrounding climate science was almost rational. Many congressional republicans and many major figures within the...

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/25/12647810/hillary-clinton-speech-alt-right The full transcript is worth reading, but here are a few of my favorite excerpts: The latest shake-up was designed to – quote – "Let Trump be Trump." To do that, he hired Stephen Bannon, the head of a right-wing website...

Anyone wondering why the Clinton email scandal isn't gaining traction? Look to the Clinton Foundation scandal. In the Clinton Foundation "scandal", we have bad intel running on repeat trying to slam a charitable foundation as a slush fund or "sold influence" based on virtually no supporting...

Who lies more, Clinton or Trump? Obviously, sheer numbers are not a 100% surefire indicator of the more dishonest candidate, but it might be an interesting look into it. So let's play a little game here: lie for lie. I'll start by bringing up a substantial Trump lie. Someone else matches it...

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/291700-trump-before-intelligence-briefing-i-dont-trust-intelligence Hours before he is set to receive his first classified intelligence briefing, Donald Trump said he does not trust information coming out of U.S. intelligence agencies and indicated he...